Family Medicine Residency

Training Programs

We have three unique training programs all under one UW Family Medicine Residency umbrella. Applicants can apply to any or all of our programs–the NRMP Match numbers are listed below.

• Northgate Program: Six residents per class match into the Northgate Program and have their continuity clinic at the UW Medicine Primary Care Northgate Clinic. A majority of the residency faculty also have their continuity clinic at Northgate. The Northgate clinic serves a patient population that is representative of the Northgate neighborhood and Seattle more broadly. Northgate is also the location for the residency offices.  NRMP: 1918120C0
• Harborview Program: Two residents per class match into the Harborview Program and have their continuity clinic at the Harborview Family Medicine Clinic at Harborview Medical Center (HMC). The Harborview Family Medicine clinic serves a largely underserved patient population. NRMP: 1918120C1
• Chelan Rural Training Program: The Chelan rural training track began in 2019. Residents spend their first year training in Seattle and last two years training at Columbia Valley Community Health in Chelan and Lake Chelan Health, a critical access hospital in Chelan, Washington. The two first year residents who match into the Chelan Program see patients at the Harborview Family Medicine Clinic during their first year in Seattle. NRMP: 1918120C2

Residents in all programs work in primary care clinics with diverse patient populations and train throughout the UW Medicine system and affiliated hospitals.  

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Program Highlights

The UW Family Medicine Residency curriculum provides broad spectrum training to prepare residents to care for patients in any practice setting. Program strengths and highlights are:

• Sports Medicine: Our residents train with renowned Sports Medicine faculty throughout the University of Washington, including our Husky Stadium Clinic, and have opportunities to participate in scholarship, research, and sideline sports coverage with local schools. Musculoskeletal procedures are readily available and residents gain experience performing these procedures both in our continuity and specialty clinics. 
• Reproductive Health: Our residency is a RHEDI program with integrated health education and training, including contraception management and abortion. As a RHEDI program, we incorporate a reproductive justice framework to teaching and we have dedicated faculty to support residents interested in family planning. Residents can opt-out of abortion training and alternative educational activities will be provided.
   
• Behavioral Health:Our residency is supported by a robust team of clinical psychologists who provide collaborative care in our clinics and lead behavioral health curriculum to enhance resident education. Both UWPC-Northgate and Harborview Family Medicine Clinic have consulting psychiatrists available, and our residents complete rotations in outpatient Psychiatry and our inpatient Famiily Medicine Service provides primary care consultation for the long-term behavioral health service at UWMC-Northwest. Our residents readily care for patients with mental health and substance use disorders in their continuity clinics. 
• Hospital Medicine: Our residents gain significant skill in hospital medicine through their training in the ICU, with hospitalists, and by leading our Family Medicine hospital service, which is our resident led service caring for adult medicine, obstetric, and newborn patients.
• Global Health: Our residents learn directly from our Global Health faculty and fellows, and rotate through a travel medicine clinic at UWPC-Northgate. Many residents also participate in elective rotations abroad, such as those in Malawi, Kenya, and Vietnam.