Required, elective and specialty rotations to fit your professional career path.

The Dignity Health East Valley internal medicine residency program is one-of-a-kind. Our approach to rotations is rewarding, effective, sustainable and flexible. Our electives - more than 26 - allow you to customize your schedule to fit your interests.

Unique rotation structure and offerings 

Our innovative framework includes special rotations to allow residents to personalize and select the path you want. Your rotations may allow you to experience a hospitalist-type environment or, through primary care electives, experience what it’s like to run and be part of a private practice setting.

Block schedule for internal medicine residency

PGY-1 Categorical

  • Elective - 2 months
  • Inpatient - 5 months
  • Emergency department - 1 month
  • Neurology - 1 month
  • Ambulatory - 2 months
  • Night float - 1 month
  • Intensive care unit - 1 month

  • PGY-Preliminary

    • Inpatient Medicine – 4 months
    • Electives – 4 months
    • Neurology – 1 month
    • Ambulatory Clinic – 1 month
    • Night Float – 1 month
    • ICU – 1 month
    • Emergency Medicine – 1 month

  • PGY-2

    • Inpatient - 3 months
    • Ambulatory - 2 months
    • Elective - 4 months
    • Night float - 1 month
    • Selective - 1 month
    • Geriatrics - 1 month
    • Intensive care unit - 1 month

  • PGY-3

    • Selective - 1 month
    • Inpatient - 2 months
    • Ambulatory - 2 months
    • Intensive care unit - 1 month
    • Elective - 6 months
    • Night float - 1 month

Elective and selective rotations

Selective Rotations can include any of the following depending on resident career aspirations: hospitalist medicine, advanced critical care, private outpatient practice, or research.

Elective rotation availability for residents include:

  • Allergy and immunology
  • Cardiology
  • Dermatology
  • Endocrinology
  • Gastroenterology
  • Hematology
  • Infectious disease
  • Nephrology
  • Office ENT
  • Office GYN
  • Office ophthalmology
  • Office orthopedics
  • Pain medicine
  • Palliative medicine
  • Physical medicine
  • Procedural medicine
  • Psychiatry
  • Pulmonary medicine
  • Radiology
  • Rheumatology
  • Young adult medicine