New Class Accepted for UWs WWAMI Medical Education Program |
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Sept. 20, 2005 -- A new class is busy taking its first-year medical school classes on the University of Wyoming campus as part of WWAMI, the university’s medical education program in the College of Health Sciences.
WWAMI is affiliated with the University of Washington School of Medicine in Seattle. WWAMI is an acronym for the five participating states: Washington, Wyoming, Alaska, Montana, and Idaho. The program reserved 12 seats for qualified Wyoming residents this year.
During their first year at Wyoming, the WWAMI medical students take 25 semester credit hours each semester, taught by faculty from a variety of UW divisions, including family medicine, pharmacy, molecular biology, veterinary sciences, statistics, and zoology/physiology.
After completing their first-year classes at UW, the students can participate in the Rural/Underserved Opportunities Program that places them with practicing physicians in rural communities in Wyoming or throughout the region. The students’ third and fourth years will be spent at selected clinical sites throughout the WWAMI region.
The students selected for the program’s 12 seats, listed by hometown, undergraduate college and departments, are:
BIG HORN -- David Nickerson, Mills College, Oakland, Calif., geology, and Carlton College, Northfield, Minn., pre-medicine.
CASPER -- Jarod McAteer, Yale University, biology; Carissa Pereda, UW, zoology/physiology.
CHEYENNE -- Jake Merrell, Colorado College, Colorado Springs, Colo., biochemistry.
GILLETTE -- Darren Bowe, Pacific University, Forest Grove, Ore., chemistry.
JACKSON -- Jennifer Butcher, Dartmouth College, Hanover, N.H., biology.
LARAMIE -- Jie Chen, UW, psychology; Donald Corson, UW, molecular biology; Greg Wallace, UW, zoology/physiology.
SARATOGA -- Holly Stevens, UW, nutrition.
SHERIDAN -- Angela Sarkissian, Lawrence University, Appleton, Wis., biology.
WHEATLAND --_ Derek Nevins, UW, psychology and zoology/physiology.
Posted on Tuesday, September 20, 2005
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