Clinical Information

As in all Family Medicine residencies, our education is divided between inpatient and outpatient sites. The core learning experience involves treating patients and their families in the Family Medicine Center in increasing amounts of time over three years. We offer a number of experiences which we believe add to the quality of our program. These include:

Family medicine residents will rotate through the Family Medicine Center at Banner Good Samaritan Medical Center.

• A six-week, half-day-per-week first year orientation
• Special focus curricula in: obstetrics, rural practice, sports medicine, care to the underserved, faculty development
• The opportunity to customize electives
• Family Medicine Grand Rounds
• Regular half-day ambulatory care seminars 
• Rural rotation during the third year
• Faculty-resident lunches and breakfasts
• Numerous social activities involving residents, faculty and staff 
• Balint group
• Intern support group
• Annual resident-faculty retreat
• Residency-sponsored community service activities

Outpatient Training

• Residents manage an increasing caseload of patients as training progresses
• Office time is two 1/2 days per week in Year One and two to five 1/2 days per week in Years Two and Three
• Good opportunity for procedural training in Core Family Medicine procedures, office surgery, colposcopy, joint injections, circumcisions 
• Regular videotaping and review of patient encounters
• Residents follow continuity patients in the office and hospital
• Counseling skills taught through working with behavioral scientist in the Family Medicine Center.
• Experience with all forms of medical insurance and managed care
• Excellent experience managing continuity obstetrics under supervision of Family Medicine faculty
• Regular periods of intense direct observation and feedback by faculty
• Group visits for patients, co-managed by residents

We have ample faculty to provide clinical supervision of office practice and procedures; there are three preceptors in the office at all times.

Inpatient Training

• Family Medicine service reserved for Family Medicine Center and community faculty patients.
• Residents have increasing responsibility over three years:
  • Year 1: One-month rotation on floor
  • Year 2: Six-week rotation on floor
  • Year 3: Six-week rotation on floor with supervision responsibility for junior residents
• Resident supervision by family medicine faculty
• Consultation available from medicine, surgery, psychiatry, pharmacology, pain management, toxicology, pediatrics, OB/GYN, intensive care and a large number of subspecialties

Sample Rotation Schedules:

PGY I

PGY II

PGY III

Elective Months
A total of six elective months are scheduled in the second and third year.

(Elective rotations in the second and third years are interchangeable)