University of Washington School of Medicine

The University of Washington School of Medicine (UWSOM) is a public medical school located in Seattle, Washington.

Overview

UWSOM is a graduate school affiliated with the University of Washington, and is the only medical school in the states of Washington, Wyoming, Alaska, Montana, and Idaho (WWAMI). Although serving as the primary medical school for a conglomeration of five states, UWSOM is well-equipped with teaching facilities in more than 100 towns and cities across the five-state region. As part of this partnership, medical students from Alaska, Idaho, Montana, and Wyoming spend their first years at state universities in their home states. In addition, twenty first-year students from Washington are based in Pullman, Washington and take classes with students based at the University of Idaho.

UW Medicine

UW Medicine owns or operates the Harborview Medical Center, the University of Washington Medical Center, the Northwest Hospital & Medical Center, a network of seven UW Medicine Neighborhood Clinics that provide primary care, the UW School of Medicine, the physician practice UW Physicians and Airlift Northwest. In addition, UW Medicine shares in the ownership and governance of Children’s University Medical Group and Seattle Cancer Care Alliance, a partnership between UW Medicine, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center and Seattle Children’s.

History

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