Arizona

Chairman: William Grana
PD: John Ruth
Location: Tuscon, AZ
Spots: 3

Reputation: Middle of the road university program in good location.

Pros: Small program with lots of OR time. Nice medical center. Program strength is in Sports. Decent trauma experience. Improving with additions of Spine and Trauma attendings and research faculty. Foot & Ankle and Tumor covered. Female-friendly program with several female residents. Research requirement of two papers per resident. Tuscon is a nice affordable Arizona college town.

Cons: Limited faculty size with only 8 full time attendings. Single attending in most specialties.

Final Word: Improving middle tier university program in Southern Arizona.

Website: http://www.bones.arizona.edu/edu_orp.html

Rotation Information: Favors rotators.

Interview Date: 2007 - 12/1 & 12/8

If you are a student, resident, attending or have recently rotated, please feel free to post any information, additions, changes, or comments.

Comments

[Pat Henderson]

I am a U of A resident who is about to graduate. This is a great program with excellent operative experience. Although the number of full-time faculty is relatively small, we work with a number of good community attendings. ALL subspecialties are covered, including Foot & Ankle (4th year) and Tumor (5th year).