Providence Health & Services, One Community Health
810 12th Street
Hood River, OR 97031
541-387-1954
Residency Website
We are an innovative Family Medicine Rural Training Program located in the beautiful Columbia River Gorge and Hood River Valley, Oregon. Our faculty and staff are a multidisciplinary team of Family Physicians, Specialists, Nurses, Hospital and Clinic staff, administrative professionals and educators who believe in training our residents to care for the needs of rural underserved communities in Oregon.
We practice and teach broad spectrum family medicine in an unopposed setting centered within a 25 bed Critical Access Hospital and a Community and Migrant Health Center serving a large Spanish speaking population.
We seek highly motivated, hardworking, flexible and accountable individuals to learn alongside with us in a welcoming, supportive, challenging yet nurturing and changing medical environment. We aim to eliminate “learned helplessness” in medical education, all while striving for a sense of purpose, teamwork and work-life balance in the pursuit of remaining passionate for family medicine and life-long learning.
Original ACGME accreditation granted in 2013 with first graduating class in June 2016. We are a 1-2 Rural Training Program, accepting 2 new residents each year.
Rural communities depend on clinicians with a broad scope of skills to care for them and their families. Modern rural family physicians still require a breadth of training, experiences and mentorship that may not be available or easily supported in urban communities. We are a rural residency program that aims to incorporate the rigors of academic based training with real world experiences in a small community away from urban academic centers. Our hope is that program graduates end up practicing in small, rural communities and have the skills to care for a diverse patient population, maintain work-life balance and enjoy life-long learning.
First year residents live in Portland and follow the same curriculum and rotation schedule as the residents at our sister program, Providence Milwaukie Family Medicine Residency, with the exception of a 3 week migrant health rotation in Hood River during the last block of the year. They also begin their continuity practice at One Community Health in Hood River, and maintain their continuity patients over 3 years.
In the second and third years, residents live in Hood River, seeing patients at One Community Health, Providence Hood River Memorial Hospital, and community physicians’ offices.
Residents care for their patients at One Community Health three to four half-days a week. They admit to the inpatient service, do emergency room shifts, and attend deliveries at Providence Hood River Memorial Hospital. Additionally, they rotate with community physicians to gain experience in specialties such as surgery, orthopedics, ob-gyn, pediatrics, geriatrics, and rheumatology.
The curriculum and rotations are organized longitudinally, with 3 month blocks of focus called “Quartos.” Longitudinal elements provide the required number of hours in cardiology, surgery and surgical specialties, emergency medicine, behavioral health and psychiatry, sports and physical medicine, obstetrics and pediatrics. Quartos include blocks in maternal child health, surgery, orthopedics / rheumatology, procedures, rural health and elective blocks.
Residents take call overnight for One Community Health about once-a-week, and also while on overnight shifts in the hospital. Call mostly involves answering after-hours phone calls, but can also include managing labor patients and going in to the hospital for deliveries, pediatric admissions or neonatal resuscitations.
Hospital work includes daily rounding with the inpatient family medicine service. Residents manage adult, pediatric, maternity and neonatal patients, in addition to shifts in the Emergency Room.
Residents are expected to communicate in Spanish with the patient population by the beginning of their second year.
All applications should be made through ERAS only. We welcome qualified graduates from both allopathic and osteopathic programs. Providence Oregon Family Medicine Residency participates in the National Resident Matching Program.
To apply, please include:
The Providence Hood River Family Medicine Rural Program has a separate match number for the Family Medicine NRMP from the Providence Oregon FM Residency – ACGME Program # 1204000729.
Interviews are by invitation and are conducted from October through December.
Learn more about the application process on this web page.
We offer medical student rotations on a very limited basis to those with a particular interest and commitment to rural medicine. To be considered, students should contact the program coordinator via email (elisabeth.jex@providence.org) and include a brief paragraph introducing themselves, explaining why they are interested in our program specifically. Please also include current Spanish speaking proficiency level as we do give first consideration to candidates who speak Spanish due to our patient population.
