Emergency Medicine

General Program description

We designed our four-year program with the purpose of teaching not only the clinical aspects of Emergency care but to prepare our residents for careers as leaders in the future of Emergency Medicine. We place a strong emphasis on developing our residents in areas of expertise including Administration, Research, and Education. We do this with a combination of a diversity of experiences and graduated responsibility while also focusing on developing the non-clinical side of the residents’ career.

• First, our modular curriculum is offered over 2 years, allowing for a greater variety of important topics to be taught in a focused manner while providing the opportunity for each resident to experience the entire educational curriculum twice.
• Second, we offer three months of dedicated elective time, which provides the resident with the time and opportunity to discover whatever niche within our field they would like to pursue for their career.
• Third, our residents will begin supervising medical students and their junior residents in their third year. By the time they graduate, our residents will acquire a level of comfort in difficult clinical situations few other residencies can match.
• Fourth, we offer several rotations in our program emphasizing areas of Emergency Medicine that other programs may not. (See the "Special Rotations" section). We also deliberately limit rotations in inpatients areas where service requirements would be out of proportion to the educational value for EM residents. Instead, we emphasize those rotations that teach the skills needed for the practice of Emergency Medicine.