Journal ClubOn the 1st Wednesday evening of every block Dr.Origer leads journal club. Residents are assigned articles 1-2 weeks ahead of time. The program provides a catered dinner at a faculty member’s house. After dinner there is a group discussion on how to accurately read and interpret journal articles and clinical evidence. At the end of each session the residents decide what topic they would like to address at the next journal club.

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Academic half day
Academic half days occur three Wednesday mornings per year. These activities will be in collaboration with the other residency programs at Samaritan Health Services and will usually involve national speakers.

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Scholarly activity
Each resident is expected to design and complete a scholarly activity during the course of their residency. This can entail quality improvement projects, case studies, original research, CAT (critically appraised topic), community projects and others. Timely goals with the purpose of advancing your project starting intern year are met during didactic sessions when protected time is devoted to scholarly activity workshops. All residents are encouraged to either publish or present a poster locally or nationally. GME funds are provided if you choose to present at a national conference.
 

Community and International Involvement

• Pop Warner physicals: Provide free sports physicals to local youth athletes

• Tar Wars: Speaking at elementary schools about risks associated with tobacco exposure

• Hep C clinic: Opportunity to work with infectious disease specialist managing a panel of patients with Hepatitis C, from diagnosis to treatment.

• OMT at Oregon State University: Clinic offered once weekly to provide OMT (osteopathic manual treatment) to student athletes at OSU.

• International rotations

  • Guatemala

  • Haiti

  • Africa

  • Mexico

• ​Liga International: El Fuerte, Mexico. Fly down to Los Angeles, connect with Liga Pilots who will fly to el Fuerte. Accessible long weekend trip. Leave LA friday and return sunday afternoon. Clinic/OR all day saturday. Amazing experience and pathology. Lots of lumps, bumps, and minor office procedures. Spanish language skills a plus, but not required.