The University of Wyoming participates in the WWAMI Medical Education Program, which is affiliated with the University of Washington School of Medicine (UWSOM) in Seattle, Washington.
WWAMI is an acronym for the five states that participate in this program: Washington, Wyoming, Alaska, Montana and Idaho. The UWSOM curriculum, content and testing is the same at all WWAMI sites.
Students that complete this four-year medical education program receive their doctor of medicine degree (M.D.) from the UWSOM.
The WWAMI program reserves twenty seats each year for qualified Wyoming residents. Students accepted to the program spend their first year on the University of Wyoming campus and the second year at the UWSOM. The third and fourth years are spent at selected clinical sites throughout the WWAMI region.
1) provide publicly supported medical education
2) increase the number of primary-care physicians and correct the maldistribution of physicians
3) provide community-based medical education
4) expand graduate medical education (residency training) and continuing medical education
5) provide all of these in a cost-effective manner.
WWAMI is recognized nationally and internationally as a model program for training physicians and other health professionals for rural areas. The program has set the standard for decentralized medical education
