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May 10, 2021
Pullman Regional Hospital
SPOKANE, Wash. –Washington State University Elson S. Floyd College of Medicine has earned accreditation to start its first family medicine residency program in Pullman.
The WSU Family Medicine Residency Program-Pullman, based at Pullman Regional Hospital, is a three-year residency training program focused in a critical-access hospital in which physician residents will have opportunities to experience the full range of family medicine practice. The program, which will welcome its first residents in summer 2022, will host three residents per year for a total of nine residents when fully implemented.
Critical access hospitals have 25 or fewer acute care beds and serve rural communities with essential health care services. As a critical access hospital, Pullman Regional Hospital provides 24-hour emergency care, inpatient and outpatient surgery, imaging and labs, full-service obstetrical care, physical and occupational therapy, cardiac rehabili
The M.J. Murdock Charitable Trust recently awarded Pullman Regional Hospital $450,000 for the clinical and education space for the proposed WSU Family Medicine Residency Program.
Last year, PRH submitted a letter of inquiry to the foundation and submitted a proposal for a grant in the fall, said Rueben Mayes, PRH Foundation chief development and external relations officer.
The hospital was notified in October that the proposal had been accepted. Representatives from the foundation visited the site for the residency program in December, he said
Mayes said the application itself included what PRH intended to do with the money, the cost of the residency program and what impact the grant would have on the project.
WSU’s Elson S. Floyd College of Medicine will graduate its first class of medical students at the end of the spring 2021 semester.
In 2017, the college’s dean welcomed the first class of students, said Christina VerHeul, director of communications, marketing and strategic operations at WSU’s College of Medicine. The dean shared a quote during the event: “The beauty of the first time is that it leads to 1,000 firsts.”
VerHeul said this inspired a campaign to capture all the thousands of firsts that will happen for the students and the school. The college has been collecting students’ and faculties’ first memories since then.