CONFERENCES
At the University of Arizona, our top priority is your education. Our program includes:
- Morning Report – three times weekly, case based learning sessions
- UPH Medicine Conference – once weekly, used for board review and review of relevant EBM
- Core Curriculum – one half-day academic session each week that incorporates didactics, Morbidity & Mortality, and Journal Club
- Medicine Grand Rounds weekly at UMC or viewed streaming on-line
- Yale Curriculum – short sessions each week
- Board Review course
RESEARCH
The program supports and fosters research interests at an early stage by identifying University of Arizona College of Medicine faculty mentors for housestaff. Projects may range from laboratory to clinical research. All residents will have the opportunity to participate in the Clinical Vignette Competition at the State of Arizona American College of Physicians Meeting.
ROTATIONS
The following is a typical rotation schedule. Rotations take place at University Physicians Hospital (UPH), University Medical Center (UMC), and the Southern Arizona Veterans Health Care System (SAVHCS). All are within a 5 mile distance from UPH. The rural rotation takes place at Indian Health Services (IHS) in Sells, AZ and a daily shuttle is available to transport you back and forth to Tucson. Opportunities are also available for short away rotations to the Hopi and Navajo Nations in northern Arizona.
| PGY1 |
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| General Medicine Wards |
7 months |
| ICU |
1 month |
| Anesthesia |
.5 months |
| Elective |
1.5 months |
| Emergency Medicine |
1 month |
| Vacation |
1 month |
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| PGY2 |
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| General Medicine Wards |
3 months |
| CCU |
1 month |
| Geriatrics |
1 month |
| Ambulatory Care |
1 month |
| Electives |
3 months |
| Rural Health |
1 month |
| ICU |
1 month |
| Vacation |
1 month |
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| PGY3 |
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| General Medicine Wards |
3 months |
| ICU |
1 month |
| Electives |
4 months |
| Rural Health |
2 months |
| Vacation |
1 month |
AMBULATORY EXPERIENCE
The ambulatory care experience is central to the training of the general internist and is critical for a physician practicing in more remote or underserved areas. This experience begins in internship with a weekly continuity clinic that continues through all three years of residency. Under close supervision from a general medicine faculty mentor, residents will manage a panel of clinic patients with a wide variety of chronic illnesses and socioeconomic backgrounds. Additional ambulatory experience will be obtained from rotations through medical subspecialties as well as geriatrics and emergency clinics, with ample exposure to orthopedic, ophthalmologic, dermatologic, and HIV related issues. Rotations through the IHS clinics will allow exposure to the unique needs of the Tohono O’odham and Pascua Yaqui Tribes.
CALL
Call for Interns is generally every fourth night when assigned to General Medicine Wards at UPH. We do not have a night-float rotation.
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