WWAMI Faculty Newsletter
News & Information from the University of Washington School of Medicine
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A Message from Dr. Suzanne Allen
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I hope you are having a good start to 2024. The UW School of Medicine (UWSOM) is beginning the year by announcing something that shows our appreciation for all that you do. Internal Continuing Medical Education (CME) credits will now be free to our UWSOM faculty.
We’re doing this because we think it’s important to support your professional development, and we want to support you. We are grateful and appreciate everything you do to educate our students, the future of medicine.
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Meanwhile, behind the scenes, we’re also working to create more CME-certified education. The school is no longer charging departments to certify internal CME activities. This applies to educational offerings such as Grand Rounds, Case Conferences, Extension of Health Related Outcomes (ECHO) programs and other events directed towards our faculty and staff. It does not include large courses open to the public where registration fees may be charged. We hope these learning opportunities will allow you to continue to engage in education locally and support your efforts in caring for patients.
As part of all this, we are expanding our CME platform which we think will make the work of CME certification and CME tracking easier. For example, you will no longer have to fill out verification forms and credit will be available shortly after participation in accredited offerings.
In her email announcing this development, Patricia “Trish” Kritek, M.D., Ed.M., Vice Dean – Faculty Affairs, wrote, “We are very excited about this next chapter for CME and hope you are too!”
Excited is a very good word for how we all feel about this. I, in turn, am grateful to Trish, Jessica, and others on the team who made these changes possible.
We appreciate you and all that you do. Here's wishing you all good things in 2024!
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Suzanne Allen, M.D., M.P.H.
Vice Dean for Academic, Rural & Regional Affairs
University of Washington School of Medicine
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In this Newsletter
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- Announcements & News
- Admissions
- Advancement & Alumni Relations
- Awards
- Opportunities to grow as an educator
- From the Center for Learning and Innovation in Medical Education (CLIME)
- From Continuing Medical Education (CME)
- WWAMI Roundup
- Important Links
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Announcements & News
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Register now for GME Summit April 25 - 26, 2024, in Anchorage, Alaska
Register now for early bird pricing: Medical and community leaders from throughout WWAMI are invited to explore key issues in graduate medical education during the next GME Summit,
April 25 - 26, 2024, at the BP Energy Center in Anchorage, Alaska.
The focus of the gathering will be collaborating to address workforce needs within the WWAMI region and beyond. Register now; the price increases from $175 to $225 on Feb. 1, 2024.
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Support WWAMI faculty in Western Washington and Wyoming
There are two exciting opportunities to support WWAMI faculty development through the Stern Regional Education program, which focuses on supporting medical education for faculty working with medical students across the WWAMI region.
There is a Stern Fellow for each region. The open opportunities are in Western Washington and Wyoming. The Stern Fellow’s role will be to teach, coach and mentor faculty. The expectation for each Stern Fellow will be to provide one day per month to this work. There is a $10,000 stipend per year. The Stern Fellow will report to the Stern Endowed Chair for Medical Education, Heidi Combs, M.D. Please contact her to learn more.
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Please take a two-sentence survey and help us send a Valentine to medical students
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From left, LeeAnna Muzquiz, M.D., Associate Dean for Admissions, with medical students Shelby Snyder, Sarah Rasmussen-Rehkopf and Nizhoni Sutter and Center for Indigenous Health (CIH) Director Jason Deen, M.D., seen during the annual meeting of the American Indian Science and Engineering Society (AISES), held in Spokane. Admissions, CIH and the students, members of the student group Association of Native American Medical Students (ANAMS), collaborated to staff an informational table and provide a tour of the Spokane WWAMI campus.
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Highlights of 2023 from Admissions
The Admissions office believes in educating prospective students so they can succeed in the medical school application process. In 2023, we participated in over 20 virtual and in-person conferences, fairs, and presentations in an effort to reach prospective applicants and their advisors at community colleges and universities throughout WWAMI.
Our social media accounts advertised these events, in addition to featuring students across the region. Our medical student lead admissions ambassadors created projects including:
- Hosting youth for anatomy lab tours in Anchorage
- Creating a web page for Washington applicants deciding whether to apply to Seattle or Spokane
- Creating a Seattle campus tour video for interviewing applicants
Upcoming Admissions events:
- Feb. 27, 2024: Inside Admissions. Please RSVP by Feb. 20
- March 26: Virtual Second Look for all accepted applicants
- Early May: E-25 Essentials (recorded for YouTube)
- Late May: 2024 Advice from Admissions
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Advancement & Alumni Relations
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Please take our survey for all alumni by Feb. 1
The survey covers engagement, communications, demographics, connection and identity. Your responses will provide us with valuable data for strategic planning and decision-making.
