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Jane M Davis
- Assistant Clinical Professor, Family and Community Medicine - (Clinical Series Track)
- (520) 694-3305
- Alvernon Admin Offices, Rm. 310
- Tucson, AZ 85724
- janed@arizona.edu
Biography
I, Jane M. Davis, was born in Las Cruces, New Mexico. I graduated from Las Cruces High School in the top 10 of my class. I then went on to the University of Arizona to pursue a degree in Molecular and Cellular Biology while simultaneously attaining a degree in French. It was in undergraduate school and high school where I found my love for rural communities and I found my path in medicine.
After three years of undergraduate school at the University of Arizona, I felt as if I had lost my direction and my fire. It was in Montana, in the summer of 2003, as I would walk home from volunteering at the Clark Fork Valley Hospital Clinic contemplating the day I had spent there, that I realized the dim and lost soul I had arrived as in Montana was now bright. I knew then the importance of the rural physician and felt becoming a rural family physician was what I needed to do. I applied and was accepted into the University of Arizona College of Medicine shortly thereafter.
In medical school, I participated in the Rural Health Professions Program and this further cultivated my interest in one day becoming a rural family physician. I believe the rural medical microcosm provides one of the most interesting and unique facets of medicine. It requires the physician to take care of a board spectrum of patients and pathologies.
I love the practice of family medicine. I love the diversity of the field. I enjoy the spectrum of delivering a new baby and in the same day alleviating the pain of the dying hospice patient; the necessity and importance of communicating sex education to an adolescent and in the next visit discussing a differential for chest pain; calming the anxious 60 year old.
I love how important it is as a family physician to be an advocate and translator for patients in the sometimes-confusing language of medicine; the importance of finding clinical answers WITH, not just for, your patients.
I love the complexity of the problems and the importance of continuity. I enjoy the ability of family physician to follow patients over years and through generations of a family. This continuity allows for a better ability to tease out the more complex and delicate components of a diagnosis.
In medical school, I was elated when I found out that I had matched at my first choice residency program at the Family Medicine Residency of Idaho’s Caldwell Rural Training Track. I am so grateful to the program for providing me with the strong procedural training and a diversity of experiences a rural doctor needs to experience to feel comfortable practicing as a new physician
After graduating from residency, I took my first job with North Country Health Care in Show Low, Arizona. This was small rural clinic comprised of myself, a PA and an NP. I took on the role of clinical lead for our Show Low clinic, while trying to balance doing full spectrum family medicine, initially with obstetrics. After two challenging and rewarding years at this site, I decided that the commute to see my significant other in Tucson was just too far. I decided I must try to find a job in the Tucson community, to be closer with family.
This was a tough choice as my heart lies with underserved and rural communities, but I have been lucky to come full circle back to the place I started at the University of Arizona. I have found a love for geriatric medicine with my position as an out patient family medicine physician at the Banner Green Valley Clinic and I find great joy in teaching one day a week with the University of Arizona Family Medicine Residency. I now have two children that my husband and I spend all our time out side of work adoring and being active with. I find that I love my Tucson, Marana and Green Valley communities and their underserved and rural aspects continue to push my desire to serve and fight for our patients to receive outstanding care. It is with thanks and hope that I look forward to a long career in medicine; serving the people of this community, my home and my family.
Degrees
- M.D. Medicine- MD/MPH
- University of Arizona, Tucson, Arizona, United States
Work Experience
- Banner University Medical Group (2019 - Ongoing)
- Northwest Allied Physicians (2015 - 2019)
- North Country Health Care (2012 - 2015)
Awards
- Health Hero Award
- Banner University Medical Group, Spring 2024
Licensure & Certification
- Board Certified Family Medicine, American Board of Family Medicine (2013)
Interests
Teaching
Rural Family MedicineGeriatrics
Courses
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Scholarly Contributions
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