University of Arizona College of Medicine-Tucson Program

Program Identity & Fit

The University of Arizona Combined Emergency Medicine and Pediatrics Residency is a five-year academic program embedded in a department with a research-driven institutional identity, anchored by the Arizona Emergency Medicine Research Center (AEMRC) and its faculty-led programs in prehospital care, critical care, airway management and point-of-care ultrasound. Trainees rotate through Banner-University Medical Center Tucson, a Level I trauma center with a dedicated pediatric ED and over 95,000 annual visits, alongside Banner-University Medical Center South, a community-academic hybrid site, giving combined residents exposure across trauma acuity and community-based pediatric and adult emergency care. Every resident in the department completes ScholarQuest, an original mentored research project culminating in presentation, reflecting an institutional expectation of scholarly output rather than optional research exposure. The program's six co-located fellowships (critical care, EMS, ultrasound, simulation, toxicology, sports medicine) and its dual-boarding structure position graduates for fellowship subspecialization or academic emergency medicine/pediatrics careers rather than general community practice.