Each of these hospitals serves very different patient populations with very different spectra of clinical problems. Full-time faculty based at each hospital will allow you to take graded levels of responsibility for patient care. All four hospitals offer ambulatory care clinics, dermatologic surgery, and inpatient consultation services. The first clinical year is an intensive experience consisting of six two-month rotations at the University of Washington Medical Center, the Veterans Affairs Medical Center, Harborview Medical Center, and Children's Hospital and Medical Center. The emphasis of these rotations is on supervised clinical experience.
Residents have at least one two-month rotation at each hospital.
Except at the University of Washington Medical Center, each rotation consists of ambulatory care clinics, inpatient consultations, and dermatologic surgery. At the University of Washington, first year residents usually do not participate in hospital consultations until the second half of the year. Third year residents may additionally elect to take rotations in the Hansen's Disease Clinic, the Sexually Transmitted Disease Clinic, or the AIDS Clinic. Residents wishing to have an in-depth research experience may, at the halfway point of their first year, petition to expand their third year into two years to accommodate the Dermatology Research Training Program. The focus of these two years would be scholarly work in basic research, clinical research, or education research.