The Family, Community and Preventive Medicine department educates students and residents in the broad field of primary care, with emphasis on patient and population health and the professional skills essential for transforming health and health care in our communities. We provide training in the specialty of Family Medicine.

Medical Education programs led by FCPM Faculty for Medical Students, also called Undergraduate Medical Education.  Work in this area includes:

  • Core Family Medicine Clerkship 
  • Family Medicine Electives
  • Primary Care Excellence Program – a community of primary care mentors and faculty dedicated to guiding and developing the primary care career pathways for students
  • Accelerated 3-year medical school curriculum
  • Longitudinal Integrated Clerkship
  • Brief and extended rural education sites across the state
  • Family Medicine Interest Group
  • Certificates of Distinction in Service of Community—Special Populations Track, Health Promotion Track, and Advocacy Track
  • Medical School to Residency continuum sites (core clerkships and residency integrated in one location in Arizona)
  • Rural Health Professionals Program (RHPP)

Graduate Medical Education (Residency) Programs include Academic Urban, Rural, and Community Urban sites, Banner University Phoenix Family Medicine Residency, the Banner University Payson Rural Training Program, and the Banner Desert Family Medicine Residency.  

  • The department faculty facilitate state-wide programming that includes:
  • Arizona Residency Learning Collaborative, called PRICLE PEaR 
  • Arizona Academic Family Medicine Innovation Conference, called AAFMIC
  • Coordination of maternity care training (the ALSO course)
  • A statewide collaboration and resource hub for rural and primary care, called CACTUS WREN 
  • A technology enabled virtual learning network hub and resources, called SAGUARO

The department sponsors, co-sponsors and collaborates around post-GME fellowship training in Primary Care Sports Medicine, Addiction Medicine, Maternal-Child Health (surgical OB), Community Medicine, Faculty Development, and a Headache Medicine in partnership with Neurology (coming soon).