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Learn more about the Family Medicine Residency Program in Vancouver, WA.
Family Medicine of Southwest Washington (FMSW) is an unopposed community-based family medicine program committed to providing its residents with a broad based curriculum in a rich learning environment with an emphasis on fostering individual ownership and responsibility for patient care decisions through guided mentorship. The core inpatient rotations at PeaceHealth Southwest occur during FMSW inpatient teaching services, which are 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 provides a high level of interaction and collaboration to encourage resident learning. The remainder of inpatient education is conducted by community attendings on specialty rotations such as Cardiology, GI, OB and Critical Care/ICU.
The Family Medicine Residency program is a community-based residency program located in Vancouver, Washington. It is part of the University of Washington Affiliated Family Practice Residency Network and sponsored by PeaceHealth Southwest Medical Center.
Residents will be continuously evaluated for their knowledge, skills and attitudes in both the inpatient and out-patient settings. Evaluations are done at the end of each rotation and longitudinally. Evaluations are both competency and milestone based, as defined by the ACGME.
In addition to continuity clinics, the Family Medicine of Southwest Washington (FMSW) residency program includes numerous on-site specialty clinics. Specialty clinics allow residents to gain hands-on experience through responsibility combined with active mentorship.
Our program provides several areas of concentration for residents to focus in a particular area of interest during their second and third year of residency.
The primary mission of the residency program is to train family physicians for the future while enhancing the health and well-being of our community. In addition, the program is intended to provide a service to the community by meeting the medical and health care needs of the medically underserved in the Vancouver area.
Family Medicine of Southwest Washington is an 8/8/8 program. It is a three-year training program. Having completed the 36-month curriculum, residents are eligible to sit for the American Board of Family Medicine board exam. They then become board certified family physicians, and fully employable. Our program opened its doors for establishment of a clinic in 1995, and we graduated our first residents in 1997. The program is sponsored by PeaceHealth Southwest Medical Center, supported by PeaceHealth Medical Group, and is academically affiliated with the University of Washington School of Medicine.
As of June 30, 2020, we have 167 graduates:
The rest of our graduates are located mostly in the Pacific Northwest, with smaller numbers serving communities in Hawaii, Alaska, California, Utah, Arizona, New Mexico, Illinois, Missouri, Arkansas, Mississippi, New Hampshire, New York, North Carolina, and Florida. Globally, FMSW graduates have a presence in Kenya, Malawi, and Zimbabwe.
Yes. The program has an accredited Sports Medicine fellowship, fully funded by the program, training one fellow per year.
Yes, specialty clinics and curriculum offered by core residency faculty incudes:
Family Medicine of Southwest Washington sponsors interdisciplinary training in healthcare professions critical to the Patient Centered Medical Home. This includes:
FMSW serves diverse ethnic groups in Vancouver, which includes a large Latino and Russian population. FMSW focuses on other “high-needs” vulnerable populations, such as those with substance use disorder, mental illness, and homelessness. FMSW and PeaceHealth sponsor the programs below, providing residents with additional opportunities for contribution to the local community:
Since 2004, FMSW has been a leader in the Patient-Centered Medical Home environment, teaching and living in a quality improvement, advanced/open access care model. FMSW has team care pods that are protocol-driven for standardized processes. Our clinic incorporates systems-based disease management and chronic care model programs, including anticoagulation management, diabetes, medical management of chronic pain, COPD, and childhood ADHD.
FMSW’s newest PCMH enhancement is a robust model of integrated mental healthcare. Led by marriage and family therapist Layne Prest, PhD, the team consists of an inter-professional group of two MFT PhDs, six master’s level graduate student therapists, a social worker, pharmacist, care coordinator, a part time psychiatrist, and the patient’s PCP. This model optimizes bi-directional clinical integration of mental and physical health activities on site, within the context of an individual’s Family Medicine health home.
We are currently a NCQA-Recognized Level III PCMH.
Summary of Quality Improvement Efforts at FMSW since launching Advanced Access (second generation Open Access) care environment in 2004:
**Disease Management / Chronic Care Model programs, including Anticoagulation Management, Diabetes, Medical Management of Chronic Pain. All are Interdisciplinary, LPN-managed. Ongoing since their development and launch.