Graduate Medical Education at the University of Washington School of Medicine consists of 85 ACGME accredited and 2 ABOG approved residency and fellowship programs as well as numerous non-accredited fellowship programs and involves approximately 1,500 residents and fellows based at the University of Washington. In addition, the Affiliated Family Medicine Residency Network consists of over 300 residents based in 18 sites across the five-state region.
There are three distinct models for Graduate Medical Education across the WWAMI region.
Community Based - UW Affiliated
Family Medicine Residency Network
The Family Medicine Residency Network, established in 1972 by the UW Department of Family Medicine, now comprises 18 programs across the five-state WWAMI region and more than 300 residents.
This program has played an important part in the recognition of the University of Washington School of Medicine by US News & World Report as No. 1 in Family Medicine and Rural Medicine over the last 17 years.
Internal Medicine Spokane
Internal Medicine Spokane is a fully accredited, three-year internal medicine residency program academically affiliated with the University of Washington School of Medicine and located in Spokane. Training is at Deaconess Medical Center and Sacred Heart Medical Center.
Regional Tracks
The University of Washington School of Medicine has two residency training programs with regional training tracks located in the WWAMI region. The University of Washington Psychiatry Residency Training Program; has two Advanced Clinician tracks; Spokane and Boise. Residents spend the first two years of residency in Seattle and the second two years in Spokane, based at Sacred Heart Medical Center, Spokane Mental Health and Deaconess Medical Center and Boise, based at Boise VA Medical Center, St. Alphonsus Regional Medical Center, St. Luke's Regional Medical Center and the Family Medicine Outpatient Clinic.
Regional Resident Rotations
Residents participating in accredited programs in GME at the University of Washington also do four to eight week rotations within the WWAMI region during their course of study.
Since 1973, the Department of Pediatrics has required a two-month rotation within regional community-based sites. Currently these sites are located in Port Angeles, Washington; Yakima, Washington; Bellingham, Washington; and Pocatello, Idaho. Each of the department's residents completes this two-month rotation during their second year of residency. Residents report this to be one of the most valuable experiences of their entire three years of training. See more at the Pediatric Residency Training Program site.
In addition, the departments of Medicine, Obstetrics and Gynecology, Surgery and Otolaryngology/Head and Neck Surgery provide resident rotations on an elective basis to students. These individually arranged rotations occur at sites located across the WWAMI region.