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 Seventh-graders visit ICOM
More than 40 students from Meridian Middle School and Lake Hazel Middle School learned about becoming physicians at the Idaho College of Osteopathic Medicine - Idaho's first medical school -
on Dec. 12
, 2018.
The group of seventh-graders had the opportunity to tour the campus, witness a simulation scenario on a high-fidelity manikin, and learn about osteopathic medicine.
As the first medical school in the state, ICOM is committed to community outreach, such as K-12 tours, to encourage young students to pursue careers in medicine.
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IPE between ICOM, ISU to elevate healthcare in Idaho
The collab
oration and expertise arising from two higher education titans in Idaho is expected to elevate patient care in the Gem State.The public-private partnership between Idaho State University and the Idaho College of Osteopathic Medicine (ICOM), Idaho's first medical school, has allowed for interprofessional education- also known as IPE - between student doctors and students studying oth
er professions in health care.
This inter-institution initiative encompasses not only ICOM and ISU-Meridian, but also ISU'
s campuses in Pocatello and Anchorage. ICOM
's state-of-the-art facility hosts the group of 332 students, both physically and through distance learning, during eight sessions throughout the year. Before beginning clinical rotations at various hospital systems during their third year of study, ICOM students will have had 16 IPE experiences. Click here for more info
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Our vision is to be the recognized advocate for rural health issues in Idaho.
Our mission is to provide leadership on issues related to rural health in Idaho through advocacy, communication, and education.
The IRHA represents a variety of individuals and organizations who are committed to the health and welfare of rural Idahoans. IRHA has a diverse membership, consisting of physicians, nurses, nutritionists, health care administrators, public health officials, government officials, researchers, educators, students, private individuals, and other health care professionals.
Member Benefits
- Subscription to quarterly newsletter focused on IRHA interests
- Access to "hot topic" policy issues and other resources on IRHA website
- Opportunities to network online and in person with colleagues
- Free attendance at Legislative Breakfast each February in Boise
- Free attendance at Annual Meeting and Awards Reception in November
- Discounted registration at IRHA conference and other events
- Help promoting a rural forum or health fair in your community
- NRHA action and media alerts with legislative and regulatory information
How do I become a member?
To become a member of the IRHA, please use our online membership application. The IRHA accepts individual, student and organizational memberships. IRHA memberships are for one full year. The year starts when dues are received & ends one full year from this date.
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Idaho to be showcased on 3RNet
February 4 -10, Idaho will be showcased on the front page of the Rural Recruitment and Retention Network (3RNet) as their Featured Member. As part of the showcase, three specific jobs in rural Idaho will be promoted.
3RNet gets about 2,000 visitors to the site each week seeking healthcare jobs in rural areas. This is an excellent opportunity for Idaho employers to list their current vacancies now while our great state is being showcased!
Please go to
www.3rnet.org
to sign up and post your current job opportunities for free!
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ISU AHEC hires new director
Idaho State University's Kasiska Division of Health Sciences is pleased to welcome Rylee O'Neill as the new director of Southeast Idaho AHEC. As an ISU alumna and former social worker at the Idaho State Veterans Home and other Pocatello agencies, she brings a wealth of knowledge and experience pertaining to health needs in southeast Idaho.
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Free community hearing screenings at Idaho State
University - Meridian to begin Feb. 21
MERIDIAN-Get your hearing checked for free at a series of screenings starting Thursday, Feb. 21, 3-6 p.m., at the Speech and Language Clinic at Idaho State University-Meridian,
1311 E. Central Drive
.
Free screenings are also set for March 7 and April 11. Hours are 3-6 p.m. No appointment is necessary, and clinicians will see adults, teens and children as young as 3 years old.
Speech-language pathology graduate students, under the supervision of licensed speech-language pathologists, will conduct the screenings.
Participants will receive their results immediately, including referrals if further evaluation is needed, according to organizers.
For more information, call 208-373-1725. Click here for the full story
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Idaho State University's (ISU) Department of Counseling received the very first Association for Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender Issues in Counseling (ALGBTIC) 2018 Conference Award. The newly created ALGBTIC award is presented biennially to a counseling program that has demonstrated a commitment to the promotion of LGBTQQIA+ awareness and affirmation.
