Alaska offers a variety of quality learning opportunities in rural and community practices throughout the state. Alaska's remoteness from the "lower forty eight" necessitates a more comprehensive health infrastructure and capacity than is usually found in rural areas. Alaska's rugged beauty, arctic and sub-arctic climates and vast distances create challenges in the delivery of health services providing challenging opportunities for medical care. Telemedicine and village field visits are a vital part of providing services to our remote locations. Alaska uses more mid-level practitioners per capita than any other state. Your Alaska experience can bring new friendships, excellent recreational activities, and a chance to work and learn in the Last Frontier.
3rd-Year Required Clerkships
4th-Year Required Clerkship
Alaska Electives
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Things to Do
Alaska Facts
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Current Activities
Family Medicine
Internal Medicine
Ob/Gyn
Pediatrics
Psychiatry
Surgery
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Neurology
4th-Year Electives
Alaska WWAMI offers a wide variety of 4th year electives, including: Allergy, Anesthesiology, Cardiology, Dermatology, ENT, Family Medicine, Geriatrics, Infectious Disease. Internal Medicine, Nephrology, Neurology, Oncology. Ophthalmology, Orthopedics, Pathology. Pulmonology, Psychiatry. Pediatrics, Radiation Oncology, Radiology, Rehabilitation, Surgery and Urology.
A number of 4th-Year sub-specialty pediatric elective rotations are being developed in: allergy/immunology, cardiology, gastro-enterology, pulmonology, surgery and NICU. These sites are being coordinated and developed by Jon Lyon, M.D.
Plastics & Reconstructive
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The possibilities are endless, but if you love the outdoors you will want to spend as much time as you can in Alaska -
- Biking
- Hiking
- Fishing
- Hunting
- Snowmobiling
- Skiing
- Snowshoeing
- Camping
- White water rafting
- Canoeing
- Kayaking
- Horseback riding
- Golfing
- Experiencing the Iditarod
- At year-round community activities
- At Winter celebrations
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We have areas that get:
- 24 hours of daylight
- 24 hours of night
How big are we?
- 3 million lakes
- 586,400 square miles
- We are 2 times the size of Texas.
- We have 29 volcanoes.
- 33,000 miles of coastline
- 1,400 miles north to south
- 2,700 miles east to west
- Over 1/2 the world's glaciers
- 55 miles east of Russia
- We are the only state to have coastlines on 3 different seas - the Arctic and Pacific Oceans and the Bering Sea.
Records
- Record high temperature: +100 degrees F (1915)
- Record low temperatire: -78 degrees F (Tanana)
- High tides of 37 feet
- Snow: 24 hours - 62 inches; 1 year - 974 inches (Thompson, near Valdez)
Mountains
- Mount Denali - 20,320 feet (tallest in North America)
- Mount Elias - 18,800 feet
- Foraker - 17,400 feet
- Bona - 16,500 feet
- Blackburn - 16,390 feet
- Sanford - 16,237 feet
- Vancouver - 15,700 feet
- Churchhill - 15,638 feet
- Fairweather - 15,300 feet
- Hubbard - 15,015 feet
- Bear - 14,831 feet
Islands (largest)
- Kodiak - 3,588 square miles
- Prince of Wales - 2,770 square miles
- Chichagof - 2,062 square miles
Lakes (largest)
- Iliamna - 1,000 square miles
- Becharof - 458 square miles
- Teshekpuk - 315 square miles
- Naknek - 242 square miles
Longest River
- Yukon - Total of 2,300 miles (1,875 in Alaska)
Wildlife
- Kodiak Bear - 1,400 pounds, 11 feet tall
- Polar Bear - 1,400 pounds, 11 feet tall
- Grizzly Bear (Brown Bear) - 800 pounds, 9 feet tall
- Moose - 1,350 pounds, 5 feet high to shoulder, antler span 72 inches
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