Residency curriculum
As the only residency program based out of HonorHealth Scottsdale Osborn Medical Center, the Family Medicine Residency program receives strong support from a highly skilled medical staff.
Since each resident has multiple interests, and because graduates go on to practice in a variety of settings, our program provides a strong foundational curricula with additional areas of concentration that include, but are not limited to:
- Academic medicine
- Addiction medicine
- Advocacy
- Geriatric medicine
- Hospitalist medicine
- Care of the LGBTQ+ community, including gender affirming care
- Osteopathic Medicine
- Palliative care
- Rural medicine
- Sports medicine
- Women's health, including obstetrics and maternity care
Required rotations by training year (PDF).
Elective rotations
Robust elective rotation opportunities are available which cover the entire scope of Family Medicine. You also have the opportunity to create additional elective educational experiences that focus on your personal areas of interest to you.
Teaching hospitals
- HonorHealth Scottsdale Osborn Medical Center
- HonorHealth Scottsdale Shea Medical Center
- Valleywise Health Medical Center
- St. Joseph Hospital and Medical Center dba Dignity Health
- Phoenix Children's Hospital
- Carl T. Hayden Veterans Affairs Medical Center
Procedure opportunities
There are extensive opportunities to perform procedures throughout your residency, both in the inpatient and outpatient setting. Some of the most common procedures include:
- Abscess incision and drainage
- Anoscopy
- Casting and splinting
- Central and arterial line placement
- Circumcision
- Colposcopy
- Cryotherapy of the skin
- Endometrial biopsy
- Ingrown toenail removal
- IUD & Nexplanon insertion and removal
- Joint and soft tissue aspiration and injection
- Laceration repair
- Lumbar puncture (infants and adults)
- Osteopathic manipulation treatment
- Skin lesion biopsy and removal
- Surgical first assist
- Multiple OB-related procedures: vaginal delivery, vacuum-assisted vaginal delivery, episiotomy and laceration repair, amniotomy
- A point of care ultrasound curriculum to augment the listed procedures