What is WWAMI and how do I get in?
WWAMI stands for Washington, Wyoming, Alaska, Montana and Idaho. Each of these states has a reserved number of seats for its legal residents available at the University of Washington School of Medicine (UWSoM). Idaho currently has 18 such seats. If a legal resident of Idaho regardless of undergraduate institution applies to and is accepted by the UWSoM, that person is automatically in the WWAMI program. Those Idaho residents must spend their first year of medical school, along with 20 Washington residents, at Washington State University, Pullman, WA and the University of Idaho, Moscow, ID. (They regularly shuttle between these campuses.) After completing their first year of medical school on the Palouse, students continue their medical training at UWSoM in Seattle, WA. Therefore, an Idaho resident intent on going to the WWAMI program simply applies for admission to the University of Washington through AMCAS (American Medical College Application Service).
