2026-2027 MEDEX Application Cycle Is Now Open
Applications will be accepted May 1 - October 1, 2026 for June 2027 matriculation.
Prospective applicants should review the updated admissions criteria on the Applicants page before applying.
Features
Meet some of the people of MEDEX Northwest – students and faculty, founders and visionaries – who have helped to forge the forward path for PAs and affect change in world of progressive and responsible healthcare delivery.
It Doesn’t Have to Define You: An Interview with Sarah Serpinas, MS, PA-C
Sarah Serpinas, MS, PA-C, is a Lecturer on the Didactic Faculty of the MEDEX Spokane campus. A graduate of MEDEX Spokane Class 12 (2010), Sarah joined the MEDEX Spokane faculty in 2014. In addition to her teaching duties, she is a provider at the Kaiser Permanente Riverfront Medical Center in [...]
Veterans Day 2023: The Journey
Since 1969 and the graduation of Seattle Class 1 – a group of 12 comprised entirely of military veterans – MEDEX Northwest has sought out military veterans to join our ranks, and today is no exception. In recognition of 2023 Veterans Day, we invited current MEDEX students with military backgrounds [...]
Pomai Murakami (MEDEX Kona Class 4) Receives Native Hawaiian Health Scholarship
MEDEX Kona Class 4 (2025) student Pomai Murakami was recently named a recipient of the Native Hawaiian Health Scholarship. We asked Pomai to reflect on how she came to learn about the scholarship, what it means to her to receive it, and what it will help her to achieve. Here [...]
MEDEX Kona Class 4 Student Angel Adams Accepted Into Social Mission Alliance Health Justice Council and Health Justice Student Assembly
MEDEX is pleased to share the news that Angel Adams, a student in MEDEX Kona Class 4 (class of 2025) has been accepted into the Social Mission Alliance (SMA) Health Justice Council (HJC) and Health Justice Student Assembly (HJSA) for the 2023-2024 academic year. From SMA: “The HJC is [...]
Family, Sacrifice, Hope, Language and the Power of Community: Collected Voices from MEDEX Northwest (2023 National Hispanic/Latinx Heritage Month)
To mark the close of 2023 National Hispanic/Latinx Heritage Month (September 15-October 15), we’ve gathered the four pieces that were written by MEDEX Northwest faculty, staff and students and posted weekly on MEDEX Facebook over the course of the month. We sought out these first-person narratives as a way to [...]
Combating the Opioid Abuse Epidemic: MEDEX Northwest and MOUD Trainings
“When we’re actually prescribing treatments where people live, where they’re in their support group, it makes the difference between being able to complete treatment and live, or not complete treatment and die,” Tacoma City Councilmember Catherine Ushka said, looking out at the MEDEX Tacoma students in the midst of completing [...]
The Maui Fires: Portrait of a Community Response
Until news of the catastrophic wildfires raging in Maui on the evening of Tuesday, August 8 began to make its way across the state and nation, things at the MEDEX Kona campus were pretty much buzzing along as planned. Members of Kona Class 4 (KC4), the newest cohort of MEDEX [...]
Diversity, Community and the Newest MEDEX Northwest Cohort
It’s always good to welcome a new cohort of students to MEDEX Northwest, and the gathering at this year’s New Student Orientation Week was no exception. A total of 1,339 candidates submitted applications for acceptance to MEDEX in the 2022-2023 application cycle. Of these candidates, 300 were selected to interview [...]
I Want My Classroom To Have Everyone In It: A Conversation with Brendan Riordan, MS, PA-C
Brendan Riordan, MS, PA-C is an Assistant Teaching Professor on the faculty of MEDEX Spokane. He joined his MEDEX Spokane colleagues in January 2021 and he hasn’t looked back. A second-generation PA, Brendan’s path to teaching includes stops working in pre-hospital and transport medicine in New York City, graduating from [...]
Bring Your Whole Self In: An Interview with Amee Naidu, MMS, PA-C
It was tricky to find the time to sit down and chat with Amee Naidu, particularly given that she is a person who prefers to get up and go. She has been a faculty member at MEDEX Northwest’s Seattle campus since 2007. Building on her background in internal medicine, geriatrics, [...]