MISSION

Part of the University of Washington, UW Medicine works to improve the health of the public by advancing medical knowledge, providing outstanding primary and specialty medical care to people of the region, and preparing tomorrows physicians, scientists and other health professionals.


COMPONENTS

UW Medicine owns or operates

•Harborview Medical Center
•University of Washington Medical Center
•University of Washington School of Medicine
•UW Medicine Neighborhood Clinics
•UW Physicians

UW Medicine shares in the governance of

•Children's University Medical Group
•Seattle Cancer Care Alliance


LEADER IN BIOMEDICAL RESEARCH

Ranks first among public medical schools and second among all medical schools in federal research funding.

In fiscal year 2003, received $488.5 million in National Institutes of Health research awards and $165 million from private foundations, industry and other non-federal sources.

The faculty includes:

5 Nobel Prize winners.

26 Institute of Medicine members

26 National Academy of Sciences members


INNOVATOR IN EDUCATION

Ranked as top medical school for 11 consecutive years in training primary-care physicians, and has top-ranked academic programs in family medicine and rural health.

WWAMI, an acronym for Washington, Wyoming, Alaska, Montana and Idaho, is a model of community-based training of medical students and residents and of interstate collaboration in medical education.

UW Medicine enrolls:
790 medical students
563 graduate students in the basic sciences
1,114 residents
1,040 clinical and research fellows
155 physician assistant students
190 allied-health students.

The UW medical school has a full-time faculty of 1,740 and volunteer clinical faculty numbering about 4,500 throughout the WWAMI region.


NATIONALLY RECOGNIZED FOR PATIENT CARE

Our physicians admit 37,000 patients a year to our principal teaching hospitals. They provide about 20 percent of the inpatient hospital care in King County. Each year, our clinics and emergency rooms have more than 1 million patient visits.

Our physicians and medical centers provide more than 60 percent of the hospital charity care and care to Medicaid beneficiaries given in King County and more than one-third of the total statewide.

Harborview Medical Center has the only Level 1 adult and pediatric trauma center in the state, serves as disaster control center for King County, and is the designated White House receiving hospital.

University of Washington Medical Center ranks 9th among America's best hospitals in U.S. News & World Report's honor roll. It is renowned for its programs in solid organ transplantation, cancer treatment, heart care, high-risk pregnancy and neonatal intensive care, rehabilitation, and specialized orthopaedic surgery.

Both hospitals are noted for their programs in geriatrics and rehabilitation medicine.