Community Health of Central Washington, the program’s sponsor is a funded Teaching Health Center. As such residents learn to provide community based comprehensive and continuous ambulatory care to medically underserved patients representative of the cultural, socio-economic and demographic diversity of Central Washington. The program provides full spectrum Family Medicine training including OB, in
tegrated behavioral health, osteopathic manipulation medicine, procedural training and inpatient pediatric and adult medicine. The program is committed to academic excellence as demonstrated by its affiliation with the nation’s #1 ranked University of Washington Department of Family Medicine and one of the newest osteopathic medical schools, Pacific Northwest University of Health Sciences. Community physicians provide and teach state-of-the-art medicine in both the outpatient and inpatient settings. In keeping with the Teaching Health Center’s mission of improving access to health care, the program recruits a diverse group of self-directed learners interested in working with rural and underserved populations. The program is committed to the development of excellent, board certified family physicians with demonstrated clinical, technical, and interpersonal competencies.
