WWAMI -- Alaska's Medical School ranks No. 1 among primary-care medical schools for 15th straight year

The WWAMI medical school partnership has again been ranked first among primary care medical schools in the country, according to annual rankings of graduate and professional schools provided by U.S. News & World Report. For the 17th consecutive year, the programs in family medicine and in rural health also ranked No. 1. Alaska, through the University of Alaska Anchorage, is one of five states involved in this unique, collaborative medical school that is administratively centered at the University of Washington in Seattle.

WWAMI, an acronym for the participating states, serves as a medical school for the states of Wyoming, Washington, Alaska, Montana and Idaho. The school has teaching sites for medical students in more than 100 towns and cities across the five-state region. Five state universities, and more than 4,500 volunteer physicians and other clinicians in the region, join in educating and training WWAMI medical students. Alaskans can complete three of the four years of medical school in Alaska through WWAMI.