Legacy Health-Salmon Creek Medical Center Program

Program Identity & Fit

Legacy Salmon Creek is a new, unopposed community-based internal medicine program explicitly built around producing outpatient-oriented primary care internists rather than subspecialists, pairing inpatient training at a top-ranked community hospital with ambulatory training at Vancouver Clinic's varied primary-care delivery models (medical home, high-throughput access clinic, transitional care, neighborhood clinics). The curriculum is organized around high-value, cost-conscious, evidence-based population health and Lean-based quality improvement rather than traditional subspecialty exposure, with a 2+2 block schedule protecting concentrated outpatient time. Research is present through Legacy Research Institute but is not central to this program's identity; instead the program emphasizes leadership development, teaching skills ("Teaching to Teach"), quality improvement methodology, and career flexibility (urgent care, SNF/transitional care, medical leadership, education, advocacy) as explicit outcomes. The program values candidates drawn to innovative primary care delivery redesign, chronic disease management in a medically complex Medicare-aged population, and system-level thinking over procedural or subspecialty ambition.