Banner Good Samaritan/Phoenix VA Medical Center
Internal Medicine Programs
An Educational Innovations Project Program
Welcome to the Internal Medicine Programs at Banner Good Samaritan Medical Center ("Good Sam")! We are pleased to have you visit our website and are continually making updates, so check back frequently. Our programs include categorical internal medicine, preliminary medicine, and combined medicine-pediatrics. We are fully integrated with the Phoenix Veterans Affairs Medical Center. Good Samaritan is a major teaching affiliate of the University of Arizona School of Medicine. Accordingly, all faculty members at Good Sam hold academic positions from the University. Approximately 40% of the University of Arizona medical students completes their core clinical and elective rotations at Good Sam. Recently, the Good Samaritan/Phoenix VAMC Internal Medicine Program became one of 17 original members into the Educational Innovations Project (EIP) of the RRC, an honor of which we are very proud. For more information about the EIP, click on the link below.
Our program is designed to tailor your individual training needs. Whether you choose traditional internal medicine, ambulatory or hospital medicine, or focus on one of the subspecialties, we have a rich variety of experiences available. Good Sam is Arizona's largest and busiest tertiary medical center, which sits in downtown Phoenix, the fifth largest city in the country. As such, residents are exposed to patients from all different socioeconomic backgrounds who have a both common and rare medical problems. Abundant elective time is spent in both the inpatient and outpatient settings. Required rotations include emergency medicine, neurology, geriatrics, ambulatory medicine and a research month. The program matches for 20 interns per year for a total of 60 categorical residents.
Training on the medicine wards at Good Sam/Phoenix VAMC has many advantages; rather, a “best of both worlds”, if you will. First, there is ample time at the VA, allowing for a comfortable amount of autonomy, with fellows and full-time hospitalists as guidance. Multidisciplinary teams facilitate safe patient care. At Good Sam, full-time academic faculty round in typical university fashion. Efficient access and teaching from subspecialists is also available.
This leads to a comprehensive, well-rounded post-graduate education that compliments our ambulatory training experience.
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