Alvernon Family Medicine Residency Track

Alvernon Family Medicine Residency Track

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Welcome to the Alvernon Track

The Alvernon Track focuses on:

  • Underserved patients in a suburban/urban setting
  • Longitudinal integrative medicine experience

Alvernon Track graduates over the last three years: 

  • 44% practice in Arizona
  • 70% practice in health care professional shortage areas in the United States
  • 61% continue to incorporate

Program Highlights

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100% Board Pass Rate Over the Last 5 Years

 

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Patient Demographics
Alvernon Family Medicine Clinic
  • Hispanic or Latino: 28%
  • White: 53%
  • Black or African American: 11%
  • Native American: 1%
  • Asian: 2%
  • Unknown: 5%
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35+ Languages Spoken by our Patients
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Maternal Child Health Service
  • Average number of hospital newborn encounters for our graduates: 288
  • Average number of deliveries for our graduates: 46
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Inpatient

12 weeks on service as R1
8 weeks on service as R2
6 weeks on service as R3
2 weeks ICU as an R1

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Integrative Medicine

61% of our graduates since 2013 
practice integrative medicine 
post-training, compared to 17% 
of family medicine graduates nationally (source: National Graduate Survey)

Practice Locations

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Family Medicine Clinic at Alvernon

South Campus Hospital

Banner – University Medical Center South Campus

Banner-University Hospital

Banner – University Medical Center Tucson Campus

Location: 707 N. Alvernon Way, Tucson, AZ 85711, approximately two miles from Banner – University Medical Center Tucson
Size: Approximately 11,500 square feet with 25 exam rooms
Annual Patient Volume: Approximately 18,000 visits per year

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Banner – University Medical Center South Campus is the home of our family medicine adult inpatient service. We care for a large underserved population, including our own clinic patients, under- or uninsured individuals, undocumented immigrants, prisoners from the county jail and homeless individuals. Residents are exposed to critical care from their very first family medicine inpatient month as an intern. Attendings include faculty from the Alvernon location as well as family medicine hospitalists. Interns rotate through the emergency medicine service, while second- and third-year residents rotate through the surgery service and outpatient pediatric clinic.

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Banner – University Medical Center Tucson Campus is the primary teaching hospital for the University of Arizona College of Medicine – Tucson. Our second- and third-year residents care for their hospitalized pediatric and obstetric clinic patients through our Maternal-Child Health Program. Interns rotate through the emergency medicine, pediatrics and obstetrics services and act in the same capacity as EM, peds and OB residents, respectively, during those off-service months.

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Rural Rotations

Elective time can be used to do additional rural rotations; however, housing may not be provided.

Juneau, AK SEARHC

Rural Family Medicine: SouthEast Alaska Regional Health Consortium
Location: Juneau, Alaska
Type of Site: Alaska Native center
Housing: Provided by SEARHC

Special Features:

  • Outpatient, inpatient (pediatrics and option for adults), obstetrics
  • Medical home model for clinic with case managers in each pod
  • Complex medical needs
  • High volumes pediatrics
  • Many outpatient procedures
Valdez, AK

Rural Family Medicine: Providence Valdez Medical Center
Location: Valdez, Alaska
Type of Site: Frontier medicine
Housing: Home stay with one of the physicians

Special Features:

  • Full spectrum family medicine (including outpatient, inpatient, emergency, obstetrics)
  • Obstetrics includes surgical OB
  • Many pediatric patients
  • Remote site
  • Complex medical needs
  • Procedure heavy, including colonoscopies
Rural British Columbia, Canada

Rural FM: BC, Canada
Location: Rural British Columbia, Canada  
Housing: Home stay

Special Features:

  • Broad-spectrum family medicine (including inpatient, outpatient, emergency, urgent care)
  • Run by two graduates of our program
  • POCUS (point-of-care ultrasound)
  • A lot of fracture management
  • X-ray reading

Our Alvernon track residents are required to complete a two-week rotation at a rural pediatrics site.

Mariposa Community Health Center

Rural Site: Mariposa Community Health Center
Location: Nogales, Arizona, close to many historical sites
Type of Site: Border town
Distance from Tucson: 66 miles (1 hour and 10 minutes) south, along the U.S.-Mexico border.
Housing: Hotel extended stay

Special Features:

  • Bread-and-butter pediatrics and gynecology
  • Spanish-speaking patients (including Mexican citizens)
  • Interesting pathologie

 

 

Current & Past Residents

Alvernon Track ERAS ID: University of Arizona College of Medicine – Tucson Program Alvernon Family Medicine Track
NRMP ID: 1015120C0
ACGME ID: 1200312032

If you want to apply to both tracks, you must select each track separately under the Program Name: University of Arizona College of Medicine – Tucson Program. 

Guided by our vision of being an innovative, collaborative and mission-informed residency program, we seek applicants from diverse backgrounds to more closely match the diversity of our patient population and to meet the needs of our community.

The University of Arizona Family Medicine Residency Program uses the Electronic Residency Application Service (ERAS) for our application process, and positions are offered through the National Resident Matching Program (NRMP).

Only those applying through ERAS will be considered. Please contact your Dean’s Office for further information regarding this process.

Interviews will be scheduled following review of application materials. Applicants are selected to interview based on shared goals and values with our program.

A completed application includes:

  • ERAS application
  • Personal statement
  • Curriculum vitae
  • 3 letters of recommendation (one from a family physician with whom you have worked)
  • MSPE
  • Medical school transcripts
  • USMLE or COMLEX official transcripts

Preferred Criteria

  • Applicants must have a clear interest in family medicine and passion for working with underserved populations
  • Applicants must have passed USMLE Step 2 or COMLEX Level 2 before rank order list submission
  • Applicants should have graduated from medical school within the last two years
  • Application deadline is December 15
  • All new University of Arizona residents must obtain a valid fingerprint clearance card, in accordance with A.R.S. 15-1881, and pass a criminal background check

International Medical School Graduates

  • Applicant must have passed USMLE Step 1 and USMLE Step 2
  • Applicants must have a valid ECFMG certificate (http://www.ecfmg.org/certification)
  • Applicant must enter on a J1 visa; no other visa types are sponsored. Any premium processing fee is the responsibility of applicant.
  • ECFMG certification status and passing Step scores are verified prior to rank list submission.

The application deadline is December 15. Interviews will begin mid-October. Interview offers will continue to be extended until all slots are full, including in case of cancellation. Interviews are anticipated to end by the end of December.

For More Information

For more information about applying through ERAS, see your Graduate Medical Education office, or read about it on the ERAS home page: https://www.aamc.org/students/medstudents/eras

For questions regarding either of our tracks, please email uafmrp@arizona.edu.

Thank you for your interest in our program and good luck!

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Karyn Kolman, MD
Program Director
kbkolman@arizona.edu
520-621-6323