EDUCATION
CONFERENCES
At the University of Arizona, our top priority is your education. Our program includes:
- Morning Report – three times weekly, case based learning sessions
- The University Physicians Hospital – South Campus 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 The University of Arizona Medical Center - University Campus 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 – South Campus, The University of Arizona Medical Center - University Campus, and the Southern Arizona Veterans Health Care System (SAVHCS). All are within five miles of UAMC South. The rural rotations take place at Green Valley, Marana, and Wickenburg. 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 |
5 months |
| Night Float |
1 month |
| ICU |
1 month |
| Emergency Medicine |
1 months |
| Elective |
2.5 months |
| Anesthesiology |
0.5 month |
| Vacation |
1 month |
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| PGY2 |
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| General Medicine Wards |
3 months |
| ICU (UAMC-UC) |
1 month |
| Night Float |
1 month |
| UPH Cardiology |
1 month |
| Rural Medicine |
1 month |
| Geriatrics |
1 month |
| Hematology/Oncology |
1 month |
| Elective |
2 months |
| Vacation |
1 month |
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| PGY3 |
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| General Medicine Wards |
3 months |
| ICU (UAMC-SC) |
1.5 months |
| Night Float |
0.5 months |
| Rural Medicine |
2 months |
| Elective |
4 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, with ample exposure to orthopedic, ophthalmologic, dermatologic, and HIV related issues.
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