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: 

1.  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. 

2.  Subspecialty & Other Career Mentors:  

   1. • 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.

3.  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. 

4.  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. 

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

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. 

In the video below, you will learn more about how we prepare you for your future career, whatever that may be:

Fellowship 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: 

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. 

Other Specialty Preparation

Hematology/Oncology 

A Heme/Onc fellowship currently is in development, with the first trainees beginning in July 2025!  The fellowship will have two primary locations -- the  Banner MD Anderson Cancer Center downtown location (opened on the BUMCP campus in June 2019) and the Banner MD Anderson Cancer Center in Mesa (30 minutes East of BUMCP).

Although we currently don’t have a fellowship, all but one of our residents interested in Heme/Onc over the last 10 years have matched into fellowships.  One reason is the excellent clinical and research experiences available at both Banner MD Anderson Cancer Center locations.  Faculty at both of these Cancer Centers provide exceptional mentorship and clinical experiences in Hematology/Oncology. 

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.