Thanks to the efforts of several PNWU-COM students, residents of Yakima will now have enhanced access to make their voices heard. In a collaborative effort with the Yakima County Elections Office, and with the support of staff, students, employees, and the surrounding community, PNWU students recently installed a ballot drop box on PNWU’s health sciences…Continue Reading PNWU Students Partner to Bring Ballot Box to Campus
PNWU visits the Washington State Capitol for DO Day 2024 to speak with legislators about a critical demand for preceptors. Forty PNWU student doctors recently visited the Washington State Capitol in Olympia for DO Day 2024. Alongside representatives from our College of Osteopathic Medicine (COM), the students used the annual day of advocacy to voice their support…Continue Reading Your Voice Matters
PNWU’s Military Medical Students have once again achieved a perfect Military Match, with all six of our Class of 2023’s Military Student Doctors accepted into their first-choice residency programs. Those results – which were announced earlier this month by the Joint Service GME Selection Board – represent a variety of specialties and U.S. Armed Forces service branches…Continue Reading PNWU Military Medicine Students Achieve Perfect Residency Match
On Wednesday, December 14, PNWU celebrated the illustrious career of a cornerstone of our history, growth, impact and ongoing success. Following over fifteen years of dedicated service in support of the mission of our non-profit university, the retirement of PNWU Chief Financial Officer Ann Hittle was honored during a lively campus gathering. When Hittle was…Continue Reading PNWU Celebrates the Career of a University Cornerstone
On Thursday, December 15, PNWU hosted a holiday reception and awards ceremony in recognition of the outstanding work of our faculty and staff. During the festive campus event, PNWU President Dr. Michael Lawler and YVPIEC Executive Director Dr. Angela Stewart bestowed a variety of awards and honors, including faculty and staff awards and an inaugural…Continue Reading PNWU Hosts Awards Ceremony and Holiday Reception
Do no harm. That’s the oath everyone thinks of when they think of medical professionals; it’s the oath we want to promise and deliver when we join medical school. But at the same time, we work to value patient’s autonomy, striving to make sure that we aren’t paternalistic. We don’t want to practice medicine as…Continue Reading The COVID-19 Vaccine: Balancing Autonomy & Nonmaleficence
Elizabeth McMurtry, DO, FACEPAssistant Dean Clinical Education & Faculty Development David Miller, DOPNWU Class of 2013 Drs. Elizabeth McMurtry and David Miller (PNWU Class of 2013) were recently accepted to the 2021-2022 class of AACOM’s Osteopathic Health Policy Fellowship (OHPF). A year-long experiential training program for osteopathic physicians and other associated health professionals, the OHPF aims to help…Continue Reading PNWU Representatives Accepted to the 2021-2022 Class of AACOM’s Osteopathic Health Policy Fellowship
Responsible Unit: Marketing and Communications |Executive lead: Chief Communications Officer Created: 03/2021 | Reviewed/Revised: 08/04/2023 | Effective: 08/04/2023Compliance: RCW 63.60 Approving Body: PAC | Classification: Institution-wide Policy: Pacific Northwest University often uses still and motion images of academic activities and campus life for promotional purposes and to advance the University’s educational objectives; such activities may only occur…Continue Reading Image Use Policy
Responsible Unit: Office of Scholarly Activity | Executive lead: Provost Created: 03/01/2017 | Reviewed/Revised: 1/17/2019, 1/19/2023 | Effective: 4/22/2023Compliance: COCA 8.2, NWCCU 2.D.2, 45 CFR 46, 21 CFR 46 Approving Body: BOT | Classification: Institution-wide Purpose: To describe the human research protections program at Pacific Northwest University of Health Sciences (PNWU). Scope: This policy applies to all agents, offices,…Continue Reading Human Research Protection Policy