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Longitudinal Clinical Rotations
Overview
Clinical training in tribal, underserved, and rural settings is essential to preparing a compassionate, adaptable, and equity-focused healthcare workforce. These experiences expose trainees to diverse patient populations, unique community strengths, and the challenges of limited resources. By working alongside local providers and understanding the cultural and social factors that shape health, students develop the skills, empathy, and commitment needed to advance health equity and improve care access in communities that need it most. We have developed two longitudinal clinical rotations in tribal, underserved, or rural health care settings.
Longitudinal Clinical Rotations
Advance Practice Nurse Practitioner Traineeship
NW GWEC-sponsored traineeships are awarded to full-time students (up to 5 / year) in the UW’s Doctor of Nursing Practice training program and who are in the clinical rotation phase of their training (years 2 and 3). Trainees amplify their geriatrics education by participating in Project ECHO–Geriatrics and our Area Agency on Aging Practicum. Traineeships will be for up to two academic quarters. Clinical rotations will be in tribal, underserved, and rural health care settings.
Geriatrics Selective for Rural Medical Students
The Rural Medical Student Training Program, or “WRITE” for short, in the UW School of Medicine aims to prepare more physicians to practice in rural areas of the Pacific Northwest. This longitudinal outpatient training program (full time, approximately 40 hours per week, over 21 to 24 weeks) focuses on outpatient primary care in a rural setting.
We developed a Geriatrics Selective Curriculum featuring four online modules in UW’s Canvas system, paired with in-clinic learning activities. Centered on the 4Ms of Age-Friendly Care—What Matters, Mentation, Mobility, and Medication—the modules include videos, clinical tools, and guides to support patient-centered geriatric care. WRITE students will also participate in Project ECHO–Geriatrics, with preceptors welcome to join.