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Mentoring
Our combination of formal and informal mentorship helps our residents achieve their goals. The faculty have strengths and specialties that match your needs. Whether residents are seeking guidance for a specific research project, a high value idea, career planning, finding harmony with life outside of medicine, or anything else, we are invested in your growth and development!
Formal Mentoring:
Associate Program Director Advisor: Your APD advisor is part of the Clinical Competency Committee, which tracks your overall progress during residency. They will meet with you at least twice a year to discuss your overall progress as part of your semi-annual performance review. They will help you to know how you are performing on all of the residency milestones, the next steps for being your best, and ensure you are on the correct trajectory towards graduation.
Subspecialty & Other Career Mentors:
For those considering future fellowship training, we encourage you to do a rotation in that field early in your training and/or attend our annual subspecialty fellowship panel in the fall. Through these contacts, you will begin to explore research ideas and create relationships with subspecialty mentors. They will help mentor you on your projects and path to fellowship.
Residents interested in hospital medicine or primary care also have dedicated and enthusiastic faculty who will serve as career mentors.
BETTER Project Mentors: During their first BETTER week, residents are paired with faculty mentors with similar interests. They receive ongoing mentorship in 2 -4 structured meetings per year (and more as needed) to continue to progress on the resident's quality improvement or research project. This guides residents to meet their scholarly activity goals during residency.
Program Director Semi-Annual Meetings: These serve as a chance to see how you are doing broadly, discuss your goals and aspirations, investigate what opportunities will help you to reach your goals, and discuss your experience as a resident.
Residents in any program may achieve clinical skill milestones at different times. This is normal and expected.
Our program doesn’t believe in a pass/fail model.
We believe that each of us gets better and better as a result of experience, reflection, and continuous improvement. We will support you along your journey.
Personalized Medical Education & Career Development Opportunities
Multiple opportunities:
Personalized schedule for your clinical experiences, based on your intended career path
Programs of Individualized Education (PIE) Certificates (described in more detail here and here)
Mentoring tailored to your interests & needs
Research and QI opportunities tailored to your interests
PD & APDs provide mock interviews and coaching for fellowship interviews
Community outreach, service, leadership, academic medicine, & advocacy opportunities with mentoring by faculty with experience in and who are passionate about these areas
Global health program
Retreats & Events
Our training program is committed to offering not just superb training in clinical skills and medical knowledge, but also other skills that you will need to be successful in your career, including teaching skills, leadership, patient safety and quality improvement, communication, and professionalism.
We host a number of meaningful retreats and events over the 3 years of your IM residency:
Intern Retreat - November of intern year
Reflection, ongoing skill development, and wellness in intern year
Topics: Clinical reasoning, stress management, teamwork, reflection on your own work style & how that impacts your interactions with team members, etc.
VADER ("Valuable Advice to Develop into an Extraordinary Resident") - June of intern year
Preparation for the transition to PGY-2 and being a senior resident
Topics: Handling rapid responses, leading a team, helping a struggling learner, navigating difficult conversations, wellness, etc.
PGY-2 Retreat - second half of PGY-2 year
Looking ahead to career planning and what comes next after residency
Topics: Career development, applying for fellowship/attending job, teaching skills, wellness
Resident Appreciation Day - every Spring, for all residents
A celebration of our residents! Fun, community, wellness, and appreciation.
Morning: Held at a local park, with games, activities, and prizes & a raffle sponsored by program attendings
Afternoon: Sporting event (usually a Diamondbacks game)
Residents enjoying a baseball game together as part of Resident Appreciation Day
Career & Fellowship Opportunities
An important part of our AIM is to prepare you for whatever career area you're passionate about and to help you to find a position that will allow you to provide excellent patient care in that setting.
Click here to see what our residency program graduates have done as the next step in their careers.
In the video below, you will learn more about how we prepare you for your future career, whatever that may be:
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mentoring.mp4Fellowship Programs
The University of Arizona College of Medicine - Phoenix currently sponsors Fellowship Programs in the following subspecialties that our IM residency grads may be interested in pursuing:
Traditional post-residency fellowship
Combined Internal Medicine/Geriatrics Track (Med-Geri) within our IM Residency Program
As a part of an exciting GME expansion effort at UArizona - Phoenix, fellowships in the following subspecialties are currently in development at our institution!
Infectious Diseases -- start date TBD
Rheumatology -- start date TBD
Fellowship Preparation
Program leadership helps residents prepare for fellowship interviews through mock interviews and personalized coaching.
In the videos below, our graduates describe how our residency program prepared them for fellowship. Additional graduate testimonial videos about fellowship and career preparation can be found here.
Fellowship.mp4Dr. Mark PedersenGastroenterology Fellowship - University of Texas Southwestern
cardiology.mp4Dr. Michael SultanCardiology Fellowship - University of Arizona College of Medicine - Phoenix
HemOnc.mp4Dr. Nick ThomsonHematology / Oncology Fellowship - University of Tennessee
In addition to entering fellowships, our residency graduates also pursue careers in Hospital Medicine, Academic Medicine, and Primary Care.
Global Health Program
Residents may participate in various opportunities through the UA COM-P global health program if that is one of your areas of passion:
Summer and Fall Trips to the Dominican Republic:
Residents accompany students & UA faculty on a week-long trip to the Dominican Republic to care for Haitian refugees.
"Away" Elective in Global Health:
Residents may do a 1-month global health elective, choosing from many different sites vetted by the Global Health Director.
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