The University of Washington School of Medicine was established in 1946. It was the 76th medical school in the country and the first one after World War II. An outstanding faculty was recruited by Dr. Edward Turner, the founding dean,“to test new concepts at a school that was not yet mired in tradition”.
The school has experienced phenomenal growth so that now it is the medical school for 5 states, called the WWAMI region. WWAMI is an acronym for Washington, Wyoming, Alaska, Montana, and Idaho. This region comprises 27 percent of the total land mass of the United States. The UW School of Medicine has a full time faculty of about 1,800 and a volunteer faculty of approximately 4,400. For 14 years it has been ranked by U.S. News & World Report as the No. 1 school for teaching primary-care physicians and currently is ranked sixth in the country among research-oriented medical schools. The school is second only to Harvard in National Institutes of Health (NIH) research funding.
M.D. Degree Program Admissions
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