Weekly Information for UW Medical Students
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COVID-Related Information
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Do You Have Concerns About COVID- 19 Symptoms or a Possible Exposure?
If you are experiencing COVID-19 symptoms, or if you have encountered a possible or known exposure, please follow these COVID-19 Exposure/Symptoms/Diagnosis procedures:
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UW Medicine Town Hall Meeting
Please join us for the next UW Medicine Town Hall on Friday, August 13, at 3 p.m. PDT.
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Information for All Students
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UW Changes to face coverings, vaccination requirements and other COVID-19 updates
On July 7, 2021, the University of Washington Office of the President shared important changes to COVID-19 requirements. Read the full message here.
All medical students must verify their vaccination status as noted in the message from the President and Provost.
How to verify your vaccination status
Vaccination attestation information is private and confidential.
- Instructors may not ask their students about their vaccination status, nor will they have access to students’ records or be expected to verify students’ vaccination status. Instructors may broadly inform students that individuals who are not fully vaccinated need to wear face coverings in the classroom.
A limited number of employees and students are exempt from the vaccination requirement. See the new vaccination requirement page for more information, including details on privacy protections and links to the attestation forms.
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UWSOM Accreditation Status
In response to student requests for more information about UWSOM’s accreditation status, we developed a new accreditation website. Throughout 2021, the accreditation website will be updated on a monthly basis to provide an executive summary of each of the twelve accreditation standards and UWSOM’s compliance with those standards. Standard 7 on Curriculuar Content is now available.
We encourage you to take a look and learn more about accreditation at allopathic schools of medicine.
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BIPOC Focus Group Invitation for Students Who Completed RUOP
Did you participate in RUOP during your first summer of medical school and identify as BIPOC? The Office of Rural Programs is seeking self-identified BIPOC students to participate in 60-90-minute virtual focus group style sessions that are scheduled in August on Wednesday and Thursday evenings. All information will be kept confidential and all personal and site identifiers will be removed. If you would like to participate and contribute to this study, please sign up at this link: wejoinin sign-up sheet. If none of these dates/times work for you, please contact Bopha or Brian (emails below).
We are offering a $30 gift card to those who participate. We would like to have a diverse representation in these discussions. Your voice and feedback matters!
For questions, please contact the facilitators of the focus groups directly: Brian Cedeño, MS2, cedeno93@uw.edu and Bopha Cheng, Program Operations Specialist, bophac1@uw.edu.
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Service Learning Update: Alaska Students Have H.E.A.R.T!
When first-year Alaska WWAMI students, Kathryne Mitchell and Nianiella Dorvall, took over the reins to the H.E.A.R.T. (Health Education and Awareness through Role-modeling and Teaching) Service Learning program last September, their prospects looked a little bleak. In normal times, H.E.A.R.T. offers in-person presentations at local middle and high schools with a goal of bringing more underrepresented students into the health professions. Last fall, however, many Service Learning projects were paused due to COVID. Despite this Kathryne and Nianiella were undaunted. They realized the pandemic offered a unique way to expand H.E.A.R.T.’s reach beyond Anchorage. “We saw the COVID paradigm shift as an opportunity. Suddenly everyone had Zoom and knew how to use it – and we thought what a great way to expand our services and reach out to Alaska’s smaller indigenous communities.”
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Kathryne is from North Pole and Nianiella from Nikolaevsk on the Kenai Peninsula and this furthered their determination to expand. “Our own personal experiences showed us how important it is to give rural students this exposure. I had no idea that WWAMI existed when I was growing up,” said Kathryne. Using Zoom they brought H.E.A.R.T. to 14 schools, completed 19 presentations and reached 228 students. Over half of the first-year Alaska WWAMI class participated in at least one presentation. At each H.E.A.R.T. presentation, volunteers offer advice on what to focus on in high school and provide some guidance about college. They stress that Alaska students can attend medical school in Alaska. They also include each presenter’s personal story, and email in case questions come up later. The students get very excited when they learn that someone from their community got into medical school. Kathryne and Nianiella feel that COVID ended up as a net positive for H.E.A.R.T.; many of the schools are eager to have them back.
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- Student Listserv Rollover
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Updates for each class:
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