Join us at UNM to continue your journey in becoming an excellently trained clinician in Family Medicine.
Whether your passion is primary care or subspecialty training, our mission is to provide you with the foundation necessary to meet your professional goals. We want to excel as a leader in Family Medicine.
As a resident, you'll experience a wide-ranging curriculum in the clinic, hospital, and rural and urban New Mexico communities.
Through our clinical training, seminars, conferences, your residency experience has been designed to support the development of a well-rounded, self-motivated, confident and extremely competent family physician.
We endeavor to create tailored schedules that provide sufficient structure, with enough flexibility to spend time gaining skills in your areas of interest—from community-based and under-served medicine, to scholarship, international experiences and public health advocacy.
Our institution values equity, as do we, and as an institution we will continue having only virtual interviews for the time. We will have some dates later in the recruitment season for people to visit if they would like to. These visits will not affect people's ranking as our rank list will be locked prior to the in-person visits to make clear that people who are able to come will not be given preferential access or treatment in terms of their ranking for our program.
Our goal is to find residents who have similar interests to us, so that we can provide the education that people are really looking for, it is important to choose a program that will be a good fit for you and your professional goals.
Our residency is challenging; our clinical services are intense in terms of number of patients and complexity of patients, our institution depends on residents for service, and we focus on our communities, many of which have been historically and currently minoritized which increases the complexity of care even more. And because of that, our graduates leave feeling fully prepared for any challenge and any clinical setting that they feel called to.
UNM Family Medicine offers excellent training in hospitalist medicine, complex Maternal and Child Health, addiction medicine, family planning (including abortion as we are a RHEDI site), gender affirming care, native health and outpatient medicine for people of all ages.
We are dedicated to recruitment and retention of people who have historically been excluded from medicine and our department have native attendings and residents for mentorship, our department houses the Center for Native American Health, we are the admitting team for Northern Navajo medical center and have clinical and community- oriented opportunities on Native Health.
People who are happiest here share our interests, welcome the challenge of working with complex and under-served patients, and are people who can help create a residency group that reflects our communities and who have demonstrated "distance travelled" on their way to medicine.
Our department has expert and engaged faculty who focus on full-spectrum care, care of under-resourced and structurally minoritized communities in all the most essential areas of Family Medicine- outpatient, inpatient and maternal child health, family planning, sports medicine, care for pregnant people, addiction care, and gender affirming care.
These are all clinics that are part of our department and your continuity clinics and you will be scheduled into them, you will work with them in other rotations and then they are available for your electives as well.
In addition to the above clinical focus areas, UNM Department of Family Medicine runs a fellowship for Addiction medicine, Sports Medicine and Maternal Child Health. Our graduates have access to other UNM Fellowships as well - Sleep Medicine, Geriatrics and Palliative Care.
UNM is an institution of collaboration and of doing. People from every department are here to further the mission of caring for the people of New Mexico in a way that is inclusive, equitable and actively addresses issues of structural determinants of health (beyond simply recognizing them). Our department has been around for more than 50 years and for that entire time people who work here are excited to do hard and smart work to give the highest quality patient care to anyone who needs it. Our residency is the same. We attract people who are great problem solvers, passionate, and who want to make a difference in their world and the world at large.
Our residents support each other through the ups and downs of residency. They vacation together, they go to each other’s weddings, they advocate for each other and they have each other’s backs.
UNM is a large teaching institution with more than 70 residencies and fellowships. UNM is a typical academic center in that way and in that the services depend on residents for service. Specialists across the institution are excited to teach and work with our family medicine residents.
49.7 hours on average
We put a lot of time and energy into being as flexible as possible while also making sure that folks meet their requirements for residency. Residency can be tough, and we recognize that even in the midst of residents working really hard, life happens. We like to try our hardest to make sure that our residents are supported when life happens- both the beautiful and the sad things of life. And we follow the Union-GME contract closely which is very supportive of residents.
Applications are only accepted through ERAS. Interview spots fill quickly; we encourage applying as early as possible. Interviews will be offered on most Tuesdays and Fridays from October to January.
All applicants must:
*For international applicants only: We welcome applications from international medical graduates. To apply, applicants must meet the following requirements:
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