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Name: Katrina Dank, MS2, Seattle Project: Creating a picture book to increase cancer knowledge in Uganda Cancer Institute’s pediatric population. Background: The Uganda Cancer Institute (UCI) is the only public cancer-specific treatment facility in Uganda, a country with one of the highest incidences of pediatric cancer in the world. UCI’s educational materials and outreach division use text-heavy materials catered to adult audiences. Additionally, providers at UCI...

Name: Hyrum Hopkin, MS2, Wyoming Title: Improving Healthcare Workers' Mental Health in a Wyoming Community Background: "The Rural and Underserved Opportunities Program (RUOP) gives the unique opportunity of coming to a town and meeting with the people and learning about the distinctive challenges they face. The challenge I chose to address in one community was mental health among healthcare workers." "Wyoming has one of the largest proportions...

Name: Roan Willson, MS2, Alaska Project: Orthopedic Injury Patterns in Intimate Partner Violence; Defensive Wounds and Upper Extremity Fracture Patterns in Survivors: A Literature Review. Background: There are screening methods to identify Intimate Partner Violence (IPV), but they have their limits. "Intimate partner violence (IPV) is an ongoing epidemic within the U.S. despite implementations of universal screening by the U.S. Preventativee Services Task Force." Willson said....

Name: Cara Chapman, MS2, Alaska Title: Promoting Healthy Living Habits through Community Events in Galena, Alaska The project: Galena, population of 475, is the largest city in the Yukon–Koyukuk Census Area. That’s the largest county or county equivalent in the nation – about the same size as the entire state of Montana. It’s also the least densely populated of any county or county equivalent in the...

Name: Erica Crittendon Status: MS3, Seattle Title: Internalized HIV stigma compromises retention in care amongst people living with HIV in Umlazi, South Africa. Erica Crittendon’s presentation of her research took a fascinating turn when she was interviewed by an hiv.gov representative after her poster session at the International AIDS Society’s (AIS) conference in Brisbane, Australia. The study found that people who had demonstrated internalized stigma had a...

Name: Caleb Allred Status: MS3, Idaho Project title: Implementation of an Outbound Scheduling Team Reduced the Referral Lag Disparity in Pediatric Otolaryngology. The challenge: A hospital otolaryngology department recognized that patients preferring to receive care in a language other than English had longer delays in scheduling with otolaryngology. Prior to the scheduling intervention, patients speaking a language other than English were found to have a scheduling day of...

A BIPOC Orientation Event that aims to foster community and collaboration between BIPOC affinity groups will be held at noon Monday, Sept. 18, at South Campus Center Room 224 on the UW Seattle campus. Meanwhile, the group is planning to host Zoom sessions that everyone in WWAMI can attend; those are planned for Oct. 16 and Nov. 17, 2023, starting at 6 p.m. AK, 7...

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...

Here's how an Alaska public radio station opens its profile of two students: Most medical students spend their first two years with a textbook – or several. But this summer, Courtney Stage and Michael Kaden - Hoffmann are working in rural community health as part of ‘RUOP,’ or the Rural, Underserved Opportunities Program through the University of Washington School of Medicine. Learn more on the radio...

Scott Smith, M.D., (Idaho WWAMI '76) and Paula Carvalho, M.D., (Idaho WWAMI '84) are both involved in training refugees whose careers in medicine were interrupted by war, violence, etc. Boise is one of the most refugee-friendly communities in the United States. In 2022, Idaho was home to approximately 1,200 refugees, with 800 of them settling in Boise, finding refuge and a fresh start in the...