Longitudinal Curriculum

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Lifestyle medicine is interspersed throughout the curricula and residents can opt to pursue further training throughout residency to become board-certified in Lifestyle Medicine through the American College of Lifestyle Medicine (ACLM).

In conjunction with St Peter Family Medicine Residency, residents have longitudinal didactics in Point of Care Ultrasound and can utilize these skills in continuity clinic and on Emergency Medicine rotations.

Residents have elective time to pursue additional training with specialists or in other areas to tailor their learning. Common elective experiences include: Sport Medicine, Physical Therapy, Urgent Care, Wound Care, Dermatology, ENT and Lactation Medicine. 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.
There are opportunities to participate in gender affirming care through the Transgender speciality clinic at our sister program 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 are encouraged to immerse themselves in the local community; some experiences being incorporated into the curriculum, but also plenty of support for extracurricular involvement.
One of the most significant community medicine experiences is with MedsFirst, discussed above in Addiction Medicine.
Residents also rotate with a free clinic in Centralia, Health and Hope which has a particular interest in serving uninsured members of our community.
Our community medicine opportunities are recovering from a temporary pause during COVID, and we are excited to re-engage with home visits, mass sports physicals, and local sporting events, like the Seattle-to-Portland bike race.