Acute Dental Care

  • Gain a basic understanding of common dental urgencies/emergencies and their treatment, head and neck anatomy as it pertains to understanding the spread of infection of odontogenic origin and understand the urgency for treatment of odontogenic infection based on presentation, location and history.

Addiction Medicine

  • Become more familiar in the diagnosis and treatment of substance use disorders as well as identifying community resources available to patients with substance use disorders.

Community Medicine

  • Gain familiarity of common health challenges faced by people experiencing homelessness, community resources to improve patient care of acute/chronic illnesses, while dealing with barriers to accessing health care, and develop an approach to health care that is more person-centered and consider alternative models of health care delivery.  

Emergency Medicine

  • Develop an understanding of criteria for hospitalization versus outpatient therapy of patients with non-life threatening diseases, gain an understanding of when to consult specialist to assist with emergency patient management, and learn to order appropriate, cost-effective diagnostic tests for acute medical conditions.

ENT

  • Become more familiar with common primary care ENT conditions including ear pain, Otitis media and externa, hearing loss, tinnitus, and dizziness.

Global Health (International)

  • Work within the current government health system in Malawi to model Family Medicine presence in the government health system, demonstrate full spectrum, patient centered integrated care while working within the structure of health care providers at Mangochi District Hospital, help to create teamwork within the hospital, and when appropriate, teach medical students and residents who are studying family medicine.

Global Health Leadership Course

  • Learn global health skills necessary to become future leaders in the field. This course is comprised of several different components including field visits to local GH organizations, lectures, case studies, and small group discussions. It focuses on three major areas: global health knowledge, global health leadership skills, clinical skills in resource-limited settings.

Inpatient Pediatrics

  • Residents will see inpatients along with Pediatric Hospitalist Team, manage common pediatric medical conditions associated with inpatient admission, and coordinate with pediatric consult services and social working teams.

Innovations in Primary Care (IPC)

  • Immersion experience in an innovative primary care clinic (e.g. Iora, Vera Whole Health) coupled with didactics teaching about primary care innovation and leadership. Discussions will be led by local leaders with potential guest speakers who are involved in promoting primary care innovation nationally.

Intensive Care

  • Admit new patients and manage existing patients through their ICU stay, under the supervision of the intensivist. Work closely with all members of the ICU interdisciplinary team, participate in all interdisciplinary rounds and in family meetings, and complete the required readings for the rotation.

Iora Health Care Innovation

  • Residents will gain practical experience working in an innovative health care delivery model. Participants will participate in all facets of health care delivery at Iora Health and develop a better understanding of team-based primary care.

King County Correctional Facility Family Medicine

  • Understand the complex medical, psychiatric and social justice issues faced by jail patients and how to best care for the patients during incarceration and once transitioned back to their community and consider correctional medicine as an avenue to care for underserved and vulnerable patients upon residency completion.

Lactation

  • Develop the skills and confidence to help breastfeeding infants and their birth parents by understanding the benefits of breastfeeding, including specific components of breastmilk and decreased incidence of specific acute/chronic illnesses, the risks and benefits of pain management for laboring and postpartum parents, the safety of medications during breastfeeding.  

LGBTQI+

  • Develop competency in the following areas: ability to utilize medical knowledge applicable to LGBTQI+ care relative to current level of training, provide patient-centered and quality care by partnering with patients to counsel, inform, educate and support all patients in LGBTQI+ care, including those with chronic and acute/urgent issues seen in the outpatient setting. Develop meaningful, constructive, therapeutic relationships with patients by identifying barriers through self-reflection on biases while communicating effectively with patients, communities and the healthcare team, understand impact of medical recommendations on LGBTQI+ patients and the care provided to the LGBTQI+ community, and advocate for individual and community health in regard to the LGBTQI+ community.

Lifestyle and Integrative Medicine

  • Become familiar with evidence-based resources of lifestyle medicine and complementary and alternative medicine (CAM) and be able to incorporate into clinical practice, understand the 6 pillars of lifestyle medicine and feel comfortable counseling patients on making fundamental lifestyle changes, describe basic CAM modalities proven to decrease morbidity or mortality in common outpatient conditions, learn about cost-conscious care in a community clinic setting and when and how to incorporate referrals to complementary and alternative medicine practitioners. 

Nephrology

  • Become more familiar with common primary care nephrology conditions, and understand the grading scale of renal failure and appropriate management at each level.

Obstetrics

  • Work with the OB hospitalist team for labor management, deliveries, triage visits, and C-section assists, provide labor deck support and supervision to new R1s as they begin their obstetrics experience. Develop R2 teaching and supervisory skill while teaching critical skills to R1s through direct, hands-on teaching and one-on-one observation.

Ophthalmology

  • The resident will become more familiar with common primary care ophthalmology conditions, and understand when and how to refer patients for specialist eye care.

Orthopedics & Sports Medicine

  • Through a two year longitudinal curriculum, residents will become competent to diagnose, treat and manage musculoskeletal conditions that present to primary care. The sports medicine elective can help you augment and fill in the gaps of your MSK knowledge.

Outpatient Palliative Care

  • Residents will work alongside outpatient palliative care specialists in consult clinics to evaluate patient’s physical needs and need for psychological & spiritual support while dealing with their serious illness.

Parenting

  • This is an elective for residents who become new parents during residency. It was created to provide a time-flexible elective that respects the challenges and demands of parenting a young infant while allowing the resident to expand their expertise in patient-centered management of pregnancy, post-partum and newborn care. This is accomplished through a reading and research requirement that will include a review of the relevant medical literature relating to childbirth and parenting while experiencing these states personally. The resident will also share their new expertise with their resident and faculty colleagues in a formal teaching setting.

Psychiatry

  • Opportunity to work alongside psychiatrists and DNPs in providing high-quality mental health care to vulnerable populations in the community. Residents will complete this rotation with our community partner at Sound, which is one of King County’s most comprehensive providers of mental health and addiction treatment services.

Pulmonary Medicine

  • The resident will become more familiar with common primary care pulmonary conditions like asthma, atelectasis, bronchitis, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, emphysema, lung cancer, pneumonia, pulmonary edema, pneumothorax, and pulmonary embolus.

Refugee Health

  • Residents will understand the medical, social, and legal context of refugee and asylee health, and have the clinical competency and awareness of local resources to better care and advocate for these families.

Reproductive Health

  • Demonstrate competency in the following areas: appropriate knowledge about family planning and abortion care relative to his/her current level of training, perform appropriate procedures to meet the needs of patients and gain knowledge about these procedures, i.e. counseling, ultrasound, cervical block, surgical AB techniques, etc. Develop meaningful, therapeutic relationships with patients while communicating effectively with patients and the healthcare team and engage in self-directed learning and demonstrates ability to acquire new skills in family planning and abortion care

Rural Health

  • We support a number of rural health elective opportunities. Please note that each of these requires substantial advanced planning (4-6 months) to ensure these sites have available space and you have time to complete the required paperwork and state licensing. See below for additional details about each site.

Ski Patrol

  • Learn essential anatomy and utilize that knowledge to recognize common orthopedic injuries, learn treatments of common orthopedic injuries, successfully triage injuries in a resource limited environment, communicate with ski patrol staff and physicians in a clear and efficient manner

Urology

  • The resident will become more familiar with common primary care urology conditions.