HonorHealth Program

Program Identity & Fit

HonorHealth's PM&R program is the only physiatry residency in Arizona, a young but ACGME-accredited four-year continuum that begins with an internal medicine preliminary year embedded within HonorHealth's own IM program. Its defining structural feature is breadth of clinical exposure across disparate institutions - HonorHealth Rehabilitation Hospital, the Phoenix VA, Barrow Neurological Institute, Mayo Clinic, and Phoenix Children's Hospital - giving residents rotations spanning inpatient neurorehabilitation, pediatric rehab, musculoskeletal/ultrasound, interventional pain, and electrodiagnostics rather than a single dominant care model. Small class size (four per year) is framed explicitly around personalized, one-on-one faculty interaction rather than high-volume production, and the program has built a distinctive Lifestyle Medicine Longitudinal Pathway offering board-certification eligibility in that domain alongside standard PM&R training. Research is present through the institutional ResQIPS curriculum and HonorHealth Research Institute but is structured as a quality-improvement/poster-presentation expectation rather than a hypothesis-driven research identity, and the program explicitly frames its curriculum as preparing residents for either direct workforce entry or fellowship.