St Peter Hospital Chehalis Program

Program Identity & Fit

This is a small, rural-track family medicine program (3-3-3, 1:2, three residents per class) based at Chehalis Family Medicine in Lewis County, WA, explicitly built around full-scope, underserved-population care with a mission framed around social justice and community health. It operates as a hybrid model: continuity clinic and community medicine (including addiction medicine, a free clinic, home visits, gender-affirming care through a Transgender Specialty Clinic) in the rural Chehalis/Centralia setting, while first-year inpatient training occurs alongside the larger St. Peter Family Medicine Residency in Olympia, giving residents both rural autonomy and a bigger academic support network. Scholarly activity is structured but modest, meeting ABFM requirements rather than driving an academic identity, and the program instead emphasizes procedural breadth, an OB track, global health electives (Kenya, Guatemala, Haiti), and community immersion. The program explicitly states it values applicants with demonstrated commitment to underserved care, strong work ethic, self-directed initiative given resident autonomy, team orientation, and openness to feedback, fitting graduates who intend to practice full-spectrum rural or safety-net family medicine.