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The United States Public Health Service is sponsoring an Award for Excellence in Public Health for 4th year+ (2024 graduating students). This award is intended to recognize UWSOM medical student for their continued commitment and dedication to service learning and public health over the course of their medical school career. If you would like to self-nominate for this award, please fill in this Microsoft Form. Due date for...

A message from your career advisors: Please schedule a 4th Year Career Planning Appointment anytime from October to December 2023. Before we meet please carefully read the information and resources below and plan to spend a minimum of 90 minutes on your preparation steps.  If you have experienced any of the following challenges, please schedule your 4th Year Career Planning appointment October-November. Foundations course fail(s)  Step 1 or Step 2CK fail. Low Step 1...

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Transition to Residency will be held May 13 – 23, 2024.  The Physicians Oath and Hooding will be in Seattle, on Friday, May 24, 2024.  The week or two leading up to this culmination of your medical school experience is usually filled with wonderful celebrations from different campuses, tracks, pathways and with each other.  More information to come on the specifics later. You will be...

Contracts have been signed and we are excited to announce the dates for some key 2024 events! Note that individual venue policies and public health rules will continue to determine things like masking, capacity limits, and required health screenings/vaccination requirements. We will monitor public health guidelines and venue policies, and will update you closer to the respective event dates. 2024 Residency Match Dates Mid-December 2023: Military match February...

The UWSOM chapter of Alpha Omega Alpha (AOA) elected senior AOA members on Monday. Students were selected using a process that incorporates clerkship grades, feedback from peers, college mentors and clerkship directors in addition to lived experience statements and information about service and scholarly efforts. The students’ names were de-identified during the election process. The top 25 percent of the class is eligible to be...

This summer, a group of Montana WWAMI medical students embarked on an international health project 6,000 miles from home. Montana WWAMI students MS2 Haley Rogers, MS2 Daniel Gray, MS4 Nathaniel Sisson, and MS4 Jenna Starke spent a month in Northern Mongolia, joined by peers from the Mongolian National University of Medical Sciences (MNUMS), a resident doctor, and BioRegions International employees. Their united goal: To enhance patient...

The University of Washington’s Network of Underrepresented Residents & Fellows (UW NURF) and Office of Graduate Medical Education (GME) cordially invites URM students and/or allies to participate in its two-hour Virtual Diversity Recruitment Town Hall. When: Tuesday, Aug. 29, 2023 Time: 5 p.m. AK, 6 p.m. PT, 7 p.m. MT This event welcomes prospective applicants from underrepresented/disadvantaged backgrounds and allies with the goal to introduce them to...

A group of UW medical education researchers would like to interview fourth-year UWSOM medical students who are the first in their family to graduate college (FiF), about their noncurricular activities. Subjects would participate in an hourlong interview in person or over a video call. Participants will receive a $50 gift card.  If you are interested in participating in this study, please sign up at this link: https://forms.gle/wZXnU6Njzt8bmtju6. For...

The deadline is Nov. 15, 2023, to apply for the Post-Sophomore Fellowship through the UWSOM Department of Laboratory Medicine & Pathology. There are up to two spots for eligible UWSOM medical students to take a year out of medical school and spend the year like a PGY1 pathology resident at the University of Washington. If you want to learn more about the program, visit the...