Longitudinal Curriculum

Addiction Medicine Curriculum

• Our addiction medicine curriculum includes:
  • Buprenorphine training early in R1 year
  • Didactics and workshops throughout all three years
  • Caring for patients in our Outpatient Based Opioid Treatment specialty clinic at Chehalis Family Medicine
  • Caring for patients through our community partnership with Gather Church's Meds First Low Barrier Buprenorphine clinic and syringe exchange and with Olympia Buprenorphine Clinic
  • Participation in community partnership with Lewis County Drug Court

Community Medicine

• Residents are encouraged to immerse themselves in the local community; some experiences are incorporated into the curriculum, but there is also plenty of support for extracurricular involvement.
• One of the most significant community medicine experiences is with MedsFirst at Gather Church, discussed above in Addiction Medicine.
• As part of an elective, residents can also rotate with a free clinic in Centralia, Health and Hope which has a particular interest in serving uninsured members of our community.
• Our residents also have opportunities to engage in home visits, mass sports physicals, and providing care to athletes at local sporting events, like the Seattle-to-Portland bike race.

Electives and Global Health Experiences

• Residents have elective time to tailor their learning toward their career goals. We are very open to finding new elective opportunities and will support residents in finding additional training related to their particular interests. With the recent ACGME changes that increased elective time, this is a growing portion of the curriculum.
• Electives can be spent with specialists (orthopedics, sports medicine, cardiology, etc.) or other healthcare professionals such as physical therapists, chiropractors, midwives, lactation consultants, and more.
• There are opportunities to participate in gender affirming care through the Transgender specialty clinic at St. Peter Family Medicine. Residents also receive didactics about gender affirming care to gain competency in caring for transgender patients.
• Residents can do away electives for Global Health Experiences. We have established relationships with rotations in Kenya, Guatemala and Haiti, to name a few.
• Residents participating in the OB Track are encouraged to use elective time for additional obstetrical rotations.