Banner Good Samaritan and the Phoenix VA

The internal medicine programs at Banner Good Samaritan Medical Center include categorical internal medicine, preliminary medicine, and combined medicine-pediatrics. Each program is fully integrated with the Phoenix Veterans Affairs Medical Center. Good Samaritan Hospital is a major teaching affiliate of the University of Arizona School of Medicine. Accordingly, faculty members at Good Sam hold academic positions from the University. Approximately one-third of the University of Arizona medical students complete their core clinical and elective rotations at Good Sam.

The program is designed to train physicians who will enter the field of general internal medicine or one of the subspecialties. Residents are exposed to patients from many different socioeconomic backgrounds who have a variety of common and uncommon medical problems. The program is designed to provide the residents with abundant elective time. This allows the house officer to explore his or her individual interests.

Elective time is spent in both the inpatient and outpatient settings.  Required rotations include emergency medicine, neurology, cardiology, geriatrics, ambulatory medicine and a research project. The program matches for 18 categorical interns per year and 6 combined MedPeds residents each year.

Training on the medicine wards at Good Sam/Phoenix VAMC has many advantages.  Residents work with Inpatient Academic Faculty at both locations who serve as the Teaching Attending & the Attending of Record for the team.  The curriculum is designed to provide graduated responsibility so that residents have an appropriate level of autonomy & supervision.  The VA Medical Center provides exposure to a large population of patients with a vast spectrum of general Internal Medicine problems.  Banner Good Samaritan serves as a tertiary referral center for the entire region.  This provides a separate, large & diverse population of patients so that our Internal Medicine Residents are exposed to all of the Internal Medicine Subspecialties as well, as they coordinate the care of their patients at Banner Good Sam.

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