Location Report
THE UNIVERSITY OF NEW MEXICO SCHOOL OF MEDICINE–TRAINED MDS
2021
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The Oce of Program Evaluation, Education and Research at the University of New Mexico (UNM) School of
Medicine produces the Location Report to provide a statistical overview of current practice location for UNM-
trained MDs practicing in New Mexico in the past year, 2020.
MDs Practicing in New Mexico
• There were 1,996 UNM-trained MDs practicing in New Mexico in 2020 (Table 1A)
• Approximately 41% of all MDs licensed in New Mexico trained at UNM (1,996/4,889, Figure 2)
• UNM-trained MDs are practicing in 29 of New Mexico’s 33 counties (Figure 6)
MDs Trained at UNM School of Medicine
• 25% of MDs trained at UNM are practicing in New Mexico (1,996/7,831, Table 1A and Figure 1A)
• 22% of MDs who graduated from UNM’s medical school and completed their residency out-of-state are
practicing in New Mexico (421/1,887, Table 1A and Figure 1A)
• 20% of MDs who completed only their residency at UNM are practicing in New Mexico (944/4,773, Table 1A
and Figure 1A)
• 54% of MDs who completed both medical school and their residency at UNM are practicing in New Mexico
(631/1,171, Table 1A and Figure 1A)
MDs Trained at UNM School of Medicine in the BA/MD Degree Program
• 51% of MDs who graduated from the UNM BA/MD program are practicing in New Mexico (30/59, Table 1B and
Figure 1B)
• 33% of MDs who graduated from the UNM BA/MD program and completed their residency out-of-state are
practicing in New Mexico (11/33, Table 1B and Figure 1B)
• 73% of MDs who graduated from the UNM BA/MD program and completed their residency at UNM are
practicing in New Mexico (19/26, Table 1B and Figure 1B)
UNM-Trained MDs in Primary Care Specialties
• 44% of all UNM-trained MDs practicing in New Mexico are in the primary care specialties of Family Medicine,
Internal Medicine, Obstetrics & Gynecology, and/or Pediatrics (883/1,996, Table 3 and Figure 5)
• 83% of UNM-trained MDs practicing in New Mexico who graduated from the UNM BA/MD program are in the
primary care specialties of Family Medicine, Internal Medicine, Obstetrics & Gynecology, or Pediatrics (25/30,
Figure 4)
Quick Facts
A Note on Terminology...
This report refers to all MDs who graduated from the UNM School of Medicine and/or completed all or part
of a residency or fellowship at UNM as UNM-trained MDs. This report only includes physicians that hold a
Doctor of Medicine (MD) degree. Graduates with a Doctor of Osteopathic (DO) medicine degree are not
included in this report. UNM-trained MDs fall into three mutually exclusive categories:
• MD degree from UNM, Medical Residency out-of-state (MD Only)
• Medical Residency or Fellowship at UNM, MD degree out-of-state (Medical Residency Only)
• Both MD degree and Medical Residency or Fellowship at UNM (MD and Medical Residency)
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TABLE 1A: Retention of UNM-Trained MDs
Medical
Residency Only
MD Only* MD and Medical
Residency
Overall
Graduates 4,773 1,887 1,171 7,831
Graduates practicing in NM 944 421 631 1,996
Percent of graduates practicing
in NM
19.8% 22.3% 53.9% 25.5%
FIGURE1A
 Percent of All Graduates
 Practicing in New Mexico
*The Office of Program Evaluation, Education and Research excludes 2018+ UNM medical school graduates from the total number of MD graduates as they are
presumed in residency. However, the total number does not necessarily exclude graduates that continue training beyond three years of residency.
FIGURE1B
 Percent of BA/MD Graduates
 Practicing in New Mexico
TABLE 1B: Retention of UNM-Trained MDs (BA/MD only)
BA/MD
MD Only*
BA/MD and Medical
Residency
BA/MD
Overall
BA/MD graduates 33 26 59
BA/MD graduates practicing in NM 11 19 30
Percent of BA/MD graduates practicing in NM 33.3% 73.1% 50.8%
retention
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FIGURE3
FIGURE2
MDs over time level of training
Total MDs and UNM-Trained MDs Practicing in New Mexico (2000-2020)
UNM-Trained MDs Practicing by Training in New Mexico (2000-2020)
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FIGURE4
Thirty of the 59 graduates from the BA/MD program
are practicing in New Mexico across 8 dierent
counties in New Mexico (Figure 6).
