Sea Mar is committed to graduate medical education.
The mission of the Department of Medical Education is to train and graduate skilled family medicine providers who are committed to the underserved and vulnerable and will serve those communities throughout their careers.
It is our hope that Sea Mar graduates will continue to work in Community Health Centers such as Sea Mar. All of our GME programs emphasize interdisciplinary medicine and patient-centered, culturally competent care, with exposure to medically and socially complex patients.
Sea Mar Seattle's Family Medicine Residency site began in 1987 in collaboration with the Providence Family Medicine (now Swedish Cherry Hill) Residency.
The Seattle clinic is a satellite site of the main program, the Swedish Family Medicine Residency at Cherry Hill.
The goal in 1987 was to demonstrate that a collaborative effort between a Community Health Center and an established residency program could provide an outstanding training experience for Family Medicine residents.
Sea Mar and Swedish have been very successful at recruiting residents who desire to work with a multicultural, Latino rich community and continue to serve underserved populations in CHC settings as they continue their careers.
Sea Mar Community Health Centers’ Nurse Practitioner Residency began at the Sea Mar Seattle Medical Clinic in October of 2015 under the directorship of Patricia Cleveland, ARNP as a family nurse practitioner (FNP) residency program. The program expanded in 2019 and 2020 to include 10 total FNP residents split between the Seattle, Lynnwood, and Tacoma-Cushman Medical clinic sites. The Nurse Practitioner Residency program welcome its first 2 Psychiatric Nurse Practitioners in October 2024 at the White Center Behavioral Health clinic site. In October 2025, the program began accepting physician assistant/associates into the program and officially changed its title to the Sea Mar Advanced Practice Provider (APP) Residency Program. Starting in October 2026, the program will expand to add a 5th site in Vancouver, WA for two FNP/PA residents
The Sea Mar Family Medicine Obstetrics Fellowship is a partnership between Sea Mar Community Health Centers and Providence Regional Medical Center Everett Obstetrics and Gynecology department. 53 weeks in length, this experience is focused on high-risk and surgical obstetrics while maintaining family medicine continuity clinic skills with two fellows per year.