To integrate residents into the rural community and help establish Chehalis Family Medicine as their home base, continuity clinic starts at Chehalis Family Medicine beginning in their first year. Residents have full days in clinic each week during hospital rotations, even in intern year, providing opportunities to establish longitudinal relationships with their patients early on.
Residents participate in several specialty clinics within Chehalis Family Medicine including Procedure Clinic, Outpatient Based Opioid Treatment Clinic, Primary Care Psychiatric Consult Clinic, Osteopathic Manipulation Clinic, Transitional Care Management (post-hospital follow-up) Clinic, Rapid Access Clinic, and Medicare Wellness clinic.
Residents learn how to partner with their team to provide high-quality care. We believe that everyone should work to the top of their license and we implement processes that facilitate this. Pharmacy and Behavioral Health are integrated seamlessly in our clinic as well.
Residents have inpatient and obstetrical rotations in all three years to develop the skills to continue practicing full-spectrum medicine after graduation. Residents complete their first-year hospital rotations with the St. Peter Family Medicine Residency program interns at Providence St. Peter Hospital in Olympia which provides training in a larger hospital setting. Second and third-year rotations are predominately at Providence Centralia Hospital in Centralia, WA, a smaller hospital that provides more autonomy.
Wellness Curriculum
We believe that burnout is a serious problem among physicians and that wellness is key to longevity and enjoyment in the field of family medicine. We believe happy residents will love where they train and stay to practice nearby. As such, we have a robust wellness curriculum in which residents and faculty learn alongside each other how to manage the pressures of the modern medical environment.
Longitudinal Curriculum
Interspersed throughout all three years residents participate in longitudinal
experiences which allow residents time to get involved in our community
and tailor their own learning. These include:
"Our continuity clinic at Chehalis Family Medicine is a fully integrated
patient centered medical home. We have a fantastic team that includes
pharmacy and behavioral health, that is so well integrated we’ve
presented regionally and nationally on how family medicine residency programs
can integrate these specialties in their training and patient care. We
have several specialty clinics within our clinic including: a very busy
and well-run addiction program for medication assisted treatment for opioid
addiction and hepatitis c treatment, procedure clinic, osteopathic manipulation
clinic and psychiatric consult clinic. Residents are given significant
autonomy in our community hospital with strong training in full spectrum
family medicine including hospital medicine and obstetrics. Our program
has a robust wellness curriculum. Given our small size, we really get
to know our residents well and care for them like our family."
-Miguel Lee, MD, Program Director, Chehalis Family Medicine Residency
