WRITE (WWAMI Rural Integrated Training Experience)

The WWAMI rural integrated training experience is a 5-month experience that provides core clerkship credit for family medicine, pediatrics, internal medicine and psychiatry. It is a continuity experience that is based in one community with the opportunity to follow patients and families over a period of time. Many students do more deliveries in this rotation than in the standard Ob/Gyn Clerkship

Site housing is provided and there is enough flexibility for students to have experiences in the operating room and emergency room. Alaska's two WRITE sites are Juneau and Palmer/Wasilla.

Juneau
Site Coordinator: Bob Urata, M.D.

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Located in Southeast Alaska and only visited by air or water transport, our capital is host to an excellent group of physicians.  Our newest clinical site is with the Valley Medical Center and their 6 family medicine physicians.  Because of the lack of specialists in Juneau, this group has a more extensive clinical practice than is seen in the typical family medicine clinic.

Wasilla
Site Coordinator: Barb Doty, M.D.

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This site features a very busy practice that also addresses larger community health issues. In addition, the practice offers experiences in complementary medicine.

Name:

Tom Nighswander, M.D., M.P.H.

Phone:

907-264-6784

Fax:	907-264-6602

E-mail:

tnighswa@anmc.org

Address:

Alaska WWAMI 310 K Street, Suite 200 Anchorage, AK 99508

Additional Information:

WWAMI Clinical Coordinator - Alaska

Name:

Michelle Devine

E-mail:

mjd3@u.washington.edu

Additional Information:

Alaska WWAMI Program Operations Specialist