An interstate consortium sponsors emergency medical training programs, purchases equipment, and arranges reciprocal certification in a 31-county area of Maryland, Pennsylvania, and West Virginia. (Author/JC)

The regionalization of the University of Washington Medical School represents a beginning in addressing the problem of maldistribution of physician manpower in the states concerned-Washington, Alaska, Montana, Idaho (WAMI). The WAMI experiment uses the faculties and facilities available in the universities of these states to teach first year…

Newborn screening and genetic technologies are expanding and changing rapidly, increasing the demand for genetic specialty services. Because of the scarcity and geographic maldistribution of genetic specialty services, access to these services is a critical issue. This article discusses some of the efforts initiated by the Maternal and Child…

In an effort to make the geographic distribution of physicians closer to the distribution of the population as a whole, in 1971 the states of Washington, Alaska, Montana, and Idaho (WAMI) established the WAMI Program. The results of the first seven years of the program are described. (Author/MLW)