Wyoming

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...

Hanna Prakash Ahuja, MS2, Wyoming Title: Addressing The Increasing Signs of Fatigue Post-Pandemic: A Physical Or Mental Exhaustion? Summary: "In the Summer of 2022, I completed my Rural Underserved Opportunity Program (RUOP) at Sweetwater Memorial Hospital in Rock Springs, Wyoming with Melinda Poyer, D.D., at Rock Springs Family Practice. I am glad to also have the opportunity to present my RUOP project at the 2023 Western...

Tristan Bohlman, MS2, Wyoming The challenge: Sundance is a rural town in Crook County, Wyoming. With only one county hospital over 2,865 square miles, many individuals are over 30 miles from the nearest hospital. The distance and time it takes to reach emergency care is an area of concern for many of the 7,584 people making up the county. After speaking with a number of...

Wyoming MS3 Taylor Kennedy briefly took the helm of the Wyoming Senate last week, above, but as you might expect, the legislature convened under its customary circumstances. Lawmakers applauded the visitors and selected Rob Monger, M.D. assistant clinical dean, Wyoming WWAMI, as official "Doc of the Day."  You can watch the brief ceremony during the Legislature's online record, available on YouTube here. Below, the group includes...

Wyoming WWAMI celebrated its 25th anniversary during the Wyoming Medical Society Annual Meeting in Laramie this Fall. The Black-Tie Gala attracted a number of faculty, staff and alumni from over the years. In the photo above, you'll spot; back row, from left to right, Robert Monger, M.D., current Clinical Dean for Wyoming; Matt McEchron, Ph.D., former Foundations Director/Dean; Brant Schumacker, DVM, current Foundations Dean and...

The Casper Star Tribune has shared a guess editorial from the MS2s of Wyoming. The students call for expansion of Medicaid: "Expanding Medicaid, like joining the WWAMI program, is an opportunity that the state of Wyoming cannot afford to pass up. The health and wellbeing of our communities are at stake." Read the whole guest editorial here.

Two University of Wyoming WWAMI Medical Education Program faculty members recently were recognized for their dedication to student learning. Dana Govaerts, M.D., left, a clinical assistant professor, and Emily Schmitt, Ph.D., Wyoming WWAMI research coordinator and an assistant professor in the UW Division of Kinesiology and Health, were honored by the University of Washington School of Medicine. Dr. Govaerts received three WWAMI Pro Awards during the...

We welcome the entering class of Wyoming WWAMI who have taken their wilderness medicine course for the start of school. You can enjoy more photos of wilderness medicine in the Wyoming WWAMI’s Instagram post.