Primary Care Track
Mission Statement
Our primary care track is committed to cultivating humanistic, patient-centered and resilient primary care physicians who are exceptional clinicians and transformative leaders poised to innovate and advocate for all people within their communities.
Components
The foundation of our Primary Care Track is the robust categorical ambulatory curriculum that seeks to develop well-rounded and skilled general internists. Primary Care Track applications are elicited in the fall of PG-1 year, and all interested residents are welcome to apply.
With the components of the Primary Care Track and elective time, residents in their R2 and R3 years can choose to spend over 50% of their time in the ambulatory setting.
This is a three-week outpatient rotation designed to highlight primary care in a setting off the hill. We have partnerships with a variety of sites:
- Alaska Native Medical Center - AK
- Chemawa Indian Health Center - Salem, OR
- Indian Health Service - Tuba City, AZ
- Old Town Clinic Community Health Center - Portland, OR
- Samaritan Lincoln City Medical Center - Lincoln City, OR
- VA Community Based Outpatient Clinics - Portland, OR
- Virginia Garcia Community Health Center - Hillsboro, OR
- Winding Waters Clinic - Bend, OR
The R3 primary care rotations are two separate three-week blocks in the R3 year. These blocks include both core clinical experiences and experiences that are tailored to each unique resident's interests and needs.
Examples of experiences include dermatology, sports medicine, women's health, procedure clinics, time in the human performance lab, pre-op medicine, teaching, co-precepting in your continuity clinic, and scholarship. The Primary Care Track directors meet individually with each resident in advance of this rotation to ensure the block is optimized for each resident's education and needs.
This annual workshop takes place every spring and is tailored to cover topics that current and former primary care track residents requested. These sessions include skills sessions (nexplanon placement, joint injections, improv exercises on dealing with uncertainty and building relationships, etc.), medical knowledge (a deeper dive on caring for certain vulnerable populations i.e., undocumented patients, victims of trauma, transgender care), additional advocacy training, networking, and mentorship.
