Residency Curriculum

[Please wait for download] As the only residency program at Scottsdale Healthcare Osborn, our residents enjoy strong support from the highly skilled medical staff. A diverse group of community physicians enthusiastically teach our residents and work collaboratively with the residency program. Recognizing the multiple interests and varied eventual practice settings of our graduates, our program offers a flexible competency based curriculum with a variety of areas of concentration, including medicine for the underserved, hospitalist, rural medicine, sports medicine, obstetrics, geriatrics, faculty development, palliative care, research, and urgent care/emergency medicine.
Our osteopathic resident physicians have the opportunity to hone their OMT skills in conjunction with our structured osteopathic medicine curriculum.

Our educational curriculum is designed to address the development of clinical skills as defined by the American Council for Graduate Medical Education (ACGME)'s six areas of general competencies:
  1. Patient Care
  2. Medical Knowledge
  3. Practice-based Learning and Improvement
  4. Interpersonal and Communication Skills
  5. Professionalism
  6. Systems-based Practice
All evaluations, including rotation, faculty, and summative evals demonstrate adequate acquisition of each competency.

I. First Year
  • Inpatient Teaching Service (3 months)
  • Cardiology (1 month)
  • Emergency Room (1 month)
  • General Surgery (1 month)
  • Geriatrics (2 weeks)
  • Obstetrics (2 months)
  • Pediatrics, Inpatient (2 months)
  • Psychiatry, Consultation Services (1 month)
  • Vacation (2 weeks)

II. Second Year
  • Inpatient Teaching Service (2 months)
  • Geriatrics/Community Medicine (1 month)
  • Gynecology (1 month)
  • Newborn Nursery/NICU (1 month)
  • Pediatrics, Ambulatory (including Pediatric ER) (1 month)
  • Orthopedics (1 month)

III. Third Year
  • Inpatient Teaching Service (1 month)
  • Pediatrics, Inpatient (1 month)

IV. Second or Third Year
  • Addictions/Practice Management (2 weeks)
  • Dermatology (1 month)
  • ENT (2 weeks)
  • General or Trauma Surgery (1 month)
  • Internal Medicine Subspecialties: (a composite of 12 weeks of the following subspecialties must be completed during training)
    • Allergy/Immunology
    • Endocrinology
    • Gastroenterology
    • Hematology/Oncology
    • Infectious Disease
    • Intensive Care
    • Nephrology
    • Pulmonology
    • Rheumatology
  • Ophthalmology (2 weeks)
  • Orthopedics or Sports Medicine (1 month)
  • Radiology (2 weeks)
  • Urology (2-4 weeks)


Elective Rotations
  • Adolescent Medicine
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  • Intensive Care
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  • Advanced Geriatrics
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  • Neonatal ICU
  • Alternative Medicine
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  • Obstetrics
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  • Behavioral Science
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  • Pain Management
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  • Child Development
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  • Plastic Surgery
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  • Emergency Medicine
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  • Podiatry
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  • Family Medicine Preceptorship
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  • Preventive Medicine
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  • Hand Surgery
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  • Radiology
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  • HIV
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  • Rehabilitation/Physical Medicine
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  • Hospitalist
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  • Rural Preceptorship
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  • Individual Study
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  • Research
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  • NOAH - Community Service Elective
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  • Sports Medicine
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  • Urgent Care
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  • Trauma
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  • University of Arizona sponsored Faculty Development Fellowship
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  • Pediatric Subspecialties: Allergy and Immunology, Behavioral Health, Child Development, Emergency Room, Endocrinology, Orthopedics, or Surgery
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  • Additional Certifications:
    Advance Trauma Life Support (ATLS)
    Pediatric Advanced Life Support (PALS)
    Advanced Life Support in Obstetrics (ALSO)
    Neonatal Advanced Life Support (NALS)


    Procedure Opportunities

    Our residents have extensive opportunities to perform a wide variety of procedures throughout their residency education, both in the inpatient and outpatient settings. Procedure documentation is required. Our full time family medicine faculty and community attendings are highly skilled and enthusiastically teach and assist the residents with procedures.

    Listed below are some of the most common procedure opportunities that our residents gain experience in throughout their training:

  • Flexible sigmoidoscopy
  • Central and arterial line placement
  • Anoscopy
  • Slit lamp examination
  • Colposcopy
  • Joint and soft tissue aspiration and injection
  • Cryotherapy of the cervix
  • Skin lesion biopsy and removal
  • LEEP
  • Cryotherapy of the skin
  • Endometrial biopsy
  • Ingrown toenail removal
  • IUD inserton and removal
  • Laceration repair
  • Nasopharyngoscopy
  • Incision and drainage of abscesses
  • Cardiac Treadmill testing
  • Casting and splinting of fractures
  • Circumcision
  • Surgical first assist (e.g. Cesarean sections)
  • Lumbar puncture (infants and adults)
  • OMT
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  • Multiple OB related procedures: vaginal delivery,vacuum assisted vaginal delivery,episiotomy & laceration repair,amniotomy

    • Educational Workshops

    Our year-long curriculum of Educational Workshops is designed to supplement the residents' clincal experiences. Topics are geared toward meeting the needs of the residents at different stages in their training.
    Educational Workshop Schedule for 2009 - 2010


    Recent & Ongoing Research Projects by our Residents and Faculty

  • Restless Leg Syndrome: Diagnostic Time Savers and Treatment Tips
  • Measuring Awareness, Interest, and Involvement in the Osteopathic Community through Board Certification: A Survey of DO Residents in ACGME-Accredited Training Programs
  • Colorectal Cancer Screening in Family Medicine Patients: A Pilot Study
  • Literacy in the Primary Care Office: A formal evaluation of health literacy in two clinic sites in Scottsdale, AZ
  • Pedometer Use to motivate Walking and Weight Loss
  • Prevalence of Depression in Primary Care Patients Outpatients who present with Headache
  • Rates of Childhood Depression, Eating Attitudes, and Body Perception in Obese versus Non-obese Children in our Community
  • The Electronic Medical Record and the Doctor-Patient Relationship
  • Visual Aid Use in Patient Education
  • Multiple poster and oral presentations by residents at various local and national conferences