The University of New Mexico Primary Care Track (PCT) is a longitudinal experience and curriculum designed by residents and for residents interested in careers in primary care. Through a unique, self-tailored schedule, the track provides residents with exposures in primary care, chronic disease management, outpatient procedures, and career advice and mentorship from primary care faculty.
The track is a two-year curriculum spanning second and third years of Internal Medicine residency. Residents can apply for the track in January of the first or second year.
UNM PCT graduates have gone onto a wide range of positions after residency including academic and communicity medicine, rural medicine, outpatient-focused medical subspecialties, and leadership positions at health systems across the country.
Read more about the origins of the track here:
Brislen H, A Dunn, A Parada, and P Rendon. Addressing the primary care shortage on a shoestring: A successful track in an internal medicine residency. Academic Medicine 2016; 91: 224-228.
The track curriculum is composed of three discrete blocks of 3 week rotations in PCT.
Each block is scheduled as follows:
Other features of PCT:
You will receive access to a list of contacts for different outpatient clinics at VA and UNM. These are rotations that residents have rotated through in the past during the PCT months:
Assistant Professor
Block Chair, Clinical Reasoning 3, UNM School of Medicine
Primary Care Track Director, Internal Medicine Residency Program
Department of Internal Medicine
Veteran Affairs Primary Care
Clinical Educator Track Assistant Professor
Associate Program Director, Internal Medicine Residency Program
Department of Internal Mediine
Veterans Affair Medical Center
Office of Education
Department of Internal Medicine
MSC 10-5550
1 University of New Mexico
Albuquerque, NM 87131
Phone: 505-272-6331
Email: DOIM-Residency-Staff@salud.unm.edu
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