INPATIENT MEDICINE
Rock Solid Medicine Skills -Helping you navigate acute patient care
At Providence Oregon, you will get superb learning opportunities on our Family Medicine Inpatient Service (FMIS). Our inpatient Resident team is made up of an intern, a senior resident, often a sub-intern and a Family Medicine attending during the day. Our shifts are 12 hours and at night your attending will be one of our inpatient Hospitalists. You help cover the hospital at night and respond to all code blues. While some residencies don’t have interns do nights, our residents and grads say that one of the reasons they chose to come to Providence Oregon FMR was the strong medicine training and that nights are a time for great learning and for fostering autonomy (with attending back up of course).
Having this foundation serves you well whether doing inpatient care, outpatient medicine or a home visit. Learn to identify common and some less common acute illnesses and be comfortable in managing patients with these conditions.
Family Medicine Inpatient Service (FMIS) night shifts will be for Wednesday-Saturday nights and not Sunday-Tuesday nights. The day shift remains the same. This shift rebalances outpatient time with inpatient and maintains core skills and confidence that comes from your experience managing patients. Our 77 bed community hospital has no other physician residents training here and you help manage patients in our six bed open ICU.
Our ICU specialists are Pulmonary Critical Care physicians and their help and consulting make this less stressful. We also have a 19 bed Senior Psychiatry Unit and occasionally are asked to do a medical consult on one of their patients.We cap at nine patients for unassigned, don’t cap for our own patients and average 8-10 patients. We get admissions from our Emergency room physicians and an occasional direct admit from our two clinics. It is a busy, robust service.