The University of Washington School of Medicine has once again earned the nation’s No. 1 ranking in family medicine and rural medicine in the 2017 U.S. News & World Report Best Graduate Schools. This marks 25 consecutive years that family medicine and rural medicine have ranked in the No. 1 spot. The UW medical school also continues to rank No. 1 in training for primary care, as it has for 22 of the past 23 years.
Many of these students from the university do clinical training in Juneau for emergency medicine, family medicine, internal medicine and psychiatry. Juneau also has a Rural Underserved Opportunities Program, a four-week, elective immersion experience in community medicine for students between their first and second years of medical school, and it is one of five Alaska locations where the WWAMI Rural Integrated Training Experience program (WRITE) takes place. WRITE is designed to give selected third-year medical students an appropriate mix of ambulatory and hospital experience during a 18-22 week clinical education experience at a rural primary care teaching site.
