University of Washington School of Medicine

The University of Washington School of Medicine (UWSOM) is a large public medical school in the northwest United States, located in Seattle and affiliated with the University of Washington. According to U.S. News & World Reports 2022 Best Graduate School rankings, University of Washington School of Medicine ranked #1 in the nation for primary care education, and #7 for research. 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 Wyoming, Alaska, Montana, and Idaho spend their first year and a half at the University of Wyoming, the University of Alaska Anchorage, Montana State University, or the University of Idaho, respectively. In addition, sixty students in each class are based at Gonzaga University in Spokane, Washington. Preference is given to residents of the WWAMI states. UW Medicine UW Medicine includes the UWSOM, as well as a number of clinical facilities owned and operated by the UW, including the following: Harborview Medical Center — Seattle University of Washington Medical Center — Seattle Northwest Hospital & Medical Center — Seattle Valley Medical Center — Renton UW Medicine Neighborhood Clinics — nine primary care facilities UW School of Medicine UW Physicians — a physician practice Airlift Northwest — a medical transport system for Washington, Alaska, Montana and Idaho 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 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 & 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.