Core Rotations

Outpatient Family Medicine

The heart and soul of our Family Medicine Residency are our clinics where residents see patients assigned to their patient panel which they will develop throughout their residency. Continuity clinics will be held at your designated Sea Mar Continuity Site either Marysville, Everett or Lynnwood.

Residents will learn how to work with a medical team to optimize patient care.

Upon graduation they will be capable of handling the daily clinical patient encounter volume expected for a typical clinic provider.

During the R-1 year residents will average 1-2 half days of clinic each week.

During the R-2 year this will increase to 2-3 half days per week.

During the R-3 year they will average 3-4 half days per week.

Continuity clinic schedules will vary according to the demands of inpatient rotation schedules.

INPATIENT ROTATIONS

All inpatient rotations will be at Providence Regional Medical Center in Everett (PRMCE).

The only exception is the 4-week Inpatient Pediatrics rotation and 4 weeks of Pediatric Emergency Medicine at Seattle Children’s Hospital in Seattle.

There is plentiful volume, allowing for some resident/faculty selection of patient types that will be optimal for the Inpatient Family Medicine Intensive rotations.

We have extra Inpatient Family Medicine and Obstetrics rotations, so residents will be well trained in these areas, graduating with the confidence to practice Inpatient Family Medicine and Obstetrics.

Core-Rotations

In order to provide residents with robust training in inpatient medicine we have developed an Inpatient Family Medicine rotation. On the service, our residents will be working with a subset of residency faculty who have a strong desire to teach and mentor. Residents will work on teams of 3-4 residents with senior residents supervising. Core inpatient family medicine didactics are given regularly each week during the rotation, and during the weekly didactics session at Sea Mar Marysville.

Residents will achieve first assist competency in caesarian sections. Labor and delivery management will include their own patients, faculty patients, and patients from other providers. Patients from other providers include other Community Health Centers FP/OB providers, other FP/OBs, hospital laborist patients, obstetricians’ patients, and Nurse Midwife patients. The exposure to a variety of obstetrical practitioner types will enhance this experience for residents. On average our R-3’s have 100 Vaginal Deliveries and 18 Primary Cesareans. Core OB didactics will be given regularly each week during the rotation, and also during the weekly block didactics at the FMP. The didactics are usually case based. Residents will be trained in basic obstetrical ultrasounds.

Residents spend one block during their first year rotating with the surgical hospitalists and outpatient surgeons. They have a busy surgical service. Residents will round, consult, and admit emergency room patients; they will also assist with surgeries (inpatient and outpatient).

Residents will have two blocks of outpatient pediatrics, one in the R-1 year and one in the R-2 year. For one block each, they will rotate at Seattle Children’s in the R-2 year for Inpatient Pediatrics and Pediatrics Emergency Medicine in the R-3 year. Seattle Children’s is the only “away” inpatient rotations (26 miles from Everett). We chose to include rotations at Seattle Children’s to maximize inpatient pediatric exposure. At Children’s, residents are on a resident team that manages typical hospitalized children. There are also regular didactic presentations. Dr. Cor Van Neil, a senior Sea Mar pediatrician, is our liaison with Seattle Children’s for this rotation. He also presents core pediatric didactics at the Marysville clinic over the three year residency.

Residents will have one block of ICU in their R-2 year and one block of NICU during their R-3 year. Both are located at Providence Regional Medical Center in Everett.

 

 

Residents spend two blocks in the R-2 and R-3 years rotating in the ER at PRMCE. This is one of the busiest ER in the state. The high patient volume on these rotations will allow the residents to see the most appropriate patients for FM residents, which will enhance the learning experience.

The majority of outpatient rotations are in Everett and the local surrounding area. Multi-specialty clinics hosting these rotations include the Providence Medical Group but we also incorporate Sea Mar’s own specialists for gyn, derm, behavioral health, cardiology, and ortho. These clinics have well-respected and experienced specialists who have a strong interest in teaching and working with our residents. We also have a community medicine rotation that includes experiences such as a syringe exchange and refugee clinic.

Each rotation has written goals and objectives, to achieve appropriate knowledge and experience germane to that area. All of the typically 2-4 week specialty rotations are with the aforementioned clinics, with a few exceptions, where there are other specialty rotations set up locally. We want the residents to have the best possible experience with each rotation.

 

Residents can set up electives with various providers and departments in the community or within Sea Mar. Elective blocks can be a mixture of multiple specialties. Examples of electives residents in the past have done are:
ER procedures, OB US, nephrology, IM, global health, ENT/allergy, psych/behavioral health, outpatient family medicine, addiction medicine, palliative care, parental newborn, urology, PM&R, vasectomy clinic, self study, planned parenthood, geriatrics