Mountain Vista Medical Center, Family Medicine Residency
We are committed to the well-being of our patients and superior training of young physicians.
About Mountain Vista Medical Center
The Mountain Vista Family Medicine Residency is a suburban, community hospital-based program. Our mission is to train learners from diverse backgrounds into world-class physicians who will provide evidence-based, high-quality care, be passionate about caring for patients and partnering with them on their health, and be lifelong learners. We hold firm to the idea that each patient comprises mind, body, and spirit; the three are interrelated to compose a person’s health.
While our program focuses on preparing for life in an outpatient setting, there are plenty of opportunities to train in the inpatient realm. We provide a supportive learning environment and faculty who are genuinely interested in helping you grow in your personal and professional life.
Welcome from Program Leadership
We are happy you have expressed an interest in our internal medicine program. Here at Mountain Vista Medical Center, you will be exposed to a wide range of patients' pathologies, managed using sound clinical judgment and evidence-based medicine while supervised by dedicated and experienced IM attendings.
Program Director
“Growing up in the coastal state of Kerala, India, I have a deep admiration for nature and all that we can learn from it. We were a routine middle class family of four, and I was one of the few in the area who had the blessing to go to medical school, which had been my dream ever since I cut open that first frog in school. After competing medical school at St. John’s Medical College, Bangalore, I did work in multiple ICU’s and did short spells of work in remote villages in India, before pursuing residency in Internal Medicine at the Louisiana State University Health Sciences Center at Shreveport. Having the opportunity to train under some excellent teachers of medicine, I believe teaching and learning can be achieved with a keen sense of curiosity and an attitude to challenge and change ourselves when the need arises, with the right guidance. Internal medicine has a constantly evolving nature, and this inherently requires flexibility and adaptability from the learner and practitioner. This is probably what attracted me to it the most, and still excites me. I hope to see the same in every aspiring pupil of any subject. Outside of medicine, I am an avid soccer fan, and still try to play in some recreational games when time allows. I’m also into mountain/cross country biking, basketball, hiking and fitness in general. I am usually accompanied by my wife, my little baby girl or my dachshund in some of these little adventures.”
Nishanth Nirmala, M.B.B.S.
Interim Program Director
Mission
The Mountain Vista Family Medicine Residency Program strives to foster an educational environment conducive to training learners from diverse backgrounds and developing them into independent, excellent family physicians highly skilled in providing comprehensive, patient-centered care. Our residents are trained specifically to meet the community's needs in the east valley of the Phoenix metro area.
Aims
- Provide Excellent Family Medicine Teaching, Leading to Graduates Who are World Class Physicians
- Integrate Technology and Evidence-Based Medicine into All Aspects of the Curriculum
- Provide High-Quality, Compassionate Patient Care for Our Local Population
- Encourage and Model an Environment of Active Inquiry to Produce Physicians Who Can Adapt to an Ever-Changing Medical Landscape
- Ensure That Core Competencies Are Cornerstones of Teaching Strategies