The Deaconess Medical Center Transitional Year Residency Program is designed to prepare physicians in their first postgraduate year for future categorical residency programs. Regardless of a resident’s future career plans, we believe that every physician should have a broad well-rounded foundation to build upon. Our program offers a wide range of clinical experience to maximize the resident physician’s skill and knowledge base. We offer 4 elective rotations for each transitional year resident, allowing each resident to customize their transitional year in order to meet personal and career needs. If you are looking for a stimulating, broad-based, state-of-the-art clinical experience we would like to hear from you.

Deaconess Medical Center is a 388-bed, non-profit, tertiary referral center. Patients from Eastern Washington, Northern Idaho, Western Montana and Canada come to Spokane to access our physicians and our medical center. Patient volume averages over 14,000 inpatients, 33,000 emergency department visits, and 2,400 deliveries each year. This wide referral base and patient volume provide a great case mix allowing residents to hone their diagnostic and therapeutic skills.

The Deaconess Medical Center Transitional Year Residency Program is fully accredited by the Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education (ACGME). While a certain volume is necessary to achieve our goals of a broad, well-balanced clinical exposure, we believe that resident’s learn best and provide better patient care when they are not overly fatigued. Thus, we are in full compliance with the ACGME’s duty hour requirements. In order to improve patient care and to decrease call requirements we have instituted a night float system. As a result, our residents take a minimal amount of call. Ancillary services at Deaconess are unsurpassed. As a result, residents are not called upon to do scut work (IV’s, blood draws, patient transport) and they are able to concentrate learning and providing outstanding patient care.

Deaconess Medical Center is a Level 2 Trauma center as well as a regional tertiary care center. Deaconess Medical Center offers a comprehensive array of services and the latest in diagnostic and therapeutic technology including Ultra-fast CT, MRI, radiation therapy, gamma knife, radiation therapy, interventional cardiac services including coronary artery bypass surgery and stenting procedures.

Other services offered at Deaconess Medical Center include:

Cancer Center
A comprehensive caner center focused on meeting the needs of cancer patients in a single facility. The Caner Center offers a full range of diagnostic, staging and therapeutic services. These include radiation therapy, pediatric oncology unit, inpatient oncology unit as well as outpatient chemotherapy. Radiologic services to support the cancer center include mammography, CT, MRI, PET scanning, and a gamma knife.

Cardiology Services
In 2002, Deaconess Medical Center was awarded the designation of being one of the “Top 100 Heart Hospitals” in the nation. Spokane and Deaconess Medical Center have long been known for aggressive, cutting edge cardiac treatment. This trend continues today with highly trained cardiologists offering acute coronary interventions for acute myocardial infarctions as well as electrophysiological studies for arrhythmias. The medical center features state of the art cardiac care and intensive care units with central monitoring and decentralized nursing stations. The cardiac catheterization laboratory is also state of the art with digital imaging.

Trauma Service
Deaconess Medical Center is a Regional Level 2 Trauma Center and provides these services 24 hours per day to our local community but also to a wide catchment area. Acute transfers from the field are facilitated by our active air transport service.

Renal Service
Deaconess offers comprehensive renal services including acute inpatient dialysis. Our renal team is also involved in renal transplant services.

Women’s and Children’s Center
This center offers a family-centered maternity program. It includes a mother-baby unit with private labor and delivery rooms, birthing center and neonatal intensive care unit. Our Women’s and Children’s Center has the highest number of deliveries of all of our area hospitals.

Specialty Units / Programs / Clinics
Orthopedic and neurologic services have specialty units for their patients. Deaconess Medical Center also offers an on-site comprehensive Wound Care Center that integrates the latest wound care technology and hyperbaric oxygen therapy for selected patients. There are also a cystic fibrosis clinic and behavioral health programs.

Health and Education Center
A state-of-the-art conference facility is available to the hospital and the community. The Health information center and medical library is housed here and provides the full spectrum of services. The library is well stocked with up to date textbooks, journals as well as Internet access for literature searches. In addition, the Spokane hospitals are linked by an interactive telemedicine network that enables the exchange of medical information both locally and to rural affiliates.

Pastoral Care / Social Services
Deaconess has 24 hour Pastoral Care coverage as well as a clinical pastoral education training program. Along with social services they assist with discharge planning as well as providing spiritual and emotional support for patient, family and staff.

Ancillary Support Services
The hospital provides an active IV therapy team that starts all IV’s as well as places PICC lines and assists with central line placement. An excellent phlebotomy team performs blood draws. Twenty-four hour service is provided by radiology, cardiovascular and laboratory departments.