Sea Mar Training Site
Sea Mar Community Health Center, located seven miles south of Swedish/Cherry Hill , is part of a large and successful community health center dedicated to the care of the medically underserved Latino population of Seattle. In 1976, a group of Latino community leaders began to look at how best to address the health-care needs of the Spanish-speaking community relative to accessibility and cost. A free clinic, staffed by volunteers, was established in the Rainier Valley area of Seattle. With approximately $300,000 in funding from the federal government, the Seattle Clinic was purchased in 1978 from a retiring private-practice physician.
The residency program obtained funds in 1987 to begin a satellite Family Medicine residency site at Sea Mar Community Health Center. This pioneering collaborative effort between a community health center and an established residency program provides excellent training to residents while successfully addressing the shortage of family physicians leaders in community health centers. This site, with its particular focus, is ideal for residents who desire a great deal of with proficiency in Spanish language as well as bilingual/bicultural individuals.
All in-hospital rotations for Sea Mar residents are the same as for residents at the Swedish/Cherry Hill unit, while their ambulatory clinic practice takes place at Sea Mar Community Health Center. The Sea Mar clinic provides high volume training in OB, pediatrics and ambulatory medicine. Experienced family physicians will precept and guide you in learning to care for a wide variety of of complex patients in an efficient and evidence based manner. Sea Mar’s nursing home is the site for Cherry Hill’s continuity nursing home training. Sea Mar resident’s are encouraged to be a part of the yearly community service programs supported by Sea Mar such as Fiestas Patrias, the Latino Health Forum and a yearly Holiday party.
Sea Mar has more than 75,000 active records and more than 156,000 patient encounters per year. The patient population is a predominance of uninsured and Medicaid patients. A large percentage of Hispanic (50 percent), Southeast Asian and other minorities utilize the community health center. Sea Mar operates additional migrant health centers in the Puget Sound area — in Mt. Vernon, Marysville, Bellingham, Olympia, Tacoma, Vancouver, Puyallup, Everson and Puyallup, Aberdeen, and Vancouver which serve large migrant and seasonal farm-worker populations as well as the urban poor. Residents who are interested also have the opportunity to do obtain elective experience at these clinics.
A separate NRMP Match number 1755120C4 must be used when ranking the Sea Mar satellite program. And applicants should mark the Sea Mark track designation when applying to the Swedish/Cherry Hill Program through ERAS.
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Fiesta Patrias is an annual Seattle event put on by Sea Mar Community Health Centers.
