Weekly Information for UW Medical Students
March 14, 2024
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In this issue:
- Wishing graduating students a Happy Match Day
- Funding available for EDI activity
- Welcoming our new learning specialist
- March 27: Diversity Discussion on “EDI at Harborview.” Zoom and live
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Best wishes for Match Day, MS4s!
Graduating students: We know we speak for everyone at the school as we wish you a good day tomorrow, Match Day. We’re sad to lose you as readers of this newsletter in a few months, but we’re thrilled to think of you as doctors serving the community.
This year, due to student and faculty demand, the School of Medicine is creating a publicly available match list, which will include data such as student names, specialty, residency program, location, etc. Your information will only be included if you choose to opt in. You can opt in (or out) at any time before or after Match Day through this link. This public list will go live the week following Match.
If you are posting on social media about Match – and whether you do is entirely up to you – please use the hashtags #WWAMIMatch and #HuskyMatch. If you’d like us to post any images from you or a regional event on Friday, you know where to find us. Many students and prospective students watch these channels, so we love to help share your good news.
A note for students at the Seattle event: If you are a student from a Foundations site other than Seattle, please look for people holding up signs reading, “Are You an Idaho WWAMI Student?” “Are You a Spokane WWAMI Student?” etc. With your permission, we want to be sure to get photos of you to share with your proud regional deans and staff.
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Funding available this academic year for EDI-related events and travel
The Medical Student Equity Services team in the Office of Student Affairs is offering funding both for travel related to equity, diversity and inclusion (EDI) activities and for EDI events in WWAMI. The funding is for this academic year, so you are encouraged to apply soon.
Travel: The team is offering a one-time source of funding to support UWSOM students throughout the WWAMI region who are participating in U.S. regional or national professional association meetings/conferences focused on EDI efforts to address disparities for culturally, economically, educationally, and environmentally underrepresented/under-resourced persons and communities.
Events: The Office of Student Affairs is also offering one-time funding to supplement programs or events taking place from now through mid-June 2024 that are related to EDI efforts directly impacting UWSOM medical students in the WWAMI region. EDI funds are reserved for any UWSOM Registered Student Organizations; this also includes groups who are registered through a WWAMI partner university or group established after September 2023 that have been waiting to become registered by UW Office of Student Life. Funding proposals can be made for either a WWAMI-wide EDI event or region-specific EDI event.
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Welcoming a new learning specialist
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Academic Support welcomes the newest learning specialist to the team: Rebekah Freed, Ph.D., is originally from California and earned her Ph.D. in Educational Psychology from University of North Carolina Chapel Hill. She has researched and taught about the science of learning and self-regulated learning, and she now works with students in the School of Medicine and School of Pharmacy to apply this knowledge and facilitate student success.
Dr. Freed will be based in Seattle and will be working with Foundations and clinical students from the Cascade College in Seattle and clinical students from Alaska. You might be interested to know that in addition to having two dogs and two cats, Dr. Freed has two snakes!
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ICYMI: Diversity Discussion with Martine Pierre-Louis, M.P.H., is online and in-person March 27
Martine Pierre-Louis, director of Equity, Diversity and Inclusion at Harborview Medical Center, will speak on “EDI at Harborview” on Wednesday, March 27, sponsored by the UW Network of Underrepresented Residents and Fellows (NURF).
The talk begins 5 p.m. AK, 6 p.m. PT, 7 p.m. MT in person at Harborview Board Room – GEH (Ground East Hospital) Room 72 or through the Zoom link provided with registration. Register here. A light meal will be provided for those attending in person.
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Please Read Your Class Updates for This Week
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Got questions? Email these offices:
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