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Roseburg Family Medicine Residency
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Procedures

Hands-on procedural training in all three years, from skin biopsies to deliveries, in a resident-led procedure clinic and across the hospital.

The South Umpqua River through Roseburg under an orange and pink December sunrise, yellow trees along both banks and hills beyond
Sunrise over the South Umpqua River and Roseburg in December

Procedural training runs through all three years, with more independence as experience grows. The goal is to graduate physicians who are comfortable with a broad range of procedures in the office, the hospital and the emergency department.

Procedures residents learn

  • Skin biopsies and excisions

  • Cryotherapy

  • Laceration repair and wound care

  • Incision and drainage of abscesses

  • Musculoskeletal injections: shoulder, knee, hip, trigger point, trigger finger, carpal tunnel and others

  • Splinting and basic orthopedic procedures

  • Circumcision

  • Vasectomy

  • Toenail avulsion

  • IUD insertion and removal

  • Nexplanon insertion and removal

  • Endometrial biopsy

  • Pap smears

  • Vaginal delivery and obstetric procedures

  • Point-of-care ultrasound

  • Airway management and intubation

  • Central line placement

Where residents do them

  • The resident-led procedure clinic

  • The GYN procedure clinic

  • Outpatient orthopedics

  • Dermatology

  • Inpatient obstetrics and gynecology

  • The emergency department

  • Inpatient adult medicine

  • Workshops during didactics

Yellow maples over a wet road leading onto a green steel bridge near Roseburg in November
Autumn maples at a bridge near Roseburg, November