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.
During the first year, Hood River residents are based in Portland and follow a curriculum similar to that of our sister program, Providence Milwaukie Family Medicine Residency. Residents establish their continuity practice at One Community Health in Hood River and maintain those patient relationships throughout residency. Unique first-year experiences for Hood River residents include a week of IMAT, a Spanish intensive week, and a transitional block at the end of the year that provides vacation time, relocation to Hood River and focused orientation to the Hood River hospital, clinic, and community.
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 for an average of 12 half-days a month. 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, and geriatrics.
Residents follow a longitudinal curriculum that provides the clinical experiences required for graduation while allowing significant flexibility to pursue individual interests through elective time. Throughout residency, residents take home call for One Community Health approximately once weekly, triaging after-hours patient calls and providing obstetric, pediatric, and newborn care as needed, including attending deliveries, pediatric admissions, and neonatal resuscitations.
Residents are encouraged to communicate in Spanish with the patient population by the beginning of their second year.
All applications should be made through ERAS only and are accepted through November 1. 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.
Application deadline is November 1. Interviews are by invitation via Thalamus and are conducted from November through December.
Learn more about the application process on this web page.
We offer a limited number of two-week medical student rotations each year to students who are passionate about rural family medicine. If you are interested in rotating with us, please email our Program Coordinator at elisabeth.jex@providence.org with a brief introduction and a few sentences about what draws you to the Providence Hood River Family Medicine Residency Program. Please also include your current Spanish proficiency level. Because of the needs of our patient population, priority consideration is given to students who speak Spanish.
