The University of Washington Family Medicine Residency is an academic urban training program in Seattle, Washington with rural regional training opportunities.
As one of the oldest and largest Family Medicine departments in the nation, we have an accomplished faculty with a broad range of clinical, educational, advocacy, research, and scholarly interests. Members of the residency raculty are deeply involved in resident education, and nearly all physician faculty in the department participate in resident education by precepting in one of the two residency clinics (Harborview an Northgate) and attending with the residents on the Family Medicine inpatient service at the UW Medical Center Northwest.
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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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 our renowned Sports Medicine faculty at the Husky Stadium clinic and have opportunities for scholarship and research in Sports Medicine.
Reproductive Health and Abortion Training: We are a RHEDI abortion training site. Our residents and faculty are involved in reproductive health advocacy and research.
Behavioral Health: Residents gain experience at the Addiction Medicine Clinic. Residents work with our Behavioral Health Interdisciplinary Program (BHIP) team including Behavioral Health faculty and a consulting Psychiatrist at the Northgate clinic. Residents provide Medication Assisted Treatment int their continuity clinic. Our Family Medicine Service is the primary hospital medicine consulting service for long-term behavioral health admissions at UWMC-Northwest.
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 are rotate through the Travel Medicine clinic at the Northgate Clinic and can participate in elective rotations abroad. Most recently residents have gravitated towards well developed opportunities in Malawi and Kenya.
UW Family Medicine is the home of the Family Medicine Residency Network (FMRN), which is comprised of Family Medicine residency programs throughout the five states WWAMI (Washington, Wyoming, Alaska, Montana, and Idaho) region.
The FMRN provides resources and support to residencies throughout the region. Faculty, Program Directors, and Administrators across WWAMI interact and share resources and experiences to make all the FMRN programs stronger. Opportunities for our residents to complete elective rotations at other WWAMI sites are readily available.
Family Medicine in the Pacific Northwest
Family Physicians in the Pacific Northwest enjoy a wide scope of practice and find rewarding and fulfilling careers in many different types of practice setting.
In 2020 our residents and faculty were deployed to more settings to combat COVID-19 than any other specialty. Our residents received recognition and praise from the UW Medicine community for volunteering more shifts in the COVID ICU’s than any other training program despite our small size.