ALGBTIC introduced five new awards at this year's conference. In a letter recognizing the ISU Counseling Department as the first recipient of the new Association for Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender Issues in Counseling award, ALGBTIC President Jared Rose said, "We are very pleased to also share that these new awards, while created initially for our 2018 Conference, have also recently been approved by the ALGBTIC Board of Directors as ongoing, biennial awards. As such, while this will be the inaugural year for the awards, they will be continued as part of ALGBTIC's ongoing mission and conference efforts."
ISU faculty members Dr. Kristen Lister, Dr. Randy Astramovich and Dr. Christian Chan accepted the award at the organization's 2018 conference, held in Portland, Oregon in early September. Master student Dianne Piggott also attended the conference. The annual conference focuses on counseling professionals' social justice and advocacy efforts for LGBTQQIA+. This year's conference theme was "Actions are louder than Words."
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ISU to offer Clinical Psychopharmacology Program in Fall 2019
In order to meet the demand for mental health professionals in Idaho, where there is a shortage in 100% of counties, ISU's College of Pharmacy worked with legislators and the State Board of Education to begin offering a Clinical Psychopharmacology program. With this program, Idaho will be one of just 5 states to offer practicing clinical psychologists an additional two years of pharmacotherapy training. After completing this training and a provisional certification period, they will then be able to prescribe mental health medications to their patients. Approved by the State Board of Education in December, the program will begin in the fall of 2019 and will be house within the College of Pharmacy at ISU-Meridian. A director has been hired and faculty are currently being sought.
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Free flu shots & basic physical exams offered at ISU/Ada
County Health Screenings in Feb. & April
MERIDIAN-Free flu shots, basic physical and dental exams, and onsite testing for blood sugar levels and cholesterol are included in free services offered at two community health screenings in the Treasure Valley in the coming months.
The first is Feb. 14 at First Baptist Church, 607 N. 13th St, Boise and the second is April 11 at Snake River Elementary School, 500 Stampede Drive, Nampa.
Times for both locations are 4 - 7 pm.
The screenings are for adults with no insurance or limited access to preventive health care. The Idaho Foodbank will provide free boxes of food for participants.
Services include:
● Blood pressure checks, medication reviews and disease education
● Oral/dental health evaluation and education
● Depression and alcohol screenings and questionnaires
● On-site testing for blood sugar levels, cholesterol, HIV and hepatitis C
● Hearing and eye screenings
● Nutrition assessments and recommendations
● Health education
● Traumatic brain injury screenings
For more information, call 373-1700 or email
healthyU@isu.edu
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The Family Medicine Residency Program at Idaho State University (ISU) has been working to address the shortage of primary care physicians in Idaho as there is a dire need for these physicians in Idaho, especially in the rural areas of the state. In early 2018, ISU proposed a new rural residency track, allowing a resident to spend his or her first year at the base site in Pocatello, and then move on to spend their last two years in Rexburg.
In October 2018, the Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education (ACGME) Residency Review Committee approved accreditation for a residency spot in Rexburg, in order to boost the number of rural physicians training in the state. ISU hopes to add a second spot in the next few years. ISU also secured funding from the State Board of Education and the Idaho Legislature to cover 30 percent of the costs associated with training a Rexburg Rural Training Track (RTT) resident.
One new resident will start the RTT in June of 2019 with their first year in Pocatello and years two and three at Fall River Family Medicine and Urgent Care in Rexburg. The ISU Family Medicine Residency program has other plans for expansion over the next 10 years, including adding a second rural residency program and expanding the base ISU Family Medicine Residency by two seats.
Click here to read the full story.
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ISU Counseling Department Receives National Award
Idaho State University's (ISU) Department of Counseling received the very first Association for Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender Issues in Counseling (ALGBTIC) 2018 Conference Award. The newly created ALGBTIC award is presented biennially to a counseling program that has demonstrated a commitment to the promotion of LGBTQQIA+ awareness and affirmation.
