Medical Students

Medical Student Rotations:

A Few Things to Note

Medical Students training with one of our preceptors must have an active Affiliation Agreement between Providence Swedish prior to and their medical school to onboarding for a clinical rotation.
Please have student's education coordinator from their medical school contact GME to ensure this is in place.
Swedish GME does not provide placements with preceptors for students. Please work with your home institution/program administrator or coordinator for rotation setup. In the event that your home institution also does not do placements, and has not engaged a preceptor for your specialty, you can search for one through our medical staff listing.
Persons under the age of 18 are not allowed to do observerships or a student rotation. Instead, please contact Volunteer Services.

Swedish GME offers exemplary hands-on learning experiences to regional and national medical students.
The Swedish GME office offers learning experiences for the following student types:

Medical Student (MD or DO)
Physician Assistant Student (PA)
Podiatry Student (DPM)

If you are a Pharmacy Student, please email the Pharmacy Coordinator.

If you are a health care student not listed above, please email Swedish Clinical Education. If you are arranging a rotation as a candidate for Nurse/Nurse Practitioner or Allied Health Professional (e.g., medical assistant, radiology technician, physical therapist, audiologist, etc.) please email the Clinical Education team.

Medical students are learners enrolled in a University or Medical College program culminating in medical degree: MD/DO, PA, or DPM.

Student Registration Process

If you are arranging for a rotation as a candidate for MD/DO, DPM, PA, Graduate Medical Education (GMEOnboarding@swedish.org) handles your onboarding. Your home institution coordinator must contact GME to ensure we have an active Affiliation Agreement with your medical school.

Students must work with their home institution/program to be setup for a rotation at Providence Swedish. Home institutions/programs must have and existing preceptor who has agreed to train their student and an active Affiliation Agreement in order for Swedish GME to process a rotation application.

PLEASE NOTE- If your home institution/program does not have an agreement with one of our providers as a Preceptor we cannot go forward with an Affiliation Agreement. If your medical school does not handle placements, please visit swedish.org/physicians to find a provider and contact them directly to arrange placement. GME is not authorized to provide emails for our medical staff listed on this site.

Swedish GME office does NOT handle placements with providers.

New Affiliation Agreements

Affiliation Agreements are required to be active for all schools prior to the beginning of the rotation; please verify that your institution has an agreement in place with Swedish Health Services dba Swedish Medical Center (in Washington State) before applying.

The Swedish Graduate Medical Education (GME) Office will gladly facilitate a new agreement with your school prior to your rotation. Please have the appropriate contact at your school reach out to GMEOnboarding to begin this process. Allow 8-12 weeks prior to your rotation to fully execute the agreement and complete the onboarding process.

Rotation Set-Up

After your home institution has secured a preceptor for your training and completed all Affiliation Agreement requirements, you will receive an email communication instructing you to complete an Onboarding Checklist, which will request Required Documents/ Immunizations and eLearning modules. Please complete this checklist as soon as possible, but no later than two weeks before your proposed rotating start date.

Questions?
Please contact the Swedish Graduate Medical Education office if you need further information.
Phone: 206-320-5301
GMEOnboarding

Medical Student Resources

Our onboarding specialist Janice L. Getchell is available to assist with any medical student clinical rotation question or inquiries.

Janice Getchell (She/Her/Hers) Onboarding Specialist

Research Students

All students participating in research must have a designated preceptor approved by the Providence Swedish Center of Research and Innovations.
Please see attached Research Preceptor Agreement for required signatures and approval.
No remote access is allowed for our research students.
Once the preceptor agreement has been signed/dated by all parties, please send directly to the GME Education Coordinator Janice L. Getchell
Please return agreement to GME at least 6 weeks prior to the research start date to ensure all access
and security clearance is complete.
We will need to confirm if we have a current Affiliation Agreement with researchers’ home institution.
GME will reach out to the students’ home institution for student information and start the onboarding process complete with Epic access and security clearance.

SCRI email contact Donielle O'Connor
Donielle.O'connor@swedish.org

Janice Getchell (She/Her/Hers) Onboarding Specialist

Agreement

Research Learner Preceptor Agreement

Paramedic Learner

MEDIC ONE

Paramedic onboarding at Swedish Providence is a lot like our medical student protocol. The medical school who would like to bring paramedic student to Providence Swedish to train, will need to reach out independently to our medical staff and contract with a provider to be their preceptor.

We will need an active Affiliation Agreement with the medical school prior to onboarding the students.
Affiliation Agreements can take Paramedic onboarding does not require Epic training and access for patientcharting.
They do require security clearance and badge access during their clinical rotation.
Please reach out to GME for further inquiries about Paramedic Learners.

Our onboarding specialist Janice L. Getchell is available to assist with any paramedic clinical rotation question or inquiries.

Janice Getchell (She/Her/Hers) Onboarding Specialist
Phone: 206-320-5301
GMEOnboarding