WWAMI Student Travel

Your official duty station

WWAMI Clerkship Travel funds can only be used to support your travel to required clinical clerkship sites, away from what’s known as your “official duty station.” What is your official duty station? The easiest way to think about duty stations is to remember that there are only two possibilities: Seattle, and an official Track Program site.

The official Track Program sites for the Patient Care Phase are:

State-based tracks:

  • Alaska
  • Idaho
  • Wyoming

City-based tracks:

  • Spokane, WA
  • Billings, MT
  • Bozeman, MT
  • Missoula, MT
  • Wenatchee, WA

Longitudinal Integrated Clerkship (LIC):

  • Olympia, WA

The official Track Program sites for the Explore & Focus Phase are:

  • Alaska state track (based in Anchorage)
  • Idaho state track (based in Boise)
  • Montana state track (based in Missoula, Billings, or Bozeman)
  • Spokane, WA city-based track

If you are not in one of the above-listed official Track Programs, then your official duty station is Seattle, WA. There are NO OTHER official duty stations than Track Program sites and Seattle.

SO WHAT IS MY OFFICIAL DUTY STATION?

Are you in one of the official Track Programs? If yes, then your Track site as listed above is your official duty station.

Are you in the Olympia Longitudinal Integrated Clerkship (LIC)? If yes, then your official duty station is Olympia.

Are you in the WRITE program? If yes, then your official duty station is Seattle, WA.

If you are not in a Track or LIC, then your official duty station is Seattle, WA.

YOUR OFFICIAL DUTY STATION IS EITHER:

1. AN OFFICIAL TRACK/LIC SITE

2. SEATTLE

THERE IS NO THIRD OPTION

The WWAMI Student Travel funding is able to support permitted expenses related to required clerkship travel from and returning to your official duty station only.

NOTE: “Seattle,” in terms of duty station under this policy, means the Seattle metropolitan area, which is the geographical area in and around the city of Seattle, north until the city of Everett, south until the city of Tacoma, east including the East Side (Mercer Island, Bellevue, Redmond, Bothell, Woodenville, etc.), and bounded on the west by Puget Sound (the islands and the Olympic Peninsula, including Bremerton, are outside of the Seattle metropolitan area). Everett and Tacoma are not part of the Seattle metro area.