Welcome to the SPARX Website!

SPARX is a multidisciplinary effort of the University of Washington Schools of Health Sciences that encourages health profession students to consider practice in rural and urban medically underserved communities and to promote effective team work across disciplines.

Activities bring together students in the schools of social work, medicine (including MEDEX), nursing, pharmacy, public health and community medicine and dentistry to offer students experiences to learn about and work with medically underserved populations while they are in their training.

SPARX understands that life can be hectic for students. The program is designed to accomodate students' rigorous schedules. SPARX activities include informal evening seminars to introduce topics that students may not otherwise get in their training, workshops and service projects. Check out the calendar of events for SPARX schedule.

SPARX is a regional program that exists in each of the WWAMI states. It is sponsored by the WWAM Area Health Education Center. The University of Washington's Area Health Education Center coordinates SPARX activities and the Deans of Health Sciences Schools sponsor SPARX at the University of Washington.

SPARX Listserve: To 'be in the know' and to get information and reminders of events, please subscribe to the SPARX listserve. This is simple:

Visit http://mailman.u.washington.edu/mailman/listinfo/SPARX/ and follow the instructions to subscribe. Subscriptions are now maintained by users, so please do not make subscription requests by emailing the list or the list owner. Please visit the subscription site, instead.