? Address: 315 E Elm St, #200, Caldwell, ID 83605-4587 ? Project Director Name: Ted Epperly, MD, DIO, President, and CEO ? Contact Phone Number: 208-954-8745 ? Email Address: tedepperly@fmridaho.org ? Website Address: www.fmridaho.org 1. Name of the Training Program: The Family Medicine Residency of Idaho (FMRI), Caldwell Rural Program 2. Discipline of the Residency Program: Family Medicine 3. Type of application: Expansion 4. Eligible Entity Type: Federally qualified health centers, as defined in section 1905(l)(2)(B) of the Social Security Act [42 U.S.C. 1396d(l)(2)(B)]; FMRI will operate the Residency Program alone. 5. Year Program First Began Training Residents: FMRI 1975, Caldwell 1995 6. Organization Website Address: www.fmridaho.org 7. Brief Overview: The Caldwell Rural Program’s purpose in the community we serve offers significant resident learning opportunities and patient care experiences in rural healthcare which embraces the family medicine model. This model was pioneered in the Northwest in the early 1990's as a means of giving residents a broad, procedurally based, hands-on experience in rural family medicine during residency. The Caldwell Rural Program was the second ACGME (Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education) accredited program of the Family Medicine Residency of Idaho, Inc. (FMRI). FMRI is a 501(c)3, non-profit organization and the Sponsoring Institution for Graduate Medical Education (GME). In 1995, FMRI started the Caldwell Rural Program as a single resident Rural Training Track in Caldwell, Idaho (22 miles west of Boise), located in Canyon County. The Caldwell Rural program has now grown to a 3-3-3 Residency program. Residents spend their first year at the core program located in Boise, Idaho at the Boise Family Medicine Residency and transition to the Caldwell Rural Program for year two and year three. Canyon County, Idaho is growing tremendously and there are not enough primary care providers to ade
quately care for the expanding population. According to RWJ County Health Rankings & Roadmaps, the primary care ratio for Canyon County (location of the Caldwell Rural Program) is 1:3150 with the national 90th percentile of 1:1030 . We know that physicians are more likely to practice close to their area of training. We also know that patients that have a usual source of primary care will have better outcomes. We also know that patients that have a usual source of primary care will have better outcomes. Currently, the Caldwell Rural Program trains three residents per year, and we are requesting an expansion to four residents per year, with the fourth resident being funded through THCGME grant expansion funds. We expect that with this additional resident, we will be able to better serve our community with improved access to care, as well as to increase the services that we already provide. 8. Total resident FTE positions for all post-graduate years of training: 9 (1-2-3-3). FMRI’s Caldwell Rural Program is requesting nine resident FTEs (1-2-3-3) to be funded under this four academic year project. 9. Resident FTE positions for AY 2022-2023: 1 (1-0-0). FMRI’s Caldwell Rural Program will expand the program by one resident FTE, increasing the number from three residents to four residents, beginning in AY 2022-23. 10. Rotation Sites: There are no new hospital rotations for the upcoming academic year.