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Note for MS1s and other students in Puget Sound: COVID-19 vaccine booster required at UW Medicine Seattle sites (UWMC, Harborview, Northwest Hospital) UW Medicine facilities require that students have a documented COVID booster. If you have not yet received a COVID booster, you must get a booster before you will be allowed to do clinical work at a UW Medicine facility. This includes clerkships, shadowing, preceptorships,...

UW alumni have provided stethoscopes to entering students to celebrate the start of their clinical career and the bond they will have with patients. Hear what some students had to say.

ICYMI Don’t purchase AMBOSS yet A message from Dr. Heather McPhillips, associate dean for curriculum: You all may be hearing about the many third-party resources available for medical students to make purchases.  As part of your next block, I&I, you will be required to purchase AMBOSS which is a popular Q-bank and learning resource. DO NOT PURCHASE AMBOSS YET! Prior to the I&I block, we will...

If you need testing and/or other accommodations for medical school, contact the UW Disability Resources for Students (DRS) office now. All accommodations are processed through UW DRS, irrespective of your Foundations site. Review and approval of the accommodations application takes four to six weeks before accommodations can be implemented by the UW School of Medicine. Contact UW DRS as soon as possible to begin this process.  

As you get ready to start the school year in the coming weeks, UWSOM wants to make sure that you have the technology you need, as well as an orientation to the different software and systems you’ll need to use. In the time before you start Orientation at your Foundations site, we’re asking you to spend three to four hours going through required materials on our Technology Orientation Canvas...

Pre-orientation items This is a reminder to complete all of your pre-orientation checklist items prior to starting orientation at your Foundations site. Please be sure to complete the following documents and upload them to the secured forms provided: Consent to Release Records form UW Medicine Publicity Release form UWSOM Photo Release form E22 Biographical and Career Preference Longitudinal Survey: In addition to the pre-orientation items, you should have received a link from somevals@uw.edu to...