Nineteen of these 30 (63%) completed residency at
UNM. See Table 1B. Twenty-five of the 30 (83%) chose a
primary care specialty. See Figure 4.
As of 2020, the program has 125 MD graduates with 66
of these MDs currently in residency training.
The first BA/MD medical school graduates received
their MD degrees from the School of Medicine in 2013.
BA/MD program graduates earned a baccalaureate
degree through the College of Arts & Sciences and
their MD degree at the School of Medicine.
FIGURE5
*Improved accuracy of Internal Medicine subspecialties resulted in an apparent decrease of those practicing primary care in 2020.
BA/MDprimary care
UNM-Trained MDs Practicing Primary Care in New Mexico (2000-2020)*
BA/MD Graduates Practicing by Specialty in New Mexico (2020)
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*The (#) indicates BA/MD graduates practicing in
that county.
FIGURE6UNM-Trained MDs Practicing by County in New Mexico (2020)*
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TABLE2A
UNM-Trained MDs by Training
Total Number
of MDs*
UNM-Trained
MDs
Medical
Residency Only
MD Only
MD and Medical
Residency
ALL OF NEW MEXICO 4,889 1,996 944 421 631
Northwest Region 278 98 39 31 28
Cibola 20 5 1 3 1
McKinley 89 30 19 5 6
San Juan 169 63 19 23 21
Northeast Region
760 213 96 56 61
Colfax
14 6 3 2 1
Guadalupe
4 4 - 1 3
Harding
- - - - -
Los Alamos
53 17 9 3 5
Mora
1 1 1 - -
Rio Arriba
46 22 2 8 12
San Miguel
30 9 2 4 3
Santa Fe
542 132 69 30 33
Taos
67 21 10 7 4
Union
3 1 - 1 -
Metro
3,015 1,509 753 267 489
Bernalillo
2,775 1,423 72 0 240 463
Sandoval
211 67 29 19 19
Torrance
4 3 1 1 1
Valencia
25 16 3 7 6
Southeast Region
291 56 18 18 20
Chaves
90 25 12 4 9
Curry
62 6 - 4 2
De Baca
1 1 - - 1
Eddy
58 6 1 2 3
Lea
47 5 4 - 1
Lincoln
18 8 - 6 2
Quay
4 2 - 2 -
Roosevelt
11 3 1 - 2
Southwest Region
545 120 38 49 33
Catron
3 - - - -
Doña Ana
376 84 27 34 23
Grant
52 16 5 5 6
Hidalgo
2 - - - -
Luna
17 2 1 1 -
Otero
71 11 2 7 2
Sierra
8 - - - -
Socorro
16 7 3 2 2
*New Mexico Medical Board 2020 Official List
UNM-Trained MDs Practicing by County and Public Health Region in New Mexico (2020)
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Population**
Total MDs per
10,000
Population
UNM-Trained
MDs per 10,000
Population
Percent of
Total MDs who are
UNM-Trained
ALL OF NEW MEXICO 2,106,319 23.2 9.5 41%
Northwest Region 220,490 12.6 4.4 35%
Cibola
26,354 7.6 1.9 25%
McKinley
70,824 12.6 4.2 34%
San Juan
123,312 13.7 5.1 37%
Northeast Region
295,010 25.8 7.2 28%
Colfax
11,927 11.7 5.0 43%
Guadalupe
4,275 9.4 9.4 100%
Harding
638 - - -
Los Alamos
19,462 27.2 8.7 32%
Mora
4,478 2.2 2.2 100%
Rio Arriba
38,521 11.9 5.7 48%
San Miguel
27,144 11.1 3.3 30%
Santa Fe
151,946 35.7 8.7 24%
Taos
32,593 20.6 6.4 31%
Union
4,026 7.5 2.5 33%
Metro
923,630 32.6 16.3 50%
Bernalillo
681,666 40.7 20.9 51%
Sandoval
148,904 14.2 4.5 32%
Torrance
15,486 2.6 1.9 75%
Valencia
77,574 3.2 2.1 64%
Southeast Region
291,911 10.0 1.9 19%
Chaves
64,711 13.9 3.9 28%
Curry
