BOISE — Idaho officials may look to tap a new rural hospital fund created in the “One Big Beautiful Bill Act” passed by Congress to increase medical training in the state.

The Idaho Medical Education Working Group — made up of legislators and medical field stakeholders — is looking to craft legislative recommendations to enhance medical education in the state and address its significant physician shortage, the Idaho Capital Sun previously reported. At the group’s meeting Monday, members discussed potentially leveraging a new tool, created by the massive federal tax and spending law, to improve opportunities for graduate medical education in rural health centers.

Those rural health systems and other small ones may also be facing more significant challenges due to the major spending reduct

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