Rotation | PGY 1 | Rotation | PGY 2 | Rotation | PGY 3 |
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Emergency | 4 weeks, Orientation 20 weeks, BUMCT/S 4 weeks, SAVAHCS |
Emergency | 32 weeks, BUMCT/S | Emergency | 36 weeks, BUMCT/S 4 weeks, TMC |
Anesthesia | 2 weeks, BUMCT | Cardiology | 2 weeks, SAVAHCS | PICU | 4 weeks, BUMCT |
MICU | 4 weeks, SAVAHCS | MICU | 4 weeks, BUMCT | Selective | 4 weeks |
OB | 4 weeks, BUMCT | Selective | 4 weeks | Vacation | 4 weeks (2 wk blocks) |
Ortho | 4 weeks, BUMCT | SICU | 4 weeks, BUMCT | ||
Selective | 2 weeks | Toxicology | 2 weeks | UA Red | |
Trauma | 4 weeks, BUMCT | Vacation | 4 weeks (2 wk blocks) | UA Blue | |
Ultrasound | 2 weeks | ||||
Vacation | 4 weeks (2 wk blocks) | ||||
EMS is a longitudinal curriculum integrated into the ED blocks. Residents are expected to do ground based ambulance ride-alongs. Air ambulance opportunities are available and optional but not required. |
Banner University Medical Center Tucson
Banner University Medical Center Tucson Campus (BUMCT) it a primary provider of indigent care through the Arizona Health Care Cost Containment System, a regional Level One trauma center, and a tertiary care referral hospital that creates an extremely interesting milieu of patient pathology. The BUMCT Emergency Department is our primary teaching setting in which more than 80,000 patients of a diverse socioeconomic mix are cared for annually.The acuity is high and the turnover rapid. Approximately 70 percent of a resident's ED time will be at BUMCT in a longitudinal fashion.
Banner University Medical Center South
Banner Univeristy Medical Center South Campus has become an important contributor to our teaching program. Our integrated faculty supervise our residents in this unique community setting that serve about 45,000 patients annually. Approximately 30 percent of a resdient's ED time will be at BUMCS ED in a longitudinal fasion.
Southern Arizona Veterans Affairs Health Care System
The Southern Arizona Veterans Affairs Health Care System (SAVAHCS) in Tucson has an outstanding national reputation for both research and clinical practice. This sprawling Spanish Colonial complex serves as the site for our PGY I medical intensive care rotation and an additional emergency medicine rotation experience. A superb combination of teaching excellence and patient care responsibility is afforded to the resident at SAVAHCS.
Tucson Medical Center
The Tucson Medical Center (TMC) Emergency Department is private staffed with an oustanding group of board-certified emergency physicians, many of who are our own alumni. TMC ED is very busy, seeing in excess of 85,000 patients per year. Residents work one on one under the direct supervison of atttending staff during their senior year.