Instead of coasting toward graduation last spring, Kaitlin Poppe had a better plan: serving at-risk patients.
Poppe, who received her D.D.S. from UW in June, spent the spring at the Yakima Valley...
Recognition of depression as a global problem has increased dramatically over the last decade, partly through the efforts of University of Washington faculty to broaden awareness and treatment in the...
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The nearly 250 first-year medical students starting this month will experience the first major change to the UW School of...
Imagine a future in which ailments such as heart disease and diabetes can be routinely detected with a simple mouth swab.
In fact, that future is not far off, and saliva researchers are bringing it...
The development of a brand new curriculum is challenging and among those involved in curriculum development and first implementation, there is always the worry: Will it work? When the curriculum in...
Timothy Woodiwiss left high school at 16 to work at McDonald's. He joined the National Guard at 18 to help in Hurricane Katrina's aftermath. Through multiple career and family changes, he always kept...
It’s a scene straight out of Harry Potter: Nervous students await their fate during an annual ritual.
But unlike Hogwarts' wizards-in-training, graduating medical students around the country don’t...
When students begin the 2016-17 academic year, the University of Washington School of Medicine and Gonzaga University will welcome the largest-ever entering class of medical students in Spokane. In...
The University of Washington School of Medicine and the University of Idaho will welcome the largest-ever entering class of medical students in Idaho when students begin the 2016-17 academic year in...
Dr. Jeff Sung first felt the anguish and guilt of losing a patient to suicide when he was a UW resident training in psychiatry and behavioral sciences.
“I had just seen the person the previous day...