Our innovative "Clinic First" curriculum, Specialty clinic is on the cutting edge of Family Medicine training.
We undergone major transformations in 2019 in order to train family doctors for modern practice while still balancing the need for those who choose to do full scope medicine. Each year is unique and progressively will look more and more like your future practice - preparing you for the future.
We have split inpatient and outpatient duties in the R-1 year. What this means is that if you start in the hospital in the morning you will continue inpatient duties without needing to switch mid-day. This differs significantly from traditional training methods. It allows the residents to focus their learning on one aspect of their training at a time. This increases overall clinic when compared with traditional training and allows for greater continuity and to develop stronger personal relationships with your patients.
Our second year takes the separation of inpatient and outpatient duties even farther. Second year residents spend 2 weeks in rotations with minimal outpatient clinic followed by 2 weeks of outpatient continuity clinic. This significantly increases clinic availability for continuity with your own patients. R-2 residents know that if they see a patient today they can be back in clinic in 2 weeks for follow-up.
Our Third Year Curriculum takes clinic first to its ultimate conclusion. R-3 residents do 52 individual weeks which allows for the resident to act like a practicing family physician. Some weeks you will be doing inpatient coverage with minimal clinic - analogous to a rural family practice that sees its own Inpatient/Peds/OB. Some weeks you will be doing electives - analogous to CME weeks. This is where the resident gets to hone the skills needed for their future practice type. Most weeks (32) will be in the outpatient continuity practice and specialty clinics seeing the panel that you have come to know well over the preceding 2 years.
We offer a number of "sub-specialty and procedural clinics" that are held in the residency clinic building. Many of these clinics have one resident and one attending physician. Some of our specialty clinics include:
Providence St. Peter Family Medicine is committed to teaching obstetrical care. Residents will learn from Full scope Family Medicine faculty, OB/GYN hospitalists, and community OB/GYN group. Our residency program is unopposed which allows residents to learn low to high risk obstetrical care from a variety of attendings. Some of our residents have completed Obstetric Fellowships after graduating from our program.
Our program also provides obstetric care to adolescent pregnant patients with a multidisciplinary team of providers, including residents, faculty, behavioral health providers, and nutritionists.
Residents rotate with Seattle Children's Hospitalists Inpatient team at St. Peter Hospital in addition to rounding with family medicine faculty on the SPFM service. We also have pediatric faculty that residents work and learn from in the outpatient setting. R2s have a 4 week rotation at Mary Bridge Children's Hospital Emergency Department which is a level-II pediatric trauma hospital located in Tacoma, Washington.
There is elective time in the second and third years that we encourage residents to use to complete one or more international rotations. Financial support can be easily applied for through our foundation to offset the costs of these rotations. Over the years we have had many residents travel all over the world and can help you select a site. We currently have strong relationships to hospitals in Malawi, Haiti, and Guatemala just to name a few.
SPFM views addiction medicine as a core competency of primary care and is important in its mission to serve marginalized populations. All residents receive their buprenorphine waiver certification in their R-1 year and see patients for MAT in the course of their continuity clinic panel. To supplement their training, have exposure to a community low-barrier buprenorphine clinic (the Olympia Bupe Clinic).
Our clinic uses EPIC which is connected with not only the hospital, ER, and L&D but with other institutions in the region. Residents receive EPIC training during orientation prior to starting residency as well as extra training in September of R1 year to further customize and assist with efficiency.
St Peter Family Medicine - Block Rotation Schedule |
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Year I |
Year II |
Year III |
| Ambulatory Pediatrics - 4 weeks | Ambulatory Pediatrics - 2 weeks |
Continuity Clinic/Rapid Access Clinic- 35 weeks |
| Elective- 2 weeks | Continuity Clinic - 20 weeks | GYN - 2 weeks |
| Community Medicine - 2 weeks | Advanced Family Medicine Orientation- 4 weeks | Electives - 8 weeks |
| Emergency Medicine - 4 weeks | Emergency Pediatrics, Mary Bridge, Tacoma - 4 weeks | Emergency Medicine - 1 week |
| Family Medicine Orientation - 4 weeks | Adult Inpatient Medicine - 6 weeks | Adolescent OB clinic - longitudinal for 6 months |
| GYN - 2 weeks | Night Inpatient Adult Medicine- 6 weeks | Inpatient Medicine Service - 6-7 weeks |
| Inpatient Pediatrics - 8 weeks | Specialty Clinics (listed above)- longitudinal | Orthopedics & Sports Medicine - 2 weeks |
| Orthopedics- 4 weeks | Elective - 4 weeks | Specialty Clinics (listed above) - longitudinal |
| Inpatient Adult Medicine - 8 weeks | Surgery - 2 weeks | Geriatrics, Urology, Dermatology, Nursing Home- longitudinal |
| Night OB/Pediatrics- 4 weeks |
Tribal clinic, Mobile/Street medicine clinic - longitudinal |
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Obstetrics - 6 weeks |
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