SWEDISH FAMILY MEDICINE RESIDENCY PROGRAM

 CHERRY HILL

             Seattle, Washington

The Swedish Family Medicine Residency Program Cherry Hill trains physicians to provide the highest quality care to underserved patients in an environment of clinical excellence, ethnic diversity, cultural sensitivity and lifelong learning.

Program Highlights:

• Received the maximum amount of accreditation (5 years!) from the Residency Review Committee.

• Community-based hospital with 3 continuity clinic training sites serves a diverse mix of urban underserved patients. All three training clinics accept uninsured patients – no one turned away for the inability to pay.
• Family Medicine Service that cares for hospitalized patients of all 3 sites and benefits from evidence-based teaching delivered by Family Medicine attendings from all 3 sites.
• Multi-disciplinary approach to inpatient Family Medicine training provides teaching in Adult Medicine, Pediatrics, OB, Pharmacology, Social Work.
• Strong Resident/Faculty partnership empowers residents to shape the program to meet their needs.
• Outstanding Pediatrics training with weekly pediatric lectures, Newborn Rotation and stellar teachers drawn from our hospital and community practices. 
• Residents who value the balance between work and play and faculty who support this balance.
• Focus on evidence-based medicine throughout the curriculum.
• Global Health Initiative offers residents international rotations in Kenya, Nicaragua and Peru. 
• Strong commitment to underserved community with outreach to homeless youth and victims of violence.
• Areas of Concentrations in Addiction Medicine, Legislative Advocacy, International Medicine, Maternal-Child Health, Sports Medicine, Integrative Medicine, Rural Medicine, and Women’s Health/Gynecology.
• Longitudinal curriculum in Community Medicine that gives residents guided hands-on experience in research or community capacity building.
• Addiction Medicine and Chronic Pain Management curriculum, supervised by 3 addiction medicine certified faculty members. 
• Robust OB curriculum, including training in high-risk antepartum and C-section assist supported by ready back-up of OB Fellows.
• Family Medicine OB Fellowship offers R4 year leading to competence in primary C-section.
• Procedure training, including colposcopy, LEEP, ultrasound, no-scalpel vasectomy, flex sigmoidoscopy, biopsies, and other outpatient procedures.
• Abortion training is a part of the core gynecology curriculum and additional elective rotations are available
• Nationally renowned Behavioral Medicine training with a month-long intensive rotation in the second year, 2-week rotation in the 3^rd year, weekly Balint Groups led by a prominent UW Psychiatrist and Family Medicine Physician, weekly lectures, and a month-long patient-interviewing skills rotation.
• Opportunities to teach visiting medical students from the University of Washington and other medical schools.
• Supportive hospital with resident-centered services that make life easier, such as free parking, free food, and family-friendly call rooms.
• Electronic Medical Record (EMR) at all three clinic sites and on the Family Medicine Service
• Seattle location with easy access to hiking, skiing, boating, independent film, outstanding restaurants and a vibrant theater and music scene