Obstetrics Fellowship

Due to unforeseen circumstances, the Community Health Care Family Medicine residency obstetrics fellowship is suspended for the 2025- 2026 academic year. We are no longer receiving applications. Please accept our apologies for any inconvenience this may cause you. We wish you success in securing an obstetrics fellowship that fulfills your vision and future.

Mission

To train motivated family medicine physicians to provide the highest quality and compassionate obstetric care, including operative delivery, to underserved and high-risk patients, regardless of lifestyle, race, color, or creed of patients.

Overview

This is a 54-week fellowship located in the heart of Tacoma, WA, which aims to train its fellows to care for normal and complicated obstetric patients, as well as manage their antepartum, labor, delivery, and post-partum care. Emphasis is placed on operative deliveries, but also in maintaining the skills and knowledge of a well rounded full spectrum Family Medicine physician.

The fellow will spend the majority of their time on Labor and Delivery at St Joseph Medical Center, which is the largest L&D in the south sound. Among its many services, it features 24/7 Laborist coverage, and level III NICU. Fellows will likely have 150+ C Sections as primary, with learning opportunities in multiple OB and GYN procedures. While on the labor deck, Fellows have the opportunity to work with patients of any delivering provider, which includes Midwives, Family Medicine, OBGYN, and MFM. Part of curriculum includes formal OB ultrasound training and staffing a half day outpatient ultrasound clinic. The fellow will not have their own continuity clinic but will maintain their medicine skills by precepting the family medicine residents in their outpatient clinic, as well as taking 2-4 rounding weeks as the attending on the inpatient family medicine service.

There is ample elective time built into the curriculum, which allows for a very customizable experience based on individual interests. This is by no means a comprehensive list, but examples of electives could include:

• Addiction Medicine (inpatient or outpatient)
• Vasectomy training
• NICU
• GYN
• MFM
• Midwifery Care/Home Births
• Spanish language training