MedPeds residents are assigned to hospital based continuity clinics for the first 2 years of training.  All residents have ½ day of clinic per week in the first 2 years, alternating between the Phoenix Children’s Hospital Pediatric Continuity Clinic and the Banner Good Samaritan Internal Medicine Center Clinic.  In the clinic settings, residents establish continuity of care with a variety of patients.  MedPeds residents are supervised in the clinics by MedPeds Faculty.  Each clinic begins with a topic review from the Ambulatory Clinic Curriculum.  This clinic curriculum cycles on a 2 year schedule.  At the completion of the PGY2 year, each resident must complete a competency examination which measures medical knowledge pertaining to the clinic curriculum.

An additional ½ day of clinic is begun in the PGY3 & PGY4 years.  This may occur in the hospital based clinics to include a subspecialty clinic if residents are planning to enter subspecialty Fellowship training upon completion of the program.  Residents interested in entering a primary care practice following residency, have the opportunity to establish continuity within a private practice with a community MedPeds Faculty Member.  This gives them the opportunity to refine the ambulatory medicine skills they have developed in the first 2 years, and gives provides them the opportunity to understand practice management aspects of primary care.