You will help us create a stronger alumni network that supports each of us individually as well as the UW School of Medicine.
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Please share the Inside Admissions webinar with prospective students
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Awards
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The UW School of Medicine is fortunate to include talented leaders and faculty. Congratulations to the following award recipients! We know more faculty and staff are being recognized that haven't been featured in this newsletter. Please let us know of award recipients, so we can share the good news and learn more about each other.
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Teresa Blaskovich, M.D.
Third-year Pediatrics Lead Preceptor at The Childrens Clinic, Billings, Montana
WWAMI Student’s Choice Teacher Appreciation Award, third-year medical students in Montana
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Michael Bradshaw, M.D.
Fourth-year Neurology Lead Preceptor at Billings Clinic, Billings, Montana
WWAMI Student’s Choice Teacher Appreciation Award, fourth-year medical students in Montana
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Joan "Mutt" Dickson, M.D.
Student Mentor, Former Montana WWAMI Admissions Committee member, Glendive, Montana
Dr. Frank Newman Rural Clinician Leadership Award for 2023, medical students in Montana
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Colin Fitterer, M.D.
Internal Medicine, Co-Preceptor at intermountain Health/St. Vincent Healthcare, Billings, Montana
Richard M. Tucker WWAMI Faculty Excellence in Teaching Award for 2020-2021 & 2022-2023, medical students in Seattle
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Sue Gallo, M.D.
Lead Clinical Faculty Member, Miles City, Montana
Dr. Frank Newman Rural Clinician Leadership Award,
Montana WWAMI faculty
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Kristin Lee, M.D.
WWAMI Preceptor, Soldotna, Alaska
YWCA Woman of Achievement,
YWCA Alaska
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Megan McMillan, M.D.
Internal Medicine, Lead Preceptor at Billings Clinic, Billings, Montana
Richard M. Tucker WWAMI Faculty Excellence in Teaching Award for 2022-2023, medical students in Seattle
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Opportunities to Grow as an Educator: From CLIME
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IAMSE Winter 2024 Web Series: One World, One Health Tackling the Global Health Crisis
The Winter 2024 International Association of Medical Science Educators (IAMSE) Webcast Audio Seminars will explore the intersection of medical and health professions education with global health. Themes will include the difficulties of life and medical practice in other parts of the world, to the unique challenges faced by migrant physicians, and medical education and scholarship in low-resource countries. This webinar series will equip health professions educators to train globally minded learners who will provide care for the medically underserved from pole to pole. For more detailed session information,
see the IAMSE Winter 2024 Web Series website.
CLIME 2024 Call for Small Grant Proposals
CLIME is pleased to announce a funding opportunity for UW faculty interested in pursuing education scholarship. A total of $20,000 is available. Apply here by March 29, 2024.
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ICYMI: CLIME Together Symposium will be June 14, 2024
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The annual CLIME Together symposium is for the UWSOM community to gather and work together to strengthen teaching skills, foster educator career development and support educator scholarship.
Save the Date of June 14, 2024. More details will be coming soon!
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Conversation Café: Arts and Humanities in Medical Education Series
Curious about what arts and humanities can bring to your teaching in health professional educational settings? Join us for a CLIME Conversation Café series on arts and humanities in medical training. For more information on these sessions, see the CLIME events calendar. All sessions start these Thursdays on Zoom at 11 a.m. AK, noon PT, 1 p.m. MT.
CLIME Work in Progress Series
All sessions start on Zoom at 11 a.m. AK, noon PT, 1 p.m. MT.
- Tuesday, Feb. 13, 2024: “Implementation of an on-demand diabetes Project ECHO for Healthcare Trainees,” with Stephanie Kim, M.D., M.P.H. and Nicole Ehrhardt, M.D.
- Thursday, March 21, 2024: “Exploring First in Family to College Medical Students’ Experiences with Noncurricular Activity Participation though an Anti-Deficit Lens," with Alexander Garrett, M.D.
- Tuesday, March 26, 2024: "Medimon: A monster-taming medical education curriculum," with Tyler Bland, Ph.D.
