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Welcome and thank you for your interest in our new Family Medicine Residency Program at El Rio Health in Tucson, Arizona. We are thrilled with your plans to be a specialist in Family Medicine. Recently accredited by the ACGME, we will matriculate our inaugural residents in July 2025. Our goal is to graduate exceptional family physicians and leaders with the skills to care for individuals from all backgrounds using their clinical acumen, compassion and understanding of the communities served. Our curriculum is focused on the breadth and sophistication of family medicine while paying attention to community needs. Faculty and residents work together to manage patients’ physical and psychological conditions and provide preventive health care.
– Edward J. Schwager, MD, FAAFP, Program Director
The El Rio Health Family Medicine Residency program prepares resident physicians for a lifelong career in family medicine. The program’s curriculum is focused on community needs, evidence-based medicine, and quality improvement in healthcare. Residents can participate in teen clinic, special immunology, and sports medicine in addition to many other community experiences.
“Choosing residency training at El Rio Health is a choice to learn clinical medicine in the context of the community health center movement. The legacy of that movement is excellence in acute care, chronic care, preventive health services and wellness programs, and advocacy. It is clinical medicine that combines patient need with community need and always seeks to bring to the table all those within our community, to make sure everyone’s voice is heard and understood. It is a legacy that seeks to overcome disparities of care and disenfranchisement. By choosing El Rio Health Family Medicine Residency you will be part of a Teaching Health Center, with nine active residencies and student learner programs, committed to interdisciplinary learning experiences. We invite you to join us and become part of the legacy that is El Rio Health.”
– Douglas Spegman, Chief Clinical Officer, El Rio Health
AMA Joy In Medicine Gold Level Recipient The prestigious AMA distinction is granted to organizations that meet the rigorous criteria of the Joy in Medicine Health System Recognition Program and acknowledges the nation’s leaders in prioritizing proven efforts to enhance the well-being and professional fulfillment of physicians. El Rio Health is one of eleven gold awardees nation-wide and is the first Federally Qualified Health Center to receive this recognition. Learn more HERE.