Rural Track Program- Port Angeles, WA

RTT Program where the 1st year is spent in Seattle at the Swedish Cherry Hill Family Medicine Residency.  The second and third years are located in Port Angeles at the North Olympic Healthcare Network and Olympic Medical Center.  Port Angeles is a rural community located about 3 hours west of Seattle on the North Olympic Peninsula.  The program is aimed at training family physicians to able to practice broad spectrum family medicine in rural and under served environments.

Unique Features

  • High volume rural clinical site in a federally qualified health center committed to providing care to the underserved
  • Full spectrum family medicine including high risk and surgical OB
  • High volume of clinic and hospital procedures including colposcopy and upper and lower endoscopy for interested learners
  • Busy sole community hospital with great specialty support and inpatient teaching (General Surgery, Orthopedics, Hospitalist)
  • Lovely rural community tucked between the mountains and the sea with many outdoor recreational opportunities
  • Integrated behavioral health and Medication Assisted Treatment (MAT) program in clinic with addiction medicine faculty
  • Active medical student longitudinal clerkship site with residents involved with inpatient and outpatient teaching

 

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