About Us


The University of Arizona College of Medicine – Phoenix is in its fifth year of training medical students in downtown Phoenix. It is an expansion of the UA College of Medicine program begun in 1992, which offered third- and fourth-year medical students the opportunity to complete their training at Phoenix-area hospitals. Housed in the renovated historic Phoenix Union High School buildings, the College of Medicine – Phoenix anchors the Phoenix Biomedical Campus. The College of Medicine – Phoenix is currently admitting 48 students annually, growing to 80 in 2012 and at capacity plans to graduate 120 physicians per year. 

In 2012, the campus will open the Health Sciences Education Building, a six-story, 265,000-square foot structure that facilitates interprofessional training and defines the downtown campus. The campus also is home to the Translational Genomics Research Institute and the Arizona Biomedical Collaborative, a joint research venture of the UA, Arizona State University and Northern Arizona University. Also part of the downtown Phoenix project are the UA Mel and Enid Zuckerman College of Public Health as well as the UA College of Pharmacy.