Residency curriculum
As the only residency program based at HonorHealth Scottsdale Osborn Medical Center, the Family Medicine Residency receives strong support from a highly skilled medical staff.
Since each resident has multiple interests and because graduates' practice settings vary, our program provides a flexible curriculum. It includes areas of concentration for:
- Academic medicine
- Addiction medicine
- Advocacy
- Geriatric medicine
- Hospitalist medicine
- Care of the LGBTQ+ community
- Osteopathic Medicine
- Palliative care
- Rural medicine
- Sports medicine
- Women's health IOB
Required rotations by training year (PDF).
Elective rotations
Robust elective rotation opportunities are available which cover the entire scope of Family Medicine. You have the ability to create additional elective educational experiences that focus on 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
- Colposcopy
- Endometrial biopsy
- Fracture casting and splinting
- IUD & Nexplanon insertion and removal
- Circumcision
- Lumbar puncture (infants and adults)
- Central and arterial line placement
- Joint and soft tissue aspiration and injection
- Skin lesion biopsy and removal
- Cryotherapy of the skin
- Ingrown toenail removal
- Laceration repair
- Surgical first assist (e.g., cesarean sections)
- Osteopathic manipulation treatment
- 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