University of Washington School of Medicine

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University of Washington
School of Medicine
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Type Public
Established1946 (1946) [1]
Parent institution
University of Washington
Accreditation Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education
Dean Tim Dellit
Academic staff
1,800
Students957
Location, ,
U.S.

47°38′56″N122°18′25″W / 47.649°N 122.307°W / 47.649; -122.307
Campus Urban
Website uwmedicine.org/school-of-medicine

The University of Washington School of Medicine is the medical school of the University of Washington, a public research university in Seattle, Washington. According to U.S. News & World Report's 2022 Best Graduate School rankings, University of Washington School of Medicine ranked #1 in the nation for primary care education, and #7 for research.

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The University of Washington School of Medicine is the first public medical school in the states of Washington, Wyoming, Alaska, Montana, and Idaho. The school maintains a network of teaching facilities in more than 100 towns and cities across the five-state region. As part of this "WWAMI" partnership, medical students from Wyoming, Alaska, Montana, and Idaho spend their first year and a half at the University of Wyoming, the University of Alaska Anchorage, Montana State University, or the University of Idaho, respectively. [2] In addition, sixty students in each class are based at Gonzaga University in Spokane, Washington. [3] Preference is given to residents of the WWAMI states.

UW Medicine

The University of Washington Medicine includes the University of Washington School of Medicine, as well as a number of clinical facilities owned and operated by the UW, including the following:

In addition, the University of Washington Medicine shares in the ownership and governance of Children’s University Medical Group and Seattle Cancer Care Alliance, a partnership between the University of Washington Medicine, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, and Seattle Children's.

History

The school was founded in 1946 as the 76th medical school in the country and is a leader in primary care, family medicine, biomedical research, experimental therapy, clinical treatments, and academic medicine.[ citation needed ]

In May 2013, it was announced that UW Medicine and PeaceHealth were coming together in a "strategic affiliation." The American Civil Liberties Union criticized the merger as PeaceHealth is "directed by the Catholic Ethical and Religious Directives" and UW Medicine is taxpayer-funded. [4]

In 2023, the University of Washington School of Medicine announced that it, along with other medical schools such as Harvard Medical School, the Vagelos College of Physicians and Surgeons at Columbia, the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania, and Stanford Medical School, would no longer contribute data to the U.S. News & World Report for medical school rankings. [5]

In November 2023, Tim Dellit was named CEO of UW Medicine. [6]

WWAMI

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WWAMI is an acronym for Washington, Wyoming, Alaska, Montana, Idaho. The WWAMI program is a collection of states and universities that have agreed to a collaboration of facilities, people, and funding to enhance the region's access to education. The University of Washington WWAMI program is set in six cities across the five-state region; the institutional partners and class size of each campus is listed below. Each campus is supported both by the University of Washington and the partner institution. During the clinical phase of the curriculum, years three and four, clinical sites are found within all five WWAMI states and students from each campus have the opportunity to rotate throughout the region.

University of Washington WWAMI Sites
StateCampusPartner InstitutionClass Size
Washington Seattle University of Washington 100
Spokane Gonzaga University 60
Wyoming Laramie University of Wyoming 20
Alaska Anchorage University of Alaska Anchorage 25
Montana Bozeman Montana State University 30
Idaho Moscow University of Idaho 40

Notable alumni

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