Alaska Family Medicine Residency, Providence Hospital

2 Full Time Funded Positions

General Information

The Alaska Family Medicine Residency at the Providence Hospital in Anchorage was developed to train family physicians to practice in any part of the state of Alaska, including remote and isolated Alaskan communities. Professionals in this program place a major emphasis on cultural diversity and work closely with colleagues throughout the Alaska Native health care community. It is the belief of the residency that preparing professionals for this type of practice also prepares them for practice in virtually any other setting, such as urban or suburban outpatient practice, urban underserved practice, or third world/international medicine.

The Alaska Family Medicine Residency is developing a collaborative care model of service delivery, which includes an integration of Master’s level and PhD graduate students in behavioral sciences. This integrated care program will soon create an environment in which physicians and behavioral health professionals will work together in addressing patients’ health care needs. Also being developed is a curriculum for coaching patients to make behavioral life style changes in the primary care setting, which will compliment the medical family home model. This process will lead to novel research on the effectiveness of these approaches in addressing chronic disease and the mental health issues that accompany them.

The Internship Experience

Behavioral health experiences available to psychology interns at Providence Hospital are broad, comprehensive, and involve a multidisciplinary approach. Services are provided to adults as well as children and adolescents. Interns will provide such services as individual/family/group outpatient therapy, acute inpatient, crisis intervention, long term residential care, substance abuse treatment, and psychological/neuropsychological assessment. Interns may also receive experience with Biofeedback and EMDR technology.

Staff

Sarah Dewane, PhD- Clinical Psychologist, Psychology internship site supervisor
David Baines, MD- Faculty
Tonya Caylor, MD- Faculty
Barb Doty, MD- Faculty
Jennet Hermiston, MD- Faculty
Harold Johnston, MD- Faculty
Janel Kam-Magruder, MD- Faculty
Leslie Linden, MD- Faculty
Anne Musser, MD- Faculty
John Schwartz, MD- Faculty
Kirk Scofield, MD- Faculty
Julie Sicilia, MD- Faculty
Kristen Solana-Walkingshaw, MD- Fourth Year Chief Resident
Julie Wilson, MD- Faculty

Contact Information

Site Training Director:
Ray Pastorino, PhD, JD-
Raymond.Pastorino@providence.org
Website: http://www.akfmr.org/

Mailing address:
Ray Pastorino, PhD, JD
Alaska Family Medicine Residency
1201 E. 36th Avenue
Anchorage, Ak 99508