Program highlights
KP Washington cares for 800,000 patients and has one residency – ours. Residents have unparalleled access to resources in primary care, specialty care, inpatient medicine, emergent care, health systems training, and research.
Two training sites:
- Capitol Hill Campus (Match #1811120C0): 4 residents in each class (total of 12) in Seattle with multi-specialty services on site
- Burien Medical Center (Match #1811120C1): 2 residents in each class (total of 6) south of Seattle in a smaller group practice training setting
Welcome to Seattle
Education is primary. Our residency program prioritizes educational opportunities over heavy patient loads. You also have the opportunity to select a track in an area of concentration as you progress through our program, allowing you the opportunity to focus on your primary medical interests.
Diversity of age, gender, ethnicity, and socioeconomic status of our patient population. We have excellent training at two residency clinic training sites in caring for babies, children, teenagers, pregnant folks, and adults of all ages, including nursing home and hospice patients. Kaiser Permanente patients include those insured by Medicare and Medicaid. Communities we care for include Somali, Eritrean, Chinese, Vietnamese, Mexican, and others. Patients who are not fluent in English are routinely provided with a translator for their visit. Kaiser Permanente is also a long-standing leader in LGBTQ care and residents have the opportunity to learn Gender Affirming and HIV care.
Full spectrum training. Our curriculum is designed to give graduates competency in general hospital care and low risk Obstetrics. Kaiser Permanente Washington supports interested Family Physicians in practicing continuity OB and you will see faculty and attendings modeling integrating OB into their practices.
Community service. Our longitudinal curriculum allows residents to continually provide community service and learn community medicine. R1s will work at Carolyn Downs, an FQHC and the only Black Panther-founded community health clinic still operating today. R2s provide care to youth experiencing homelessness at the Orion Center. R3s work with one of our faculty caring for patients at the Neighborcare FQHC, Rainier Beach clinic. Residents may also choose to use their elective month to rotate with a community clinic or do global health work.
Abortion training. As a RHEDI grant site, all residents participate in a rotation at Planned Parenthood and a residency led clinic to train in counseling, early dating ultrasounds, and medical and surgical abortions. Residents may opt out of the provision of abortion. Additional training is available at Kaiser Permanente and at other sites for those interested in more experience.
Pharma free. Our internal pharmacy and therapeutics committee reviews and screens all new pharmaceuticals. Pharmacy representatives are not allowed to speak directly to staff, and our program does not permit direct interactions with pharmaceutical industry.
Industry leader in health informatics, population care, and evidence based medicine. Kaiser Permanente has an excellent electronic medical record and secure website for patients to access parts of their own record — including test results, prescription refills, patient instructions, and e-mail to providers and team. The organization also has international recognition in chronic disease management and preventive guidelines based on evidence-based medicine with both national and institutional research.
Collegiality. Resident and faculty are colleagues in the clinic, inpatient settings, didactics, advising, program operations, and curriculum. We work hard to address the toxic hierarchy in medicine and develop close collegial working and learning environments.