Residency Experience

Clinical

Banner - UMC South Hospital 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 Medical Toxicology, Sports Medicine, Critical Care, Global Health, and EMS. Our residents have numerous procedure experiences and serve as the first called for trauma resuscitations and orthopedic reductions at South Campus. We participate in a three-year longitudinal EMS curriculum.

During the three-year residency, residents assume increasing responsibility for patient care and emergency department flow. Each clinical year includes six+ 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 developing initial clinical decision-making skills. PGY2: Education goals include improving patient care efficiency, graduated responsibility for emergency department flow and procedural excellence. Residents will develop skills to evaluate and manage critically ill patients. 
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. 

Sample Block Schedule

Didactics

A comprehensive didactic curriculum specifically developed for this program combines core content with culturally specific topics, including Medical Spanish language immersion and Simulation Medicine. Also, residents will be actively involved in case conferences, Continuous Process Improvement and Continuous Quality Improvement. Our class size of eight residents per year allows for more resident and faculty interaction at the weekly conferences.