Track One - Rural Alaska

Alaska

The University of Washington Department of Emergency Medicine, in collaboration with the Alaska Native Tribal Health Consortium, continues to grow our UW Global Emergency Medicine and Rural Health fellowship opportunity with a clinical base in Alaska and internationally.

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Overview

Initiated in 2017, our program has graduated several cadres of fellows and remains a unique, challenging, and rewarding experience in the frontiers of practice for emergency medicine.

This is a one-year rural fellowship with Alaska Native Tribal Health Consortium (ANTHC) at sites in Alaska, with an optional international-based 2nd year in Global Health.  

In collaboration with the ANTHC, our unique program allows fellows to develop clinical skills in limited-resource settings throughout their one or optional international-based second year in Global Health, in an entirely field-based experience. The program includes:

  1. 12 months of clinical service in Alaska, including Alaska Native Medical Center (a hub referral site for ANTHC) and rural regional critical access hospitals and village clinics in Alaska.
  2. 12 months internationally with a renowned NGO or a UW global health program.
  3. Cultural immersion throughout the 1-year fellowship with an optional international-based 2nd year in Global Health.
  4. Curriculum in social medicine, MPH, humanitarian response, tropical medicine, and rural health.
  5. Mentorship/guidance from leaders in global health, medicine, and emergency medicine.

Our program is unique, flexible, and allows more international and field-based time than most others, with a robust and fully funded curriculum including MPH or DTM&H, and formal coursework in humanitarian response in addition to funding for educational endeavors of the fellow’s choosing.