{"id":315,"date":"2012-10-22T16:57:05","date_gmt":"2012-10-22T16:57:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/medex\/?page_id=315"},"modified":"2024-09-24T01:24:15","modified_gmt":"2024-09-24T01:24:15","slug":"about-medex-nw","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/familymedicine.uw.edu\/medex\/about-medex-nw\/","title":{"rendered":"About MEDEX"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\n  <div class=\"banner has-hover has-parallax\" id=\"banner-1821302532\">\n          <div class=\"banner-inner fill\">\n        <div class=\"banner-bg fill\" data-parallax=\"-2\" data-parallax-container=\".banner\" data-parallax-background>\n            <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1080\" src=\"https:\/\/familymedicine.uw.edu\/medex\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2023\/07\/Orientation-Photo-Collage.jpg\" class=\"bg attachment-original size-original\" alt=\"\" \/>                                    \n                    <\/div>\n\t\t\n        <div class=\"banner-layers container\">\n            <div class=\"fill banner-link\"><\/div>            \n\n\n        <\/div>\n      <\/div>\n\n            \n<style>\n#banner-1821302532 {\n  padding-top: 400px;\n}\n#banner-1821302532 .banner-bg img {\n  object-position: bottom;\n}\n<\/style>\n  <\/div>\n\n\n<div class=\"row\"  id=\"row-632733482\">\n\n\n\t<div id=\"col-516905660\" class=\"col medium-3 small-12 large-3\"  >\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"col-inner\"  >\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\n\n<p><strong><ul class=\"sub-page-menu\" aria-label=\"Secondary nav menu\" role=\"navigation\" style=\"list-style-type:none\"><li class=\"page_item page-item-2972\"><a href=\"https:\/\/familymedicine.uw.edu\/medex\/about-medex-nw\/mission-vision-values\/\">Mission, Vision, and Values Statements<\/a><\/li>\n<li class=\"page_item page-item-319\"><a href=\"https:\/\/familymedicine.uw.edu\/medex\/about-medex-nw\/history\/\">History<\/a><\/li>\n<li class=\"page_item page-item-327 page_item_has_children\"><a href=\"https:\/\/familymedicine.uw.edu\/medex\/about-medex-nw\/faculty-staff\/\">Faculty and Staff<\/a><\/li>\n<li class=\"page_item page-item-3018\"><a href=\"https:\/\/familymedicine.uw.edu\/medex\/about-medex-nw\/work-with-us\/\">Work with Us<\/a><\/li>\n<li class=\"page_item page-item-1818\"><a href=\"https:\/\/familymedicine.uw.edu\/medex\/about-medex-nw\/employers\/\">Employers<\/a><\/li>\n<li class=\"page_item page-item-1815\"><a href=\"https:\/\/familymedicine.uw.edu\/medex\/about-medex-nw\/preceptors\/\">Preceptors<\/a><\/li>\n<li class=\"page_item page-item-5897\"><a href=\"https:\/\/familymedicine.uw.edu\/medex\/about-medex-nw\/veterans\/\">Veterans<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\n\t\n\n\t<div id=\"col-40773137\" class=\"col medium-9 small-12 large-9\"  >\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"col-inner\"  >\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\n\n<p><span data-contrast=\"auto\">MEDEX Northwest, established in 1969, is proud of its long<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">&#8211;<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">standing mission to educate health<\/span> <span data-contrast=\"auto\">care providers who will practice primary care in medically underserved and rural areas of the UW School of Medicine service region.\u202fMost of our 3,500-plus graduates who are still in the workforce are employed in the WWAMI region; please see the\u202f<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.uwmedicine.org\/school-of-medicine\/md-program\/wwami\"><span data-contrast=\"none\">WWAMI Program website<\/span><\/a><span data-contrast=\"auto\">\u202ffor more information on this regional program. In 2020, MEDEX also added a new campus in Kailua-Kona, Hawaii, supporting island students and communities there. <\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-contrast=\"auto\">MEDEX offers a competency-based program that accepts applicants with previous health<\/span> <span data-contrast=\"auto\">care experience, such as nurses (at any level), EMTs, Alaska community health aides, medical assistants, athletic trainers, former military corpsmen, etc.\u202fFive campuses serve students from a wide geographic range, and clinical education takes place throughout the WWAMI region, Hawaii and beyond. The very diverse MEDEX students fulfill the program\u2019s mission to improve access to primary health care as well as develop new professional roles for PAs.\u00a0<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-contrast=\"auto\">MEDEX Northwest operates as a section under the Department of Family Medicine in UW Medicine. 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