48,793 12.7 1.2 10%
De Baca
1,673 6.0 6.0 100%
Eddy
58,418 9.9 1.0 10%
Lea
71,830 6.5 0.7 11%
Lincoln
19,939 9.0 4.0 44%
Quay
8,197 4.9 2.4 50%
Roosevelt
18,350 6.0 1.6 27%
Southwest Region
375,278 14.5 3.2 22%
Catron
3,623 8.3 - -
Doña Ana
221,262 1 7.0 3.8 22%
Grant
27,007 19.3 5.9 31%
Hidalgo
4,106 4.9 - -
Luna
23,905 7.1 0.8 12%
Otero
67,967 10.4 1.6 15%
Sierra
10,867 7. 4 - -
Socorro
16,541 9.7 4.2 44%
*Number of doctors divided by the population of the county multiplied by 10,000; **2020 U.S. Census Bureau estimates
TABLE2B
UNM-Trained MDs Practicing by County and Public Health Region per 10,000 Population
(2020) in New Mexico*
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Family
Medicine
Internal
Medicine
Obstetrics/
Gynecology
Pediatrics Total
ALL OF NEW MEXICO 403 244 85 151 883*
Northwest Region 22 10 5 12 49
Cibola
4 - - - 4
McKinley
8 5 3 4 20
San Juan
10 5 2 8 25
Northeast Region
80 17 12 8 117
Colfax
2 - 1 - 3
Guadalupe
3 - - - 3
Harding
- - - - -
Los Alamos
5 3 1 - 9
Mora
- - - - -
Rio Arriba
14 1 2 1 18
San Miguel
4 1 - - 5
Santa Fe
42 9 8 7 66
Taos
10 3 - - 13
Union
- - - - -
Metro
236 194 60 119 607*
Bernalillo
209 179 59 106 551*
Sandoval
15 11 1 11 38
Torrance
2 1 - - 3
Valencia
10 3 - 2 15
Southeast Region
25 6 2 5 38
Chaves
11 1 - 4 16
Curry
1 1 - - 2
De Baca
1 - - - 1
Eddy
2 1 - 1 4
Lea
4 - - - 4
Lincoln
3 2 2 - 7
Quay
1 - - - 1
Roosevelt
2 1 - - 3
Southwest Region
40 17 6 7 68*
Catron
- - - - -
Doña Ana
24 13 4 3 42*
Grant
4 2 1 3 10
Hidalgo
- - - - -
Luna
1 - 1 - 2
Otero
6 1 - - 7
Sierra
- - - - -
Socorro
5 1 - 1 7
TABLE3
*When MDs work in multiple primary care specialties, they are counted a single time in the Total column.
UNM-Trained MDs Practicing in Primary Care Specialties by County and Public Health Region in
New Mexico (2020)
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TABLE4
Anesthesiology General Surgery
Emergency
Medicine
Psychiatry
ALL OF NEW MEXICO 95 53 166 160
Northwest Region 1 7 17 4
Cibola
- 1 - -
McKinley
- 2 2 1
San Juan
1 4 15 3
Northeast Region
6 6 14 22
Colfax
- 1 2 1
Guadalupe
1 - - -
Harding
- - - -
Los Alamos
1 - 1 4
Mora
- - - -
Rio Arriba
- - 3 -
San Miguel
- - - 2
Santa Fe
4 5 5 14
Taos
- - 2 1
Union
- - 1 -
Metro
80 32 127 127
Bernalillo
74 30 125 126
Sandoval
5 2 2 1
Torrance
- - - -
Valencia
1 - - -
Southeast Region
1 5 2 3
Chaves
1 1 - 1
Curry
- 3 - 1
De Baca
- - - -
Eddy
- 1 1 -
Lea
- - 1 -
Lincoln
- - - -
Quay
- - - 1
Roosevelt
- - - -
Southwest Region
7 3 6 4
Catron
- - - -
Doña Ana
6 2 2 3
Grant
- - 1 1
Hidalgo
- - - -
Luna
- - - -
Otero
1 1 2 -
Sierra
- - - -
Socorro
- - 1 -
UNM-Trained MDs Practicing in Selected Specialties by County and Public Health Region in
New Mexico (2020)
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With this report, the Oce of Program Evaluation, Education and Research (PEAR) at the University of New Mexico
(UNM) School of Medicine strives to provide the best available information about UNM-trained MDs who practiced
in New Mexico in 2020.
