Student News

The Institute for Common Power is hosting a panel discussion with three of the editors and contributors to the anthology, "Afterlife: A Collective History of Loss and Redemption in Pandemic America." The panel, will discuss the impact of the Pandemic and the “Racial Reckoning “on everything from healthcare to the health of American democracy. After Life is a collective history of how Americans experienced, navigated, commemorated,...

The co-chairs of the search for a new Associate Dean for Student Affairs (ADSA) are inviting students to a Town Hall to meet the three finalists for the role. "Your perspective and input about this important leadership role are critical. We hope you will submit questions and that you will attend the town halls we have scheduled ," said the co-chairs. They include Anne...

Debt Relief The Biden-Harris Administration’s Student Debt Relief Plan was passed last week. The pause on interest and payments on Federal Direct Student Loans has been extended through Dec. 31, 2022.  Information on loan debt cancellation for up to $10,000 ($20,000 for Pell grant recipients) for student’s meeting certain income limits can be found here. Financial Aid office's availability update This is the Zoom link for SOM Financial Aid Zoom...

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,...

When you were considering medical school, and then later applying, did you get a chance to talk to kind, helpful current students? Were you not able to, but wished you could have?Join the Admissions Ambassadors Program and help future medical students by being there for them!As an ambassador, you’ll be an important part of the medical education ecosystem by helping our office connect with...

The UW School of Medicine requires everyone to have an annual influenza vaccination. You must get your vaccination and upload the information to your Castlebranch (CB) account before Oct. 1, 2022. Castlebranch will not be able to accept the information until after Sept. 10. But you can get your shot before then. Flu vaccine is available through many local pharmacies (such as Rite Aid, CVS,...

The fall application cycle for the medical student conference travel grants are now open through September 5. Supported by the MSA & Academic Affairs, the medical student conference travel grant provides support to medical students to attend a virtual or in-person conference. Funding may go towards conference registration fees or airfare only. It cannot be used for accommodation, food, parking, other supplementary expenses, or...

You may receive a message in your email with a subject line “Your email access has been blocked.” Actually, what it means is that email is no longer being delivered to that particular email app because of changes to approved authentication methods for UW Office 365. This affects apps/programs like Apple Mail and built-in email apps on mobile devices. It does not affect access...

If you have been using the medical student activation code for Complete Anatomy, you may have seen that it expired in July. This was an error that has now been corrected, and you should see that it has been extended through October 2022. The UWSOM is discussing plans for renewing the license beyond October and will share more information when it becomes available. You...

The distribution lists for the medical student listservs have been updated. Students are required to be on the list that corresponds to their class.  Auxiliary list membership is optional. If you do not feel like you are not seeing messages you should be seeing, or you want to be added to a particular listserv, please email medlistserv@uw.edu.If you’re not seeing emails, check your “Other” and “Junk” folders....