Creighton University East Valley Arizona Program

Program Identity & Fit

This is a faith-based, community-embedded family medicine program operating through the partnership of Creighton University School of Medicine's Phoenix campus and Dignity Health East Valley Arizona, training residents within the CommonSpirit Health system whose explicit mission centers on serving vulnerable populations and advancing health equity. The clinical environment draws on a large multi-hospital Catholic health system rather than a single quaternary academic medical center, giving residents exposure to community-based, mission-driven care delivery embedded in an academic partnership rather than a free-standing research powerhouse. Research infrastructure exists at the system level (Dignity Health Research Institute Arizona, Barrow Neurological Institute affiliation) but is not described as central to the family medicine curriculum itself, suggesting research is available and supported rather than a defining identity. The program's public materials emphasize compassion, inclusion, and service to underserved communities over procedural volume, named tracks, or fellowship pipelines, indicating a values- and mission-alignment orientation in how it presents itself.