SITE COORDINATOR: LAUREL WOODS, M.D.

GENERAL INFORMATION

Clerkships at Group Health are coordinated by the Family Medicine Residency Program. Founded in 1969, the residency program at Group Health is a charter program involved in founding the American Board of Family Medicine. The residency reflects these origins, being centered in a non-profit health maintenance organization with a strong focus on Family Medicine providers offering a wide spectrum of care. Located in the Capitol Hill campus in Seattle, the program has 15 residents, 11 physician faculty, 2 behavioral science faculty, a pharmacist and nursing and administrative support staff. Clinic facilities include exam rooms, administrative offices, lab, minor surgery, medical library, and pharmacy.

This clerkship site also gives students an opportunity to be exposed to state-of-the-art resources including an evidence-based-medicine database, a nationally respected treatment guidelines developed from comprehensive, physician-led reviews of best-available research and EpicCare, our advanced electronic clinical information system which supports greater accessibility, coordination, and patient confidentiality systemwide. Most of the rotation concentrates on outpatient experience where students will see a racially, culturally and socio-economically diverse group of patients of all ages. Students work with both third-year residents and faculty members. In addition to family medicine clinics, students work in several multidisciplinary clinics: the teen pregnancy and parenting clinic, a well-child clinic and an HIV clinic; one half-day is spent visiting a nursing home. Students will spend one week rounding in the mornings on in-patients with the Family Medicine rounding team at Virginia Mason Medical Center. Family Medicine didactics are held Wednesday afternoons. At the end of the rotation, each student will give a brief presentation.

Faculty: Dr. Laurel Woods is the clerkship faculty coordinator. Supervision of the student clinical experience is by both third-year residents and residency faculty. The other faculty involved in teaching are Greg Allen, Dick Dobyns, John Gayman, Fred Heidrich, Cindy Lee, Michael Madwed, Gloria Sayler and Sara Thompson.

Housing: None is provided.

Transportation and parking: Group Health is easily accessible by several bus lines. Parking is provided at our Capitol Hill campus. Driving to off-site clinics and the Eastside Hospital is highly recommended.

Dress: Business casual is required. White jackets are optional, as are ties for men. Additional information will be forwarded prior to the rotation.