ALGBTIC introduced five new awards at this year's conference. In a letter recognizing the ISU Counseling Department as the first recipient of the new Association for Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender Issues in Counseling award, ALGBTIC President Jared Rose said, "We are very pleased to also share that these new awards, while created initially for our 2018 Conference, have also recently been approved by the ALGBTIC Board of Directors as ongoing, biennial awards. As such, while this will be the inaugural year for the awards, they will be continued as part of ALGBTIC's ongoing mission and conference efforts."
ISU faculty members Dr. Kristen Lister, Dr. Randy Astramovich and Dr. Christian Chan accep
ted the award at the organization's 2018 conference, held in Portland, Oregon in early September. Master student Dianne Piggott also attended the conference. The annual conference focuses on counseling professionals' social justice and advocacy efforts for LGBTQQIA+. This year's conference theme was "Actions are louder than Words."
Click here to read the full article
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North Idaho QPR Gatekeeper Training
Sponsored by Pacific Source Health Plans
When: March 13, 2019 from 2:00 pm - 4:00 pm (PDT)
Where: Kootenai Health Tamarack Conference Room
2003 Kootenai Health Way
Coeur d'Alene, ID 83814
Just as people trained in CPR and the Heimlich Maneuver help save thousands of lives each year, people trained in QPR learn how to recognize the warning signs of a suicide crisis and how to question, persuade, and refer someone to help. As someone who may be in the best possible position to prevent suicide, you will find that QPR is designed to help you help someone who may be considering suicide.
Click here for more information and register.
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Southeast Idaho Peer Support Connection Conference
When: March 15-16, 2019
Where: Idaho State University, Pocatello, Idaho
Details:
Registration is $35 and includes meals. Deadline to register is Tuesday, March 12th.
Join the Idaho Peer Support Association and Empower Idaho
on Friday and Saturday March 15th and 16th in Pocatello, Idaho for the Southeast Idaho Peer Support Connection Conference! The conference will be held in the Student Union Building at Idaho State University
. Learn more and register on the
Conference Event Page. This will be a great way for CPSS's, CFSP's, and CRC's to meet their annual continuing education requirements for certification as well as meet and network with colleagues working in behavioral health services. The North Idaho Conference will occur April 5th and 6th in Coeur d'Alene, Idaho. The Southwest Idaho Conference will occur June 7th and 8th in Boise, Idaho.
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ECHO Idaho: Taking on Healthcare Challenges
ECHO Idaho: Taking on Healthcare Challenges
Idaho has many experienced, dedicated healthcare practitioners committed to patient care. But with one of the nation's lowest rates of physicians per capita, and a pronounced lack of specialty care providers, Idaho's remote and underserved communities face daunting challenges - rapidly escalating rates of opioid abuse and heroin possession and a 50 percent increase in age adjusted mortality from 2008 to 2015 among them.
Project ECHO (Extension for Community Healthcare Outcomes), an innovative healthcare outreach program offered through the Idaho WWAMI program at U of I, aims to tackle that problem. The heart of the program's model is its knowledge-sharing networks, led by expert teams of specialists who conduct bi-weekly video-conferencing training sessions with community providers in far-flung areas to teach and discuss healthcare issues and approaches. Participants include primary care doctors, nurse practitioners, pharmacists, registered nurses, social workers, health professions students and more - a broad range of medical and behavioral health professionals eager to learn and apply specialist expertise to improve health and save lives in their communities.
ECHO Idaho currently offers two educational tracks:
Opioid Addiction and Treatment focuses on topics related to treating pain and opioid use disorder and
Behavioral Health in Primary Care addresses best practices for treating common mental health conditions. Sessions are free to join and participants earn free continuing medical education credit, learn best practices across disciplines, and get feedback on difficult patient cases. Opioid Addiction and Treatment sessions are held on the 2
nd and 4
th Thursday of each month from 12:15-1:15 pm MT, and
2019 lecture topics can be viewed here. Behavioral Health in Primary Care sessions are held on the 1
st and 3
rd Wednesday of each month from Noon - 1:00pm MT, and
2019 lecture topics can be viewed here. Learn more, view recordings of past sessions, and sign up to participate in either program at
www.uidaho.edu/echo. Those with questions can contact Lachelle Smith at echoidaho@uidaho.edu or 208-364-4698.
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