New Mexico Primary Care Training Consortium Program

Program Identity & Fit

This is a newly launched, unopposed internal medicine residency at San Juan Regional Medical Center, a 198-bed Level III trauma center in rural Farmington, NM, built around a mission-driven, no-overnight-call model emphasizing balance among self, community, and land in the medically complex, underserved Four Corners region. Distinctive curricular features include a street medicine track, high-altitude medicine elective, an international ward rotation in New Zealand, and structured point-of-care ultrasound/procedural simulation training layered onto inpatient-outpatient primary care. Scholarly activity is present through QI and evidence-based medicine curricula but is not positioned as a research-intensive identity; the program instead foregrounds wellness, social determinants of health, and rural community integration. As a rural, primary-care-oriented consortium member, it appears to value residents drawn to underserved, geographically remote practice and holistic physician well-being over subspecialty fellowship pipelines.