Residency Experience

Clinical
University Physicians Hospital Kino Campus serves a varied population of patients, including underserved, culturally diverse, rural and inner city populations.  Supervision is provided by our excellent Core Faculty, who are all University of Arizona physicians, and include specialists in toxicology, Sports Medicine, critical care, education and EMS.

During the three year residency, residents assume increasing responsibility for patient care and emergency department flow.  Each clinical year includes 6 and one half months of emergency department experience, with an additional month of orientation in the first year. 

PGY1: Goals of education include familiarizing the resident with basic patient care and procedural competency and develop initial clinical decision making skills.  Rotations include emergency department at both UPHK and University Campus, EM Peds, Trauma, OB-GYN, Cardiology, Sports Medicine, ICU and Anesthesiology.

PGY2: Goals of education include improving patient care efficiency, graduated responsibility for emergency department flow and procedural excellence.  Residents will develop skills to evaluate and manage the critically ill patient.  Rotations include emergency department, EM Peds, EMS, NICU, PICU, SICU, Toxicology and a Rural EM Selective month.

PGY3: Goals of education include developing master clinician skills, fostering teaching of students and junior residents, increasing efficiency in ED flow with increasing administrative responsibilities.  Rotations include emergency department, Trauma Captain, EM Peds, ICU, General Selective and an International Selective month. 

Didactics
A comprehensive didactic curriculum specifically developed for this program combines core content with culturally specific topics, which include medical Spanish language.  Also, residents will be actively involoved in case conferences, Continuous Process Improvement and Continuous Quality Improvement.  Additional elective opportunities are available including Toxicology, Rural Emergency Medicine, International Medicine, Ultrasound and EMS.

Research
The nationally recognized program provides strong support for resident led research through a formal Scholar Quest Curriculum, developed at the University of Arizona.  This novel 3 year curriculum teaches evidence based medicine; development and conduction of a research project and culminates with dissemination of the scholarly activity at a national conference.