Each Individual included in the Location Report:
• Has a Doctor of Medicine degree (MD)
• Is a UNM School of Medicine (SOM) graduate and/or completed all or part of Graduate Medical Education at UNM
• Had an active Medical Doctor license from the New Mexico Medical Board in 2020
• Had a New Mexico practice location in 2020
PEAR includes all practicing UNM School of Medicine MD recipients from 1968 through 2017 and all MDs who
completed all or part of a medical residency or fellowship at UNM Hospital (formerly Bernalillo County Indian
Hospital) from 1955 through 2020 in this report. We present additional information for graduates of UNM’s
Combined BA/MD program. This state-sponsored partnership program between the UNM College of Arts &
Sciences and the UNM School of Medicine is designed to help address the state’s physician shortage by training
students committed to serving New Mexico communities.
The UNM SOM’s Oce of Medical Student Aairs and the Oce of Graduate Medical Education provided the
lists of UNM SOM MD recipients (since 1968) and former residents and fellows (since 1955), respectively. After we
obtained these lists, we matched UNM graduates to active MDs with a New Mexico medical license. We obtain
active MD information annually from the New Mexico Medical Board.
PEAR then identified practice locations and specialties for graduates practicing in New Mexico using public
information available from the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services National Plan and Provider Enumeration
System (NPPES) National Provider Index (NPI) registry, the American Board of Medical Specialties (ABMS), state
medical boards, and additional online resources.
We would like to thank the following employees for their work on this report: Jamie Riera (Data Manager, Lead
Author and Designer); Nancy Shane, PhD (Program Evaluator); and Rebecca Hartley, PhD (Executive Director).
Approach & Methods
T
hank you to the following sources for county
images used in this report: the UNM digital asset
library, the National Park Service website; the online
image sharing application Flikr, specifically, Sue
Rath, Patrick Alexander, Oasis State Park, BLM New
Mexico, Bureau of Reclamation, Greg Gjerdingen,
Lars Plougmann, William Grieb, Dad of T&S, Ronnie
Pitman, Gary Cascio, USDA Forest Service Photo by
Javonne Goodman, Matthew Dillan, Woody Hibbard,
Sporst, and the US Dept of Agriculture; and the online
Unsplash community, specifically Jimmy Conover, Claud
Richmond, Bruce Warrington, jo Van de Kerkhove, Pete
Alexopoulos, and Wolfgang Frick.
Questions?
If you have questions about this report,
please contact:
The Office of Program Evaluation, Education
and Research (PEAR)
MSC08 4550
1 University of New Mexico
Albuquerque, NM 87131-0001
Email: [email protected]
Phone: 505-272-8069
Office of the Dean
MSC 08 4720
1 University of New Mexico
Albuquerque, NM
87131-0001
UNM School of Medicine
UNM School of Medicine graduated its first class of MDs in 1968. Before the UNM School of
Medicine was created, there were residencies at the former Bernalillo County Indian Hospital
(currently University of New Mexico Hospital), with the first residents graduating in 1955.
On average, there are 400 medical students and 590 medical residents
and fellows in training at the UNM School of Medicine.
Each year, approximately 100 medical students graduate and 180 medical residents
and fellows complete their training at the UNM School of Medicine.