UW statistics for residency match reported

This year at the UW, 160 senior medical students and seven sponsored graduates participated in the National Residency Matching Program and other placement mechanisms such as the Armed Services Matches and Advanced Specialties Matching.
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Sinanan named UWMC chief of staff-elect

Mika Sinanan, associate professor of surgery and director of the Surgical Specialties Clinic, was elected UW Medical Center chief of staff by his peers. He will begin a two-year term on July 1, 2001.
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John Van Loon Sheffield, coordinator for the internal medicine clerkship site at Harborview Medical Center, will be the speaker at the 1999 Investiture of Doctoral Hoods and Hippocratice Oath Ceremony. The ceremony will take place Saturday, June 5, in Meany Hall.

For the sixth year in a row, the UW School of Medicine is ranked as the nation's top primary-care medical school in the U.S. News & World Report's annual survey of graduate and professional schools.

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