Three-Year Curriculum
As part of our program, residents will be expected to do some ride-along time in GROUND based ambulances. Residents will NOT be required to do ride-along time in AIR ambulances. Opportunities for the latter do exist, but are optional.
PGY I
- 4 weeks - Orientation
- 6.5, 4-week blocks- Emergency Department-University Medical Center/University Physicians Hospital at Kino Campus.
- 4 weeks - Internal Medicine-Veterans' Administration Medical Center
- 4 weeks-Emergency Surgery/Trauma-UMC
- 4 weeks-Orthopedics-UMC
- 2 weeks-Obstetrics-UMC
- 4 weeks-Anesthesia-UMC
- 4 weeks-Vacation (split into two 2-week blocks)
PGY II
- 8, 4-week blocks-Emergency Department-UMC/University Physicians Hospital at Kino Campus
- 4 weeks Pulmonary Intensive Care-UMC
- 4 weeks-Surgical Intensive Care/In-House Code Team-UMC
- 2 weeks Cardiology-VA Health Care System
- 2 weeks Toxicology/Burn Center
- 4 weeks-Selective
- 4 weeks Vacation (split into two 2-week blocks)
PGY III
- 9, 4-week blocks-Emergency Department-UMC/University Physicians Hospital at Kino Campus
- 4 weeks-Emergency Department-Tucson Medical Center
- 4 weeks-Pediatric Intensive Care-UMC
- 4 weeks Trauma Captain-UMC
- 4 weeks-Selective
- 4 weeks-Vacation (split into two 2-week blocks)
Information Mastery
The objective of the three-year integrated Information Mastery curriculum is to enable our graduates to fully understand and use the scientific literature in their future practice -- whether that be primarily clinical or as a physician-scientist. The curriculum has three longitudinal courses: Journal Club, Evidence-Based Medicine and ScholarQuest. ScholarQuest is a novel and ambitious journey that leads each and every resident through an original research project.
"Merit Badges"
ACLS, ACLS Instructor, ATLS, PALS, Base Station Physician Course
Arizona Health Sciences Center
University Medical Center is the primary teaching hospital for the Emergency Medicine Residency Program. The Arizona Health Sciences Center complex serves as the premier referral center for much of the southwestern United States. It features a full range of primary and subspecialty services, including more than 30 accredited training programs. The complex includes the Colleges of Medicine, Nursing, Pharmacy and Zuckerman College of Public Health, on a rapidly expanding 30-acre site. The University of Arizona is listed as one of the United States' top 10 research universities by the National Science Foundation.
University Medical Center Emergency Department
The UMC Emergency Department is the primary teaching setting in which more than 70,000 patients will be cared for this year. These patients comprise a diverse socio-economic mixture. Being a primary provider of indigent care through the Arizona Health Care Cost Containment System, the Regional Level One trauma center, and a tertiary care referral hospital creates an extremely interesting milieu of patient pathology. The acuity is very high and the turnover rapid. Approximately 80 percent of a resident's ED time will be at UMC.
University Physicians Healthcare Hospital at Kino Campus
The UPH Kino ED has become an important contributor to our teaching program. Our integrated faculty supervise our residents in this unique setting that will serve about 30,000 patients this year.
Southern Arizona Veterans Affairs Health Care System
The Southern Arizona Veterans Affairs Health Care System in Tucson has an outstanding national reputation for both research and clinical practice. This sprawling Spanish Colonial complex serves as the Internal Medicine teaching institution in the PGY I. A superb combination of teaching excellence and patient care responsibility is afforded to the resident. The Intensive Care Units are state-of-the-art, all patient laboratories and past medical records are computer accessible at the wards, and the latest diagnostic imaging equipment is available on site.
Tucson Medical Center
The TMC Emergency Department is private practice staffed and very busy, seeing in excess of 55,000 patients per year. It is staffed with an outstanding group of board-certified Emergency Medicine physicians. Residents work one-on-one under the direct supervision of this Attending staff during part of the senior year.
