Kaiser Permanente Washington Program

Program Identity & Fit

A residency sponsored by Kaiser Permanente Washington, an integrated care system, which the program states has operated since 1969 as one of the original family medicine residencies in the country. It takes six residents per year for a complement of eighteen, split between two training sites that recruit separately: the Seattle Capitol Hill campus with four residents per class and Burien Medical Center, a smaller group practice setting south of Seattle, with two per class. Rather than traditional block rotations, it uses a longitudinal integrated curriculum in which residents manage a continuity panel of about 400 patients while moving among obstetrics, internal medicine, pediatrics, urgent care and geriatrics. Training also includes community clinic sites and a youth center serving families experiencing homelessness. The program reports that its integrated setting gives residents exposure to specialty care and virtual medicine within the same system.