Our family practice program has a strong commitment to obstetrics within family medicine. The first-year surgery rotation takes place at Merle West Medical Center in Klamath Falls. The emphasis is on learning minor outpatient surgical procedures, first assisting at major surgery and perioperative care. Residents are supervised by three experienced general surgeons from the community. The pediatric rotation provides experience and instruction in the assessment and management of children with a wide variety of problems including acute infections, chronic debilitating diseases, disorders of growth and development, nutritional disorders, mental retardation, and congenital malformations.
Instruction is provided by community pediatricians in both inpatient and outpatient care.
Considerable experience in well-child care is gained. This pediatric rotation takes place at Oregon Health Sciences University in Portland, Oregon. The emphasis is on the assessment and management of primary care pediatric patients' problems that will be encountered by a family physician in a hospital setting. The Merle West Medical Center in Klamath Falls has one of the busiest emergency rooms in Oregon, with over 23,000 outpatient visits a year. It is staffed by experienced emergency room physicians, several of whom are also boarded in family practice.