Residents alternate their primary focus every 2 months the first 8 months, the standard core rotations in the first 8 months include:

  • Internal Medicine:
    • Banner University Wards 
    • Veterans Administration Wards
    • Internal Medicine Ambulatory Clinic
    • Banner Medical Intensive Care Unit
  • Pediatrics:
    • Phoenix Children’s Wards (2 months)
    • Phoenix Children’s Outpatient Ambulatory Clinic
    • St. Joseph’s Well Baby Nursery

The following rotations are completed either in the last 4 months of PGY-1 or the first 4 months of PGY-2 (as “Super-Terns”):

  • Internal Medicine:
    • Banner University Wards
    • Veterans Administration Wards
    • Banner Emergency Medicine
    • Adult Neurology or Adult Cardiology rotation
      • Whichever is not done here will be completed in PGY-2
  • Pediatrics:
    • Phoenix Children’s Wards 
    • Phoenix Children’s Developmental Pediatrics
    • St. Joseph’s Neonatal Intensive Care Unit
    • Valleywise Health Community Health Center (Outpatient Peds)