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More Opportunities: Continuing Medical Education
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Continuing Medical Education offers many courses
Happy New Year! Start planning your CME for the year NOW! Continuing professional development is an essential part of our careers. Engagement with continuing medical education (CME) provides growth and, for many, is required for ongoing licensure and certification.
As Dr. Allen wrote above, it will be free for all School of Medicine faculty to receive CME for internal CME-certified events including Grand Rounds, Case Conferences and other educational offerings. This change supports our belief that ongoing professional development is vital and should be accessible to you at no cost. We will also support departments by ending the charge to certify these CME offerings.
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UWSOM presents fourth-year student with Martin Luther King Jr. Community Service Award
You already know our medical students get involved in the community. Brian Cedeño is one of the students who takes that to the next level. Brian is well known for mentoring; he’s also been involved in a variety of projects to advocate for, and improve, community health.
The award ceremony at Hogness Auditorium in Seattle was all the more meaningful for Cedeño because one of his own mentors was there: Leo Morales, M.D., Assistant Dean in the Office of Healthcare Equity.
In a video, Dr. Morales talks about how he first met Cedeño during the student’s freshman year as a UW undergraduate. And both men talk about the importance of mentoring.
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Identifying health concerns in rural and underserved areas
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Each summer, UWSOM Spokane medical students look for ways to address issues throughout WWAMI.
Our partner in Spokane, Gonzaga University, recently published an article about students from Spokane who made a difference in Montana and rural and urban areas in Washington:
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From left, medical students Greg Hunt, Blanca Mejia and Anthony Mantz.
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- Raising mental health awareness among Latino farm workers in Othello, Washington
- Providing information about community resources regarding diet and exercise to diabetic patients in Seattle
- Educating teens in Conrad, Montana, about the importance of wearing seat belts
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Poster session award recipient Madeleine Prince poses with Emily Schmitt, M.D., Research Faculty Advisor.
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Wyoming poster session highlights research and scholarship
Wyoming put student scholarship on display during a poster session at Ivinson Memorial Hospital. The award recipients included Madeleine Prince, who received the Top Scholarship of Discovery Project. “The Scholarship of Discovery program gave me an incredible research and shadowing experience over the summer between my MS1 and MS2 years,” Prince said.
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Faculty award winners honored at barbecue
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read above about a number of award winners among faculty in Montana. Here's one of the benefits: an annual awards BBQ held in Billings every summer. Above is just a quick glimpse of the event, featuring, clockwise around the table from left, James Denisar-Green, M.D., Associate Program Director for Montana Family Medicine Residency; MS3 Andrea Larson, Steve Gerstner, M.D., Program Director for Billings Clinic Internal Medicine Residency, Heidi Duncan, M.D., Billings Clinic Family Medicine Preceptor, Roxanna Fahrenwald, M.D., Montana Family Medicine Residency Faculty and Jay Erickson, M.D., Assistant Dean for Regional Affairs/Assistant Clinical Dean, WWAMI Montana. Along the wall, from left: Rachel Hill, Eastern Montana Area Health Education Center's (AHEC) Health Equity Coordinator, Dustin Schnieder, Eastern MT AHEC’s Training Coordinator and Jenny Jutz, WWAMI Billings Track
Coordinator and Eastern MT AHEC’s Student Placement Coordinator.
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The Billings Track Office located in the Eastern Montana AHEC department at RiverStone Health hosts this BBQ event every summer. They have been presenting the Teacher Award since 2009, as nominated by third- and fourth-year students. This year's winners, pictured above in the Awards section, are pediatrician Teresa Blaskovich, M.D., of The Children’s Clinic, nominated by third-year students, and neurologist Michael Bradshaw, M.D., of Billings Clinic, nominated by fourth-year students.
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Idaho faculty member and alumna both featured in news media
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Two members of the Idaho WWAMI community appeared in the news media recently. Kim Hartwig, M.D., above, a UWSOM graduate, spoke to The Lewiston Tribune and Northwest Public Broadcasting about being a Native American woman working in medicine, how to make rural health care work and how to build a future for the next generation.
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Meanwhile, Clinical Assistant Professor Bethaney Fehrenkamp, Ph.D., appeared in an ABC News report about low vaccination rates in Idaho.
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Ideas for this newsletter are welcome
If you have stories, photographs or awards that you'd like to share in our next Faculty Newsletter, please email uwsomcom@uw.edu. We'd love to hear from you, and don't forget pictures and video if you have them. The deadline for our next issue is tentatively March 11, 2024.
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Important Links
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