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Apply for ANEW-WA

ANEW-WA Application

Timeline

ANEW-WA is a 6-month training opportunity for DNP students in primary care DNP tracks during the 2nd or 3rd year of the program. There are two cohorts offered each academic year:

Autumn/Winter Cohort
  • Available to Year 3 DNP-PC students
  • Offered during NCLIN 518 and NCLIN 801
  • Application opens 3 weeks before the end of Spring Quarter
Spring/Summer Cohort
  • Available to Year 2 DNP-PC students
  • Offered during NCLIN 516 and NCLIN 517
  • Application opens 3 weeks before the end of Autumn Quarter

Application Information

The ANEW-WA application will require you to provide the following information:

  • Full name
  • UW email address
  • UW student number
  • National Provider Identifier (NPI) number
  • DNP track

The application will also ask you to answer 2 essay questions:

  1. Please describe your past experiences, personal or professional, working with communities that experience disparities in health care. (300 words or less)
  2. Please describe your career goals and plans that demonstrate your commitment to working with rural and/or medically underserved communities. (300 words or less)

Please refer to HRSA definitions for the following terms to assist in preparing your essay answers:

  • Rural: A geographical area located in a non-metropolitan county, or an area located in a metropolitan county designated by the Federal Office of Rural Health Policy as rural.
  • Medically underserved area: Counties, a group of counties or civil divisions, or a group of urban census tracts in which residents have a shortage of personal health services.
  • Medically Underserved Populations (MUPs): Federally-designated population groups having a shortage of personal health services, often defined as groups who face economic, cultural, or linguistic barriers to health care, and limited access to services.