In 2024, we introduced you to Sydney “Syd” Sattler, then a PhD candidate in the Abitua Lab in UW’s Department of Genome Sciences, as the first UW recipient of the Shurl and Kay Curci Foundation PhD Fellowship. At the time, she was just beginning to chase a question about how immune cells decide what to […]
The landscape stopped Mikayla Bullman in her tracks not because it was foreign, but because it wasn’t. Rolling grassland, wide sky, communities scattered far from the nearest hospital. “Rural Montana is not all that different,” she would later reflect. “The landscape even looks the same.” This summer, Bullman and fellow Montana WWAMI second-year Lucy Corbett […]
Michael Martin grew up in the Seattle area with two things in mind: get to medical school, and get there by way of a smaller Jesuit college away from home. He found that at Gonzaga University, where he is pursuing a biochemistry degree. What he did not expect was how much the research itself would […]
For Roger Turcotte, MD, the path to medicine ran through Idaho and back again. An Idaho native set on returning home to practice primary care, he made WWAMI his first choice for medical school. “As an Idahoan, I was committed to coming back to Idaho and I was interested in primary care, so WWAMI was […]
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In this issue: ICYMI: Annual Infection Control Training Due August 10 Annual Infection Control Training Due August 10 All matriculated UWSOM students, including those on leave of absence and MSTP students in graduate school, must complete the annual Infection Control Training by August 10, 2026. To complete the requirement, log in to Canvas using […]
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For Alaska WWAMI medical student Mauri Butzke, arriving at her TRUST community in Kodiak was more than the start of a clinical placement, it was her first lesson in rural medicine. Reaching Kodiak required a six-hour drive from Anchorage to Homer, followed by a 14.5-hour journey aboard the Tustumena, part of the Alaska Marine Highway […]
The Idaho WWAMI program recently welcomed its newest cohort of Targeted Rural Underserved Track (TRUST) scholars during a special luncheon held on the first day of orientation, marking the beginning of their medical education journey. The TRUST program prepares future physicians to serve rural and underserved communities by fostering meaningful, long-term connections throughout medical school. […]
