Wyoming joins consortium for med-school education

SEATTLE, Wash. – At first glance, the Warren G. Magnuson Health Sciences Center at the University of Washington seems an unlikely place to train doctors and health-care professionals for the wilds of rural Wyoming.With 16 miles of corridors, the University of Washington School of Medicine is larger physically than many Wyoming communities, yet it is pioneering new approaches to training doctors and other health professionals who specialize in providing primary care to people in the hinterlands of the Pacific Northwest.
Twenty-five years ago, Washington, Alaska, Montana and Idaho joined in creating a new system of regional medical education to serve…