Phoenix Campus

The University of Arizona College of Medicine — Phoenix is home to a full, four-year medical education program that was dedicated in October 2006. It is an expansion to downtown Phoenix of the UA College of Medicine program begun in 1992 that offered third- and fourth-year medical students the opportunity to complete their training at Phoenix-area hospitals. Offices and classrooms of the College of Medicine — Phoenix are located in renovated historic buildings on the Phoenix Biomedical Campus in downtown Phoenix. A new Health Sciences Educational Building, designed to promote interprofessional education, currently is under construction.The campus also is home to Translational Genomics Research Institute (TGen) and the Arizona Biomedical Collaborative, a joint research venture of the UA, Arizona State University (ASU) and Northern Arizona University (NAU).

The College of Medicine – Phoenix is a collaborative effort among the City of Phoenix, TGen, Valley hospitals, community physicians, foundations and other organizations to bring research and biomedical engineering to Maricopa County and further strengthen health care for Arizona.