Resident orientation gives incoming IM interns inside look at physician training

First-year residents known as interns in the University of Arizona Internal Medicine Residency Program – Tucson Campus got a jump start on their July 1 start date as physician trainees in the Department of Medicine with an orientation session held in Lecture Hall Room 5403 on Monday, June 17.

[Residency program staff Julie Forte (left) and Monica Jimenez check over the pager numbers to make sure physicians get the right pagers.]Just as the DOM is the largest department at the college with about 275 faculty members, the residency program is the largest at either the College of Medicine – Tucson or Phoenix with 122 residents.

Staff – including program manager Mary Gosciminski, coordinators Jazmine Aguilar and Monica Jimenez, and admin and credentialing specialist Julie Forte – scrambled to make sure everyone had their white coats, stethoscopes, pagers and schedules.

And DOM Vice Chair of Education Amy Sussman, MD, a professor in the Division of Nephrology, its fellowship program director and director of the DOM Internal Medicine Clerkship, gave them the quick overview and tips on a successful residency experience. Her first lesson: “Teaching Expectations for Clerkship Students.”

The photo gallery below illustrates the excitement of the moment.

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[Internal Medicine Residency Program – Tucson Campus residents gather for their first orientation, June 17, 2024, at Lecture Hall Room 5403 in the University of Arizona College of Medicine – Tucson.] [Internal Medicine Residency Program – Tucson Campus residents gather for their first orientation, June 17, 2024, at Lecture Hall Room 5403 in the University of Arizona College of Medicine – Tucson.] [Residency program staff Julie Forte (left) and Monica Jimenez check over the pager numbers to make sure physicians get the right pagers.] [Residency program manager Mary Gosciminski hands out personalized white coats to physicians.]

[Internal Medicine Residency Program – Tucson Campus residents gather for their first orientation, June 17, 2024, at Lecture Hall Room 5403 in the University of Arizona College of Medicine – Tucson.] [Residency program coordinator Jazmine Aguilera hands out personalized white coats to physicians.] [Amy Sussman, MD, surveys the room and waits for new physicians to join he for their first class as internal medicine residents in training] [Residency program coordinator Jazimine Aguilera makes sure a physician has the correct white coat]

[Residency program coordinator Jazimine Aguilera makes sure a physician has the correct white coat] [Two residents check their pagers to see what all they do] [Last minute backpack check's to make sure they've got everything stowed away] [And now, for their first lesson in being a physician and teaching medical students]

(Photos courtesy of David Mogollon, Department of Medicine communications manager.)

ALSO SEE:
“Photo Gallery: New Physicians-in-Training Get Oriented at Marriott Event, June 30” | Posted July 14, 2019
“COM-T MedEd Update: Orientation Week and Multiple Mini Interview Assistance” | Posted July 12, 2019
“Banner New Resident Orientation Event Draws 700 Physicians in Training” | Posted June 30, 2019
“Forty-Plus New Banner UMC Chief Residents Undergo ‘Complex Care for All Ages’ Training” | Posted June 25, 2018
“Chief Residents, Community Providers from Across Southern Arizona Participate in Complex Care Training through UA Center on Aging” | Posted Aug. 18, 2017

Release Date: 
06/25/2024 - 4:00pm
Media Contact: 
David Mogollon | Communications Manager, University of Arizona Department of Medicine