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Medicine's new generation starts here.

Learn about our exciting graduate medical education programs from the highly respected leaders and program directors instrumental in their development. Watch our video.

GME Welcome Webinar

Join East Valley President & CEO Mark Slyter and GME DIO Dr. Roger Bies in this webinar on our Dignity Health GME program.

Prepare for the future where you lead and work as a team

We saw a need in the field of medicine, and we acted. As health care becomes more personalized, medical and surgical technologies advance and health care innovations expand, we recognize a need for a new type of graduate medical education and residency training. Because our communities deserve the most skilled and innovative care that is available to everyone. Because our communities and patients are also worthy of physicians and care teams who listen and care  just as expertly as they treat and operate. 

Everyone we care for is an individual who deserves humankindness. We train residents who deliver it.

Dignity Health East Valley: A program beyond

The residency program at Dignity Health East Valley is different. We’re designing  it that way. And we’re designing it with future physicians. From our groundbreaking model that empowers our residents to help build truly distinctive curricula… to our state-of-the-art facilities… to innovations in training that is steeped in inclusion and humankindness, we offer something different. 

Four new residency programs, with more on the way

We offer four residency programs; family medicine, general surgery, internal medicine, and emergency medicine now added to begin in 2024.

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Take a virtual tour of our East Valley hospitals.

Chandler Regional Medical Center is a 429-bed, Level 1 Trauma Center which includes a variety of health care services and a newly added Tower D. Mercy Gilbert Medical Center is a 197-bed hospital which opened in 2006 and is expanding with the development of the Women’s and Children’s Pavilion – a joint project between Mercy Gilbert and Phoenix Children’s Hospital.

Enjoy this short video tour showcasing both hospitals where we pride ourselves on teamwork, innovation, faith and compassion.

Four new residency programs, with more on the horizon

More information about Graduate Medical Education in Arizona

GME stands for “graduate medical education,” more commonly referred to as ”residency” and “fellowship” training. The 3 to 9 years of training allows physicians to specialize and practice independently following medical school. Protecting funding for this specialty training means that more residents learn to provide the hands-on care patients need, when they need it.