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§ Family Medicine Service with adult, pediatric
and OB admissions attended by family medicine faculty.
§ Innovative outpatient and inpatient pediatrics
training, plus adolescent and newborn rotations.
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Front-loaded curriculum and family-supportive
residency that is well-known for fun learning environment and residents and
faculty who value humane residency training and life balance.
§ Nightfloat call system with maximum 13-hour
shifts on Family Medicine and OB rotations. Only 6 weeks of q4 overnight call
during R1 year (during Children’s Hospital inpatient rotation)
§ Opportunities to serve urban underserved
patients through satellite clinics, 45th Street and Downtown Family Medicine,
street youth clinic, Healthcare For The Homeless Network, flu shot clinics at
homeless shelters.
§ International rotation
experience for up to 3 residents in their third year at established sites in Kenya, Nicaragua or
Peru. New sites in development.
§ Specialty focus on Geriatrics, including nursing home and
assisted living care, hospice/palliative care and multidisciplinary geriatric
training, with
Geriatrics Track and Fellowship options.
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Weekly resident social gatherings after
Tuesday didactics.
§ Excellent training in OB, with large number (average 70-120)
of vaginal deliveries in supportive atmosphere, ready back-up of OB Fellows.
Additional training in high-risk OB and C-section assist
through the OB
Area of Concentration.
§ Pocket PCs provided by residency with internet
access, InfoRetriever, and videos of procedures.
§
ICU rotation R2 year working directly with intensivist
attendings.
§ Location in
Seattle with easy access to hiking, skiing,
boating, independent film, vibrant theater and music scene.
§ Program-wide emphasis on community involvement
and leadership, with many residents, faculty and grads who are leaders in the
community.
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Procedure training, including colposcopy,
vasectomy, circumcisions, skin excisions, etc.
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Areas of Concentration in Psychiatry,
Obstetrics, Wilderness Medicine and International Medicine wherein residents
spend elective time during R2 and R3 years subspecializing in a given area.
§ Two-week intensive behavioral medicine training R2 year with
staff psychologists in agenda setting, motivational interviewing, brief
cognitive behavioral therapy.
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Supportive hospital with bonuses that make life easier (free
parking, food laundry and bus passes, family-friendly call rooms) |
