Overview

The Sea Mar Marysville FMR Obstetrics Fellowship is a partnership between Sea Mar Community Health Centers and Providence Regional Medical Center Everett Obstetrics and Gynecology department. It is a one-year experience focused on high-risk and surgical obstetrics with two fellows per year.

Fellows serve as junior faculty at Sea Mar, independently caring for their own panel of family medicine patients and precepting residents in their continuity clinic. They also work with FM OB faculty at Sea Mar for complicated OB clinics and ultrasound clinics performing early dating, anatomic screening, and growth ultrasounds. In the hospital, fellows serve as attendings with Sea Mar OB patients and teach residents labor management and delivery, with Sea Mar attendings available as backup at all times. Fellows also operate with Sea Mar FM-OB attendings as primary surgeon on Sea Mar C-sections.

Fellows are supervised by Providence OB/Gyn physicians while working on labor & delivery, where they gain valuable skills in management of high-risk OB patients and surgical obstetrics. Fellows work with residents on OB/Gyn patients as well and serve as the junior attending with these often-complex patients, working closely with the OB/Gyn attending. They act as primary surgeon on the majority of C-sections with OB/Gyn, assisting on more complicated cases.

Skills and Experience

Experience varies, but the following are projections from our first cohort of fellows during their fellowship year:

-C/S primary – 86-100

-Vaginal deliveries – 45-58

-Assisted vaginal deliveries – 5-15

-Fellows also gain experience with skills such as external cephalic version, breech delivery, twin delivery, and assisting on cesarean myomectomy and hysterectomy.

The fellowship has a unique alternating week schedule, with every other week spent on labor and delivery and the alternating week spent in clinic. On labor & delivery weeks, fellows complete 3-5 shifts varying from 12 hours to 24 hours in length. Clinic weeks are split between Sea Mar family medicine clinics and Providence OB clinics. Fellows may also opt to add other experiences such as Family Medicine Teaching Service attending weeks, NICU shifts, ER shifts, and office procedure clinics.

Fellows take part in monthly didactics and skills workshops with FM-OB as well as OB/Gyn faculty. They also work with FM-OB faculty and present to residents at their bimonthly OB focused didactics and ALSO provider course. Fellows are involved with quality improvement work at the hospital and clinic level and participate in relevant hospital committees. Each fellow is required to complete a quality improvement project of their own choice during their fellowship year.

Schedule:

The fellowship has a unique schedule with alternating weeks spent on the labor floor and in clinic. On labor &
delivery weeks, fellows complete 5 shifts varying from 12 hours to 24 hours in length. Fellows may opt to add other experiences such as Family Medicine Teaching Service attending weeks, NICU rotations, and office procedure clinics.

Teaching:

Fellows take part in monthly didactics and skills workshops with FM-OB and OB/GYN faculty. They also work with FM-OB faculty and present to residents at their bimonthly OB-focused didactics and ALSO provider course. Fellows are involved with quality improvement work and participate in relevant hospital committees.

OB Fellowship Director:

Dr. Anne Camber is an obstetrician with Providence Medical Group at Providence Pavilion for Women and Children. She is from Oakland, California and has an undergraduate degree in Genetics from the University of California at Berkeley. Her medical degree is from the Medical College of Wisconsin in Milwaukee. She completed residency at Kaiser Permanente in Oakland California. She has extensive experience with both inner city and rural medicine, having practiced in both Stockton, California and Libby, Montana. She enjoys teaching obstetrics to residents and medical students.

OB FELLOWSHIP APPLICATION

We will begin accepting applications for the 2025-2026 academic year on June 1st, 2024. The applications materials listed below should be sent to MarysvilleResidency@seamarchc.org. Applications are considered on a first-come, first-served basis. Applicants must have completed a 3-year ACGME-accredited Family Practice Residency and obtain an unrestricted Washington State medical license and DEA by the beginning of the fellowship. Applicants should have their applications completed by August 15th to receive full consideration. Interviews will occur in September and additional interviews will be scheduled if all spots are not filled. 

APPLICATION MATERIALS

-CV

-Personal Statement/Narrative: Brief autobiographical sketch including career aims

-Deans letter/MSPE (unofficial copies accepted)

-Medical school transcript (unofficial copies accepted)

-Results of USMLE, COMLEX or other licensing exams completed (unofficial copies accepted)

-2 letters of recommendations, one of which is from your Program Director 

Prior Fellows’ Destinations after Graduation:

2020-2021