University of Washington School of Medicine
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| Type | Public |
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| Established | 1946 |
| Dean | Paul G. Ramsey |
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Academic staff
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1,800 |
| Students | 957 |
| Location |
Seattle, Washington, U.S. 47°38′56″N 122°18′25″W / 47.649°N 122.307°WCoordinates: 47°38′56″N 122°18′25″W / 47.649°N 122.307°W |
| Campus | Urban |
| Website | uwmedicine |
The University of Washington School of Medicine (UWSOM) is a public medical school in the northwest United States, located in Seattle and affiliated with the University of Washington.
UWSOM is the first public medical school in the states of Washington, Wyoming, Alaska, Montana, and Idaho. The school maintains a network of teaching facilities in more than 100 towns and cities across the five-state region. As part of this "WWAMI" partnership, medical students from Alaska, Idaho, Montana, and Wyoming spend their first year and a half at state universities in their home states. In addition, sixty first-year students and forty second-year students from Washington are based in Spokane.
UW Medicine includes the UWSOM, as well as a number of clinical facilities owned and operated by the UW, including the following:
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.
The school was founded in 1946 as the 76th medical school in the country and is a leader in primary care, family medicine, biomedical research, experimental therapy, clinical treatments, and academic medicine. In 2014, the UW School of Medicine was ranked #10 in research and #1 in primary care and in rural medicine by U.S. News and World Report. The UW School of Medicine also ranks as one of the top medical schools in receipt of federal researching funding, having been awarded $712.3 million in grants by the National Institutes of Health in 2009. Only Harvard Medical School was awarded more federal funding.
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