Definitions for primary care typically refer to family physicians, general internists or general pediatricians. However, for the purposes of this scholarship, we also include three other critical access specialties — psychiatry, obstetrics and gynecology, and geriatric medicine — due to particular shortages in these specialties in Arizona. Thus, this scholarship considers a “primary care physician” as someone who has successfully completed medical school at the University of Arizona and completed residency or fellowship training in one of the following specialties:
- Family medicine.
- General internal medicine.
- Geriatric medicine.
- General pediatrics.
- General surgery.
- Obstetrics and gynecology.
- Psychiatry.