Transitional Year Residency

Ryan Garcia, M.D.

Medical School
University of Arizona College of Medicine – Tucson

Future Advanced Program
Diagnostic Radiology, University of Vermont Medical Center Program

Where are you from?
Tucson, Arizona

Why did you choose NW Transitional Year Residency?
Get to spend one more year in my hometown before I move across the country to the beautiful city of Burlington, Vermont

What are your professional interests within Medicine?
Diagnostic Radiology!!! Hopefully MSK subspecialty at some point

What are your interests or hobbies outside of Medicine?
Playing instruments and recording music, collecting vinyl records, watching movies at The Loft Cinema, finding the next best brewery with the coldest beer, making iced americanos with beans from shops like Cartel Coffee or Presta, audiobooks, drinking good boba tea.

What are you most excited about for life in Tucson?
With each and every year I’m finding something new that I love about Tucson whether it be the food, arts and entertainment, nightlife, etc. So wonder what I’ll find next.

Favorite way to spend a day off?
Pick up coffee, HIIT workout, burritos at Seis Kitchen, listen to a New Order or Talking Heads album, make a new guitar riff and record some music, less than 1.5 hr long movie, beers at Pueblo Vida or Hop Shop, and finally venturing into Downtown Tucson

Top item on your “Bucket list”?
Solo travel to Japan and meeting up with friends on the back half of the trip

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