Facilities and Educational Resources

Banner Good Samaritan Medical Center has served as a leader in health care in the Southwest since 1911. It is the flagship of Banner Health, the largest medical system in Arizona, with facilities throughout the state. Our Medical Center is an academically oriented community hospital with over 250 residents and fellows in all the major specialties and an enthusiastic and experienced hospital-based faculty.

The Medical Center's 60 acre campus includes state-of-the-art diagnostic, emergency and support services. Our Health Sciences Library houses an impressive computer laboratory and ready access to essentially all medical journals and textbooks. There is a separate library within our Psychiatry Department with major textbooks, journals, computerized educational resources and an excellent psychoanalytic collection.

The clinical Psychiatry programs at Banner Good Samaritan include 22 inpatient beds and attractive outpatient clinics with offices for each resident. Our active consultation-liaison and emergency psychiatric services allow routine interaction with non-psychiatric colleagues throughout the Medical Center.

Our residents are exposed to an excellent mixture of public, managed care and private patients with diverse economic and socio-cultural backgrounds and every type of psychiatric illness, level of acuity and age. Our Psychiatry Residency Program also offers required and elective experiences at other well-supervised, nearby clinical sites, including the Veteran's Administration Medical Center (VAMC), Phoenix Children's Hospital (PCH), a community mental health clinic, a Psychiatric urgent care center, forensic settings, Arizona State University, the Arizona State Hospital and outreach to rural areas.

The not-for-profit Banner Health System's regional network of nine hospitals and three behavioral health centers offers attractive options for those considering career opportunities in Arizona upon graduation.