Fellowships

The University of Arizona Department of Family Medicine offers several fellowship programs:

• CAM Research Training: This fellowship prepare qualified predoctoral and postdoctoral fellows to perform rigorous and innovative research on whole systems of CAM, and to proceed into productive and successful academic careers that will contribute to evaluating the effectiveness, safety, impact, whole person systemic effects, patient-centered and societal mechanisms of widely-used whole systems of CAM.
   
• Faculty Development: This fellowship provides an opportunity for educational experiences in teaching to clinicians involved with the instruction of medical students and/or residents. In addition clinicians are provided with an opportunity to conduct a scholarly project.
   
• Geriatrics: Offered through the department of Internal Medicine, this fellowship is designed to prepare physicians for a career in clinical or academic geriatric medicine.
   
• Integrative Medicine: The Integrative Medicine fellowship includes 1000 hours of web-based curriculum and three intense residential weeks through the Arizona Center for Integrative Medicine. Residents start the course work during their second and third year of Family Medicine residency. In the fourth postgraduate year the fellows put their knowledge into practice providing Integrative Medicine consultations at the Family Medicine Center, the Integrative Medicine clinic and the AZ Cancer Center Survivorship clinic.
   
• Master's of Public Health:
   
• Rural Faculty Development: This teleconferenced program provides an opportunity for rural preceptors of the students of the Colleges of Medicine, Nursing and Pharmacy to participate in a teaching skills program
   
• Sports Medicine: One-year ACGME-accredited sports medicine fellowship designed to teach residency-trained primary care physicians the principles and practice of sports medicine. Emphasis is placed on learning the clinical skills necessary to prevent and treat exercise-related injuries while promoting a healthy lifestyle and preparing the graduate to be a team physician.