Obstetrics Fellowship
Obstetrics Fellowship Overview
Who We Are
Our fellowship in obstetrics and family medicine offers a unique opportunity to learn management of high risk and operative obstetrics, while teaching and mentoring residents, medical students and obstetrical staff.
The fellowship is intended for Family Physicians who desire training in surgical obstetrics, care of high risk and complicated pregnancies, and management of the medical complications of pregnancy. Obstetric Fellows are well prepared to serve in a rural, isolated or underserved location, or to teach obstetrics in a Family Medicine residency program.
This program consists of 13 four-week rotations, and includes precepting Family Medicine residents and elective time.
Skills and Experience
The following procedures and skills are examples of the experience recent one-year fellows have received:
- Cesarean Sections: 200-250
- Vaginal Deliveries: 75-150
- Assisted Vaginal Deliveries: 10-20
- D&C: 10-20
Additional Experiences:
- Management of high risk pregnancy, both outpatient and inpatient
- Management of medical complications of pregnancy
- Genetics screening and counseling
- Diabetes management
- Neonatal resuscitation and stabilization
- Routine prenatal care through Sacred Heart Maternity Clinic
CME Conferences:
- ALSO Instructor course and certification
- NRP recertification
- Formal ultrasound course including intensive hands on instruction
- State and regional conferences for obstetrics and neo/perinatology
Scholarly and Teaching Activity:
- Monthly Perinatology Journal Club-fellow led
- Annual clinical research project
- Teaching experience in precepting family medicine residents in the outpatient clinic, the inpatient medicine service, the inpatient OB service, and in teaching the ALSO course.
Electives
Each fellow will have two, four-week elective rotations during the fellowship year. Fellows are encouraged to use this time to gain additional skills that will be applicable to their future practice. Popular choices have included time on the inpatient medicine service, outpatient gynecology specialties and surgery, and NICU experience.
Call Schedule
Overnight call averages every fourth night. Assignments are made in conjunction with resident and faculty schedules. The fellow’s responsibilities are centered on high-risk patients and surgical experiences. While on call, the fellows will also serve as the attending physician for FMRS OB patients and supervise family medicine residents for continuity deliveries.
Family Practice Skills
In order to maintain and improve general family practice and teaching skills, fellows will be scheduled to precept family medicine residents in the general outpatient clinic throughout the year. Fellows are encouraged to utilize their elective time in ways that help to enhance skills that they will need in their future practice.
Compensation
The OB Fellowship provides an annual salary of $78,635, along with additional call pay. Fellows receive $137 per night for call Monday through Thursday, $206 per night on Fridays, and $343 per day for call on Saturdays, Sundays, and holidays.
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Stephenie Matosich, D.O.
Program Director
2025-2026 Fellows
Anne Keeling, DO
Residency Program: Family Medicine Residency – Spokane – Colville Rural Training Track
Medical School: Pacific Northwest University of Health Sciences
Adam Newborn, DO
Residency Program: In His Image Family Medicine Residency, Tulsa Oklahoma
Medical School: Chicago College of Osteopathic Medicine
Miranda Nunez, MD
Residency Program: Rural NC at Sampson Regional
Medical School: San Juan Bautista School of Medicine
How To Apply
We’re excited you’re considering the Spokane OB Fellowship! Below is everything you need to know about applying to our program.
Application Timeline
- Applications Open: July - September 30th
- Interviews: August through Mid-October
Application Requirements
- Letter of interest
- Current CV
- Description of current OB training and experience, including months of OB rotations, number of deliveries and surgical experience
- Three letters of reference, including a person who can attest to your OB skills.
Please send materials to obfellowshipspokane@providence.org.
Starting in AY 2025-2026, we are joining with the other programs in the newly formed Family Medicine Obstetrics Fellowship Directors’ Association (FMOB-FDA) in a standard recruitment timeline. Programs in the FMOB-FDA have agreed that starting this year, our programs will open applications on July 1, and while we may make and accept offers at any time, we will not require that applicants make a decision on an offer prior to October 15th. For example, if we offer an applicant a position on October 1 but they have more interviews after that date, we will wait until October 15 before offering that spot to a different applicant.
Our goal is that candidates will be able to choose their preferred program and thus we will all matriculate fellows who truly wish to train at our programs.