A Message From The Program Director
Hello and greetings from Portland, Oregon.
Most of us chose our residency training program based on location, an emotional attachment and feeling that you would fit in well with the team. So come interview, talk with our residents, and spend time with us. I
f you want great training and love the Pacific NW come join us to “Learn, Play and Stay” in this lovely part of the world.
Quality of life is exceptional in Oregon so when not doing your residency training, we have amazing outdoor opportunities including hiking, skiing, cold water surfing in addition to book reading (Powell’s Books is the worlds largest bookstore) and an amazing smorgasbord of talented inventive chefs creating delicious food from the locally grown fruits, nuts, vegetables and other foods.
I have been the Providence Oregon FM Residency Program Director since 2016 (after 27 years in Seattle at University of Washington). Our group of residents and faculty are exceptional learners and teachers, and a fun group of outstanding colleagues.
Since 2016, 40% of our grads continue working with Providence and about 30% join local Federally Qualified Health Centers. The vast majority do outpatient FM, some become hospitalists and some do FM OB. We have grads who are faculty members, and some who have completed fellowships. If every single Family Medicine resident in Oregon stayed, we would still be about 50% short of needed providers. So come join us!
Based on national recommendations, equity, cost savings for applicants, and less carbon emissions, we plan on doing virtual interviews for the 2025 match. We will have some virtual resident only sessions too, as this was successful in helping candidates get to know the residents and seeing how well they might fit in with our group and in recruiting outstanding diverse candidates from broad backgrounds. We will likely have an in person event or two at our Community Teaching Kitchen where we can mingle and sample amazing foods that are mostly plant based.
We will be in Kansas City at National Conference in Booth # 532 and look forward to meeting you there or in the Fall during interview season.
Please apply and interview with us. Hope to see you soon!
If you have any questions, please send them to Kara.Castro@providence.org (our Supervising Residency Coordinator) and she will make sure the best person to answer your question gets your email. Thanks, Justin. July 17, 2024
Justin Osborn, M.D. FAAFP
Program Director, Providence Oregon Family Medicine Residency Clinical Associate Professor, Department of Family Medicine OHSU Clinical Associate Professor, Department of Family Medicine, University of Washington
Medical School: University of Virginia School of Medicine - Charlottesville, VA
Residency: University of Washington, Family Medicine Residency - Seattle, WA
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