Our residents experience 36 months of intense academic, didactic, clinical and administrative training. We provide our residents every opportunity to obtain a well-rounded educational experience with an emphasis on clinical skills taught under the supervision of board certified emergency physicians.
Each emergency medicine month will include shifts divided between our adult and children’s sites to provide a longitudinal learning experience.
Resident responsibility in the emergency department is graduated. Interns are responsible for seeing patients and learning patient management skills. Their patients are presented to upper-level residents and staff. Under the supervision of more-senior residents and staff, residents are expected to learn to recognize and begin to stabilize life-threatening illnesses.
Second-year residents see the majority of the patients in the department. They manage multiple patients, including the critically ill. In the second half of the year, second-year residents begin to supervise interns and medical students.
In the third year, residents continue to see multiple patients. In addition, they take on supervisory responsibilities. The third-year residents supervise more junior residents and students and provide EMS online medical control. With the assistance of the attending staff, the third-year resident is responsible for the overall management of the department. All patients are discussed with and seen by the attending physician prior to their disposition.
