Faculty Coordinator: Kevin Wang, MD

Introduction

Swedish First Hill Family Medicine understands the importance of family planning and reproductive health in any community.  Our residency program offers training with community providers to gain further knowledge in family planning and procedures related to reproductive health so our residents can provide this very important aspect of reproductive health.  We have opportunities available in the Seattle area for you to pursue.  

Goals & Objectives

This area of concentration will provide you with additional clinical opportunities to gain further experiences in providing reproductive health care to your patients both in a clinical and nonclinical setting.

Clinical setting

  • Planned Parenthood of the Great Northwest and Hawaiian Islands (PPGNHI)

    • Beginner rotation

      • This allows particularly interested residents in the beginning stages of their training to gain additional hands on experience

      • There are limited spots each year so the class comes together to decide how these spots are divided

      • Your training will be over the course of the academic year as a longitudinal experience

      • It is strongly encouraged for the resident to participate in the CREATE curriculum

    • Advanced rotation

      • This is an advanced experienced where you'll have greater autonomy and will also teach medical students/residents

      • This will also be over the course of the academic year for a longitudinal experience

      • A resident must complete the beginner rotation and participate in the CREATE curriculum (see below)

      • There are fewer spots for the advanced rotation and will be chosen amongst those who completed the beginner rotation

  • Cedar River Clinics

    • A longitudinal experience in the third year is possible after a meet and greet with their medical director, Dr. Deb Oyer

  • All Women's Health 

    • This is an advanced opportunity to get second trimester exposure

    • Please contact Kevin for additional information including address, contact info and scheduling time

Nonclinical setting

  • CREATE

    • CREATE stands for Continuing Reproductive Education for Advanced Training Efficacy.  it's a structured curriculum to address the barriers between training and future reproductive health provisions.

    • Swedish Family Medicine - First Hill is part of a collaboration with Swedish Family Medicine - Cherry Hill, University of Washington and Kaiser Washington which allows opportunities to network with other reproductive health providers.

    • We meet 4 times per year with one meeting scheduled during a Reproductive Health Access Project (RHAP) cluster meeting in Seattle, WA.

    • This isn't a requirement to complete the reproductive health elective although it will help if we have many residents interested in reproductive health training to maximize the experience.

Rotation Milestones

  1. Patient care

    • PC-1 & PC-3: Learn to provide patient-centered and quality care through partnership with patients to counsel, inform, educate and support people in family planning and reproductive health

    • PC-5: Gain competence in performing appropriate procedures to meet the reproductive needs of patients, i.e. counseling on family planning, prescribing of birth control, IUD/Nexplanon insertions, medication and surgical abortions and other procedures

  2. Medical knowledge

    • MK-1 & MK-2: Demonstrate appropriate knowledge about family planning relative to current level of training

  3. Systems-based practice

    • SBP-2: Emphasize patient safety following appropriate clinical guidelines and protocols

    • SBP-4: Continue building skills to work with the healthcare team

  4. Practice-based learning & improvement

    • PBL-2: Engage in self-directed learning and demonstrate abilities to acquire new skills in family planning and reproductive health

  5. Professionalism

    • PROF-2 & PROF-3: Learn professional expectations while demonstrating compassion/respect/empathy towards patients and presents in a respectful & professional manner while attending all duties/responsibilities 

  6. Communication

    • C-1, C-2 & C-3: Develop meaningful, therapeutic relationships with patients while communicating effectively with patients and the healthcare team

***Any resident in the Swedish First Hill Family Medicine Residency Program can request additional training.  Kevin will set up a meeting with interested residents to help maximize training opportunities.

Supplemental readings/resources

Reviewed and Updated 6/12/2018, Kevin Wang

Effective: 6/25/2018 - 6/24/2019