Curricular Highlights

Core Curriculum

• Full Spectrum Training - residents will receive a training experience that allows them to have a diverse skillset to provide equitable care including addiction medicine, procedural training, LGBTQI+, reproductive health, and much more.

• Inpatient Medicine - Robust inpatient medicine training across all 3 years of residency. We directly admit for our own clinics and staff a medicine service that provides year round care for our patients. ICU opportunities available. No 24h medicine shifts.

• OB - All residents will receive a foundational obstetrical training experience centered around Family Medicine providers that will prepare them to provide OB care. Our program routinely produces a high rate of Family Medicine providers who go on to provide OB care after residency.

• Make It Your Own - the combination of a strong adviser system and wide array of elective and Area of Concentration opportunities allows our residents to tailor their residency journey to the skills and interests they want.

Longitdunal Experiences

• Addiction Medicine

  • Residents interested in additional expertise in treating patients with substance use disorders will get further training in this work through additional patient management, training in substance use disorders, committee review work, national and/or regional conference attendance and teaching colleagues. Addiction Medicine elective is required in addition to choosing from selected scholarly activities. 

• Anti-Racism/Diversity

  • Swedish Family Medicine Residency (SFMR) continues a strong commitment to antiracism and intersectional justice. The Anti-Racism and Intersectional Justice curriculum seeks to prepare residents and faculty to: :

    • Be knowledgeable about the history of racism and intersecting forms of oppression in the United States, particularly how that history was shaped by and influences healthcare at a systems level and for individual patients. 

    • Develop a practice of ongoing self-reflection, with emphasis on personal history, privilege, and resilience. 

    • Develop and utilize skills to identify and critically respond to bias, overt racism, and microaggressions in the health care system. 

    • Advocate for individual, institutional and policy change in all areas affecting community health.  

  •  Venues where we grow these skills include: Wednesday morning conference teaching sessions, quarterly racial-affinity caucusing (RAC), and in our annual intersectional justice retreat.

  Behavioral Health

  • The behavioral health curriculum is a longitudinal curriculum with didactic sessions throughout residency training. Because primary care physicians treat up to 80% of behavioral health concerns, a major goal of the curriculum is to equip residents to confidently screen, assess, and treat a multitude of behavioral health concerns.

  Community Medicine

  • Community Medicine is a longitudinal curriculum that runs throughout all three years of training and helps develop physician leaders who are engaged and active in their communities. First year residents learn about the community medicine tracks during orientation and choose 1-2 groups to explore during the first 6 months of their first year. Second and third years continue to participate in tracks and are encouraged to pursue leadership roles. 

  • We highlight three distinct tracks chosen by our residents and faculty: Housing and Health Access & Outreach, LGBTQI+ Health, and Reproductive Justice. 

  Nursing Home at Kline Galland

  • R2 and R3 residents will follow 1-2 long-term care residents at Kline Galland nursing home, visiting them at Kline Galland every 60 days. Resident physicians also learn telephone management of the Kline Galland panel, covering weekend and weeknight calls, and care for hospitalized Kline Galland patients with the help of the geriatrics fellow and attendings.

  Oral Health

  • Residents receive a training session on Pediatric Oral Health and provide Pediatric Oral Health care through their individual clinic sites.

  Population Health

  • Swedish First Hill Family Medicine Residency trains graduates to be leaders and educators in their communities through engagement, service, and experiential learning. Our community medicine curriculum in conjunction with Population Health includes both formal and informal learning experiences with opportunities for residents to work with organizations that serve our patient population.

  Practice-based Learning

  • Resident will develop a framework to approach clinic improvement projects using quality improvement methods. Training is based in the Institute for Healthcare Improvement's "model for improvement" including focusing on PDSA cycles and AIM statements. The project should improves the quality of care delivered to patients.

  Practice Management

  • The practice management curriculum is taught throughout all three years of residency. This includes clinic-based teaching, a series of residency-wide didactic sessions, small-group interactive sessions during clinic block tailored to year in training and R3 Morning monthly during the third year of residency. Topics include: billing and coding, the basics of insurance, value-based care, effective use of the EMR, quality improvement, physician compensation, physician leadership, presentation design, and technology in practice, among others.

Elective Experiences

• SFMR provides a wide array of potential elective opportunities. Many of these rotations are already well established but we are constantly adding new experiences including customized electives for residents based on need. These include but are not limited to:

  • Addiction medicine

  • Community medicine

  • Emergency medicine

  • ENT

  • Global Health away elective

  • Global Health leadership course

  • Inpatient Pediatrics

  • Innovations in Primary Care

  • ICU

  • King County Correctional Medicine

  • Lactation

  • LGBTQI+

  • Lifestyle Medicine

  • Orthopedics & Sports Medicine

  • Ophthalmology

  • Psychiatry

  • Reproductive Health

  • Rural medicine away elective

  • Ski Patrol

  • And more!