Creighton University East Valley Arizona Program

Program Identity & Fit

This is a community-based emergency medicine program operating within Dignity Health East Valley Arizona (Chandler) under the CommonSpirit Health system, in academic partnership with Creighton University School of Medicine – Phoenix. The identity is faith-based and mission-driven, explicitly oriented toward serving vulnerable populations and advancing health equity, with clinical training embedded in a large multi-hospital system rather than a single quaternary academic center. Research infrastructure exists at the system level through the Dignity Health Research Institute Arizona, but the available material frames research as an accessible resource rather than a defining pillar of the EM curriculum. The program's Creighton affiliation supplies academic scaffolding and faculty development structure layered onto a community hospital clinical environment, suggesting a training model built around broad clinical service to diverse, often underserved Phoenix-metro populations rather than subspecialty or basic-science output.