Rotations
- Residents complete 12 one-month rotations, comprising the following:
- Orientation and training (July)
- Acute care (three 1 month experiences)
- Ambulatory care clinic (1 month + longitudinal clinic)
- Pharmacy administration (1 month)
- Project (December)
- Electives (five 1 month experiences)
- With UW Medicine, you can take rotations at many different hospitals and clinics across the Seattle area. Please refer to our Locations page to learn more about the individual sites.
Potential rotation selection options (availability may vary year to year):
Acute Care
- Acute pain management
- Administration
- Antimicrobial stewardship
- Cardiology
- Chronic pain management
- Emergency department
- Family medicine
- General medicine
- General surgery
- Hematology/oncology
- Investigational drug services
- Infectious diseases
- Informatics
- Inpatient abdominal solid organ transplant
- Inpatient hematopoietic stem cell transplant
- Medication safety
- Neurology/rehabilitation
- Psychiatry
Critical Care
- Burn ICU/pediatric ICU
- Cardiac surgery ICU
- Cardiology ICU
- Medical ICU
- Neurocritical care ICU
- Oncology ICU
- Surgical ICU
- Trauma ICU
- UWMC – Northwest ICU
Ambulatory Care Clinics
- Abdominal transplant clinic
- Adult medicine clinic (primary care)
- Anticoagulation clinics
- Cardiology clinics
- Dermatology and rheumatology specialty pharmacy clinics
- Diabetes clinic – South Lake Union Diabetes Institute
- Family medicine clinic (primary care)
- General oncology – Fred Hutch
- General oncology – UWMC (gynecologic oncology)
- GI/hepatology specialty pharmacy clinics
- Hematopoietic stem cell transplant clinic – Fred Hutch
- International medicine clinic (primary care)
- Madison clinic (HIV/AIDS)
- Pain clinic – Fred Hutch (chronic cancer pain)
- Pain clinic – UWMC – Montlake (chronic non-cancer pain)
- Senior care/geriatrics clinic
- Virology clinic
Staffing
- Residents have an integrated service commitment of 32 hours per 4-week schedule period. These include a combination of distribution shifts in central pharmacy and evening/weekend clinical shifts.
- Each resident will be assigned a location for that service at UWMC-ML, UWMC-NW, or HMC.