Curriculum
Our curriculum will constantly evolve with input from the residents. Together as a group, faculty and residents will review the curriculum in depth annually.
We aim to improve our training experiences to meet the future needs of our residents and their patients, using the widening circle of resources that become available to us.
Your first year in the Program consists of 13 four-week blocks. They are divided up as follows:
- Orientation (1 block)
- Family Medicine Inpatient Service (4 blocks)
- Night Float (0.5 block)
- Pediatrics, Inpatient (2 blocks)
- Obstetrics, Inpatient (2 block)
- Surgery, Inpatient (1 block)
- Newborn, Inpatient (0.5 block)
- Pediatrics, Outpatient (1 block)
- Wound Care (0.25 block)
- Vacation (0.75 block divided into a one-week and two-week segment)
Continuity clinic 1-2 half days per week.
Your second year in the Program consists of 13 four-week blocks. They are divided up as follows:
- Family Medicine Inpatient Service (2.5 blocks)
- Night Float (1 block)
- ICU (0.5 block)
- Pediatrics ED/Urgent Care (0.5 block)
- Obstetrics, Inpatient (1 Block)
- Emergency Medicine/Peds ED (1 block)
- Family Medicine Intensive, Outpatient (1 block)
- Pediatrics, Outpatient (1 block)
- Psychiatry/Addiction Medicine (1 block)
- Geriatrics/Hospice and Palliative Care (1 block)
- Cardiology (1 block)
- Elective (0.75 block)
- Vacation (0.75 block divided into a one-week and two-week segment)
Continuity clinic 2-3 half days per week.
Additional innovative curriculum and longitudinal experiences available:
Lean Six Sigma Green Belt Training: This is an in-depth immersion into a multidisciplinary approach for institutional improvement. Residents partner with the hospital's Process Excellence Department and participate alongside hospital leadership for Lean-Six Sigma training to become certified as Lean-Six Sigma Green Belts upon completion of the program. This program is offered in the spring to PGY-2 residents (you are excused from rotations during training).
Family Medicine Intensive and Community Medicine: The goal of this rotation is to continue to engage and better prepare residents for the rigor and pace of outpatient medicine and to introduce them to community engagement and outreach, advocacy, population health and quality improvement. Residents spend five to eight half days in clinic and work alongside a multidisciplinary team consisting of the quality improvement director, providers who specialize in the chronic disease care for patients with HIV and Hepatitis, and the chief operational officer of East Valley Community Health Center. Residents conduct a quality improvement project on their own panel of patients as well as a longitudinal and broader scope community project that is passed on from resident to resident.
Elective choices:
- Gastroenterology
- Rheumatology
- Endocrinology
- Nephrology
- Cardiology
- Pulmonology
- Infectious diseases
- Procedures
- Sleep medicine
- Hematology/oncology
- Hospice/palliative care
- Wound care
- Podiatry
- Ophthalmology
- Ultrasound
Your third and final year in the Program consists of 13 four-week blocks. They are divided up as follows:
- Family Medicine Inpatient Service (1- 1.25 blocks)
- Night Float (0.5 block)
- Gynecology (1 block)
- Emergency Medicine (1 block)
- Family Medicine Intensive & Community Medicine/HIV and Population Health (1.5 blocks)
- Orthopedics (1 block)
- Sports Medicine (1 block)
- Dermatology (1 block)
- Ophthalmology (0.5 block)
- Practice Management (0.5 block)
- Electives (3 blocks)
- Vacation (0.75 block divided into a one-week and two-week segment)
Continuity clinic 3-4 half days per week.
Additional innovative curriculum and longitudinal experiences available:
Family Medicine Intensive and Community Medicine: The goal of this rotation is to continue to engage and better prepare residents for the rigor and pace of outpatient medicine and to introduce them to community engagement, advocacy, population health and quality improvement. Residents spend five to eight half days in clinic and continue to receive additional training in the care of HIV patients and in the care of adolescents at a school-based teen clinic.
Elective choices:
- Gastroenterology
- Rheumatology
- Endocrinology
- Nephrology
- Cardiology
- Pulmonology
- Infectious diseases
- Procedures
- Sleep medicine
- Hematology/oncology
- Hospice/palliative care
- Wound care
- Podiatry
- Ophthalmology
- Ultrasound
Away elective: A one-block away elective may be granted to residents in good academic standing upon discretion from the program. Residents will be responsible for any costs associated with travel and housing for an away elective.
Electives may also include any additional experience on the core rotations as desired in preparation for future practice.
* Curriculum is subject to change