Faculty Coordinator: Ben Davis, MD
Community Medicine is a longitudinal curriculum in the R2 and R3 year. In May preceding the start of the academic year, interns will chose one of the three core active Community Medicine Tracks. R2s will become involved with Community Medicine tracks during their second year, but will be expected take leadership roles in these tracks in their third year.
For each track, residents will meet with their faculty mentor and graduating R3 to define the project for the coming year. The rising R2 and R3 joining their new track will write a Strategic Plan for their respective track, in consultation with the faculty mentor.
In all cases, these projects need to be substantive, meaningful, and result in a measurable contribution to the identified community. The projects should be multi-year efforts that are maintained by the R3 class.
R3s will present a brief description of their work in May, and recruit and orient interns who will soon be R2s to their particular track.
Residents will write a status report for their projects by June 25 of each academic year.
New tracks can be developed with faculty mentors, to support an Area of Concentration or special curricular interest.
Core Community Medicine Tracks:
Track 1: Ethiopian Community Outreach
Background: Local / Global Health: Our residency is dedicated to providing the highest quality care to recent immigrants to our city, and cares for many members of Seattle’s growing Somali and Ethiopian communities. We are also involved in expanding global health efforts in Africa. This track combines the understanding of global health issues in developing countries, and the delivery of culturally appropriate immigrant health care.
Ethiopian Community Outreach (Faculty mentor: Karl Dietrich)
Goal – partner with the Ethiopian Community leaders to better understand and meet the health needs of the community in Central SeattleProcess:
· Swedish Family Medicine will establish relationship with community leaders and partner with KCPH for assistance in this outreach
· Meet with at least 2 focus groups and conduct a survey using the KCPH survey tool (See Appendix 1).
· Engage our physicians in regular meetings with a liaison from the Ethiopian community to update us on new issues that arise over time. Ideally meetings would occur every quarter.
· Identify educational opportunities (in both directions) to teach our physicians about cultural nuances surrounding health issues and for our physicians to share health information with community members or target groups.
Track 2. WAFP Leadership
Background: Advocacy and Family Medicine Leadership; There are two tracks in this section. Our residency is committed to mentoring leadership skills and advocacy to help family physicians promote the goal of excellent health and health care for all, especially the most vulnerable members of our diverse community.
WAFP Leadership (Faculty mentor: Mark Johnson)
The Washington Academy of Family Physicians track will give one resident experience serving as part of an organized medical society at the state level. The organization sets policy that reflects the values of all family docs in Washington and gives family doctors a voice in negotiations with insurance plans, government entities and hospitals. The resident will attend the semi- annual board meetings in SeaTac, the annual student and resident retreat, and the annual House of Delegates meeting in Cle Elum. The resident must participate in one of the WAFP committees (Government affairs, mentorship, public health, or practice transformation) and should consider running for resident delegate / alternate delegate on the WAFP Board of Directors. The resident should help inform the residency about key issues taking place at the state level.
Track 3. AAFP Leadership
Background: Advocacy and Family Medicine Leadership; There are two tracks in this section. Our residency is committed to mentoring leadership skills and advocacy to help family physicians promote the goal of excellent health and health care for all, especially the most vulnerable members of our diverse community.
AAFP (Faculty mentor: Kevin Wang)
The AAFP Leadership track will allow residents to explore the world of organized medicine on a national level reflecting the perspectives of the over 100000 family physician members in the AAFP. There are a number of meetings starting from the Medical Student/Resident Annual Meeting to the National Conference for Special Constituencies to the Congress of Delegates held with the Annual Scientific Assembly each year. Our residents will participate in these meetings and conference calls to experience how the AAFP works both behind the scenes and how we present ourselves as an organization. Most importantly, however, is to take these experiences back to their local communities to help implement these changes to help impact the health of our patients and communities.
Goals:
The resident will actively engage one of our core communities as physician educator and leader.
Objectives:
1. Medical Knowledge
The resident will learn how to assess community needs.
The resident will learn leadership skills to be applied in patient communities and medical societies.
The resident will learn to be advocacy skills in local government, and in local and national medical societies.
2. Patient Care:
The resident will exercise the skills in thinking about and caring for patient communities, rather than individuals in clnic.
The resident will gain competence in providing medical education to populations for whom English is not a first language.
3. Interpersonal and Communication Skills:
The resident will gain competence in communicating with representatives and lobbyists.
4. Professionalism:
Residents will become leaders in Family Medicine while working with communities and with professional societies.
5. Systems-based Practice
Residents will work with larger communities to help effect broad level changes in patient health.
Community Medicine Reading List
Seattle King County PHRC PowerPoint
Reviewed and Updated: 5/11/2017, Jorge Garcia
Effective: 6/25/2017-06/24/2018