First Medical Education Student Begins Training in Southeast Alaska
July 29, 2015
PeaceHealth and the University of Washington Medicine developed this formal health system collaboration agreement in May 2013. PeaceHealth participates in the WWAMI program in two states, Alaska and Washington. On the flip side of this agreement, the University of Washington Medicine is benefitting from the agreement as medical students in the UW Alaska WWAMI TRUST program are able to spend portions of their residency training in small, rural, underserved communities. This special curriculum connects students who ultimately desire to practice primary care in a rural area to a community throughout their 4-year residency process. In August, Southeast Alaska's first WWAMI student, Monica Cox will begin her training in Alaska when she visits Ketchikan and Prince of Wales for the first time. Now a first year medical student, Cox completed her undergraduate training at the University of Alaska in Anchorage while working as a scribe in the Emergency Department at Providence Alaska Medical Center. Cox’s first “Summer Experience” visit to Alaska July 31 to August 22 will help her get to know our communities and get a feel for the PeaceHealth team that she will be training with in intervals over the next four years. Monica looks forward to meeting many community members at the Blueberry Festival in Ketchikan on Saturday, August 1, where she will spend time helping at the PeaceHealth booth - which will be set up to provide a comfortable space for mothers to breastfeed and change babies in honor of World Breastfeeding Week. Cox will make her first visit to the PeaceHealth clinic in Craig August 9 through 11 and hopes to have opportunities to meet a number of community members as she explores the area a bit. Cox will be onsite several times over the next few years and during her third year of residency, she will spend extensive time in Souteast Alaska.
Edited by Mary Kauffman, SitNews
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