Health care on the home front: UW grads remain in the state to keep Wisconsin well
UW–Madison News | March 30, 2023
Where there’s a bandage, there’s a Badger. Doctors, nurses and pharmacists educated and trained in the UW’s health sciences programs are working in every one of the state’s 72 counties. 75% of UW–Madison alumni who earned a bachelor’s degree in health professions and related programs from 2001 to 2015 are working in Wisconsin; so are 70% of master’s degree recipients and 56% of graduates with a clinical doctorate in those fields. Bill Graf spoke to six Badgers who stayed in Wisconsin, including two School of Nursing alumni: Katey Olsen, ’20, and Ashley Thomas, ’22.