Training Sites
The program offers broad clinical experience over a range of clinical settings. Residents will have the opportunity to provide supervised patient care at Providence Regional Medical Center Everett, a 580-bed, level 2 trauma center, and at other clinical partners.
Providence Regional Medical Center of Everett
Providence Regional Medical Center of Everett (PRMCE) is a 580-bed referral center for the five surrounding Washington state counties of Snohomish, Island, San Juan, Skagit and Whatcom. Clinical services include all relevant adult health care services except for organ transplant. There is 24/7, 365 days a year faculty coverage, providing direct supervision, assessment, and evaluation in MICU, ER, hospital wards and a variety of sub-specialty rotations. PRMCE hosts program administration including resident conferences, didactics, and all inpatient clinical experience.
Providence-WSU Internal Medicine Center
The Providence-WSU Internal Medicine Center is the residency’s flagship continuity clinic site located on campus at Providence Regional Medical Center Everett. Empaneled patients comprise a broad payor mix reflective of the broader population of Snohomish County. Residents gain experience with patients from a variety of cultural, linguistic, and economic backgrounds. Our patients tend to experience more medical and social complexity than in a typical primary care clinic, so residents gain ample experience managing high acuity issues in primary care and navigating environmental conditions that affect their patients’ health. Additionally, residents are supported by an in-house multidisciplinary clinic team including medical assistants, registered nurses, as well as members from the following disciplines: social work, pharmacy, care management, integrated behavioral health. Alongside the program’s outpatient core faculty, community preceptors supervise our residents and provide additional mentorship informed by their clinical practice and career interests.
Optum
Optum is a primary care and multi-specialty group consisting of approximately 600 providers. Optum serves the Washington counties of King and Snohomish via 30 clinical care sites. Roughly 360,000 patients with a wide spectrum of illness are cared for by Optum, which receives over one million annual visits. Optum has a culture that emphasizes quality and safety with the goal of improving patient care. Rotations at Optum include geriatrics, rheumatology, hematology/oncology, endocrinology, and personalized care team.
Western Washington Medical Group
Western Washington Medical Group is a provider-operated primary care and multi-specialty group consisting of just over 100 clinicians. Western Washington Medical Group provides care to patients in the Washington counties of Snohomish, Skagit, and Island through 20 clinical sites, encompassing patients with a range of economic backgrounds and illnesses. Rotations at Western Washington Medical Group include cardiology, gastroenterology, and pulmonary/sleep medicine. WWMG pulmonary and critical care physicians also staff the MICU/CCU at Providence Regional Medical Center Everett.
Providence Medical Group
Providence Medical Group (PMG) is a network of primary care and subspecialty providers with clinical locations throughout Washington. PMG provides care to a population of patients of varied backgrounds with a wide spectrum of illness. It has incorporated the concept of the patient centered medical home into its practice and embraced a team-based approach to the care of patients with an emphasis on patient-focused care and improved access. The residents are taught to utilize this model in their continuity clinic, which resides within PMG. It is also the site of educational activities such as continuity case conference, outpatient quality improvement projects, clinic huddles, and review of performance measures.
Pacific Medical Centers (PacMed)
Pacific Medical Centers (PMC) was established in 1933 as the Seattle Marine Service Hospital, and later was the regional Public Health referral center serving the retired military, Native American and Seattle’s immigrant communities. In 1987 PMC closed its hospital doors and shifted its focus towards developing a strong network of outpatient clinics throughout the region. Today, PMC is one of the largest multi-specialty medical groups in the Puget Sound area with nine clinics and more than 120 physicians providing primary and specialty care to a culturally diverse population. This includes a unique opportunity to provide quality, population-based care to retired service members and their families through PMC’s contract with the US Family Health Plan. Residents rotate through full days at PacMed primary care and subspecialty clinics during their ambulatory medicine blocks.
North Sound Emergency Medicine Group
North Sound Emergency Medicine is a provider-operated group partnered with Providence Regional Medical Center Everett (PRMCE) to staff and operate the emergency department. PRMCE has one of the busiest emergency departments in the state of Washington, treating more than 20,000 inpatients and approximately 95,000 emergency patients annually. The emergency department at PRMCE is also a level 2 trauma center. Residents see a wide variety of illnesses during their emergency medicine rotation and perform the initial evaluation on all patients they encounter during this month.
Everett VA Clinic
The VA Puget Sound Health Care System’s Community Clinic in Everett, Washington provides primary care and specialty health services including laboratory services, mental health care, social work, women’s health care, homeless resources, and more to enrolled Veterans. Residents interested in serving the veteran population may choose to have their primary continuity clinic site located at the VA Everett Clinic.
Lahai Health – Everett
Lahai is a nonprofit organization primarily serving patients in Washington State who are ineligible for health insurance. Residents rotate through the Lahai clinic once per month, supervised by a WSU faculty member, while on an ambulatory block. This is an excellent opportunity to observe a high-functioning, collaborative care model for patients who have barriers to accessing medical care.
Pullman Regional Hospital/Whitman Hospital and Clinics
Pullman Regional Hospital (PRH) is a 25-bed critical access hospital including emergency services, intensive care services, obstetrics, surgical services, and a variety of outpatient services. PRH also has a robust clinic network throughout the community. Located in the Palouse region of eastern Washington, the hospital overlooks Washington State University’s Pullman campus.
Third year residents spend four weeks rotating at two small critical access hospitals: Pullman Regional Hospital and Whitman Hospital & Medical Clinics. During this experience residents supervise family medicine residents at Pullman Regional on the inpatient service and function as a traditionalist at Whitman Hospital & Medical Clinics.
Yakima Valley Farm Workers Clinic
Residents can spend a month with one of WSU’s rural partners, the Yakima Valley Farm Workers Clinic. The rotation is a community based primary care experience, where residents gain exposure to a well-run and specialty-integrated Federally Qualified Health Center (FQHC), HIV and women’s health integrated into primary care, and care delivery to underserved patient populations.
Providence Breast Center
Residents can spend a full day during ambulatory block rotating with breast radiologists at the Providence Breast Center, getting exposure to and teaching about breast imaging and patients at high risk for breast cancer.