FMSW is committed to providing its residents with a broad based curriculum and a rich learning environment with an emphasis on personal resident ownership and responsibility for mentored patient care decisions. The core inpatient rotations at PeaceHealth Southwest are occur on FMSW inpatient teaching services, managed by senior residents and supervised by residency program core faculty. While attending for the inpatient services, faculty’s sole responsibility is teaching and oversight of the service. This encourages a high level of interaction and collaboration to benefit resident learning. The remainder of inpatient education is conducted by community attendings on specialty rotations such as Cardiology, GI, OB, and Critical Care/ICU. Ambulatory based learning happens both at FMSW and at private offices under the supervision of several community specialty and subspecialty physicians.
In addition to community offices, FMSW has become a more important site for Ambulatory Care education. Aside from the continuity clinics, our program offers the following:
- Procedure Clinic featuring skin excisional biopsies, I&D, nasopharyngoscopy, vasectomy, flexible sigmoidoscopy, minor ENT procedures, nail excisions, circumcision, and more.
- Endocrinology Consult Clinic
- Dermatology Consult Clinic
- GYN Consult Clinic
- GYN Procedure Clinic featuring colposcopy, LEEP, IUD insertion, endometrial biopsy/ECC, and more
- OB Ultrasound Clinic
- Anticoagulation Clinic
- Medication Consultation Clinic focusing on patients with multiple comorbidities and highly complex medication profiles, supervised by our full time clinical pharmacist
Almost all rotations are located at PeaceHealth Southwest Medical Center or offices within easy commuting distance from FMSW, facilitating noon didactic attendance and ready clinic access. Exceptions are Inpatient Pediatrics for two months in the R1 year. This occurs at Legacy Emanuel Hospital in Portland (11 miles from Vancouver). Emanuel Hospital is a tertiary care, high-volume referral center for pediatrics.
Family Medicine of Southwest Washington Rotations are based on thirteen 4-week blocks per academic year:
PGY I
- Adult Medicine 16 weeks
- Community Medicine 4 weeks
- In Patient Pediatrics 8 weeks
- Surgery 4 weeks
- Maternal-Child Health/OB 8 weeks
- Orthopedics 4 weeks
- Emergency Medicine 4 weeks
- Night Float 4 weeks
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PGY II
- Maternal-Child Health/OB 4 weeks
- Procedures with Colposcopy 8 weeks
- Pediatrics/Newborn Care 8 weeks
- ICU 4 weeks
- Elective 4 weeks
- Ambulatory Care 4 weeks
- Adult Medicine Senior 4 weeks
- Cardiology 4 weeks
- Gynecology 4 weeks
- Surgery 4 weeks
- Night Float 4 weeks
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PGY III
- Orthopedics 4 weeks
- Emergency Medicine 4 weeks
- Night Float 4 weeks
- Adult Medicine Senior 4 weeks
- Gynecology 4 weeks
- Elective 4, 4, 2, 4 week
- Dermatology 2 weeks
- Maternal-Child Health/OB 4 weeks
- Ophthalmology, Urology, ENT 4-weeks
- Health Systems Management 4-weeks
- Out Patient Pediatrics 4 weeks
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