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Emergency Medicine Residency Program
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Average of 5.5 hours/week offered
Weekly Conference: Thursdays 7:30 AM
to Noon or 7:30 AM to 1:00 PM
Videotaped and available on-line for further viewing.
6:30 am - PGY-1 Ruiz Reading Group - Scheduled readings from Tintinalli designed to guide you through high yield topics in you first year (prior to the in-training). All first year residents, a chief resident, and a faculty member attend weekly.
1) Critical Care (STAB) Conference - Selected critical case management and discussion.
2) Core Content Lecture - Covers emergency medicine core content material.
Given by faculty, third year resident, or invited speaker.
3) Chief Complaint Conference - Interesting cases with good teaching points presented
by third year residents .
4) Fourth Lecture rotates among several topics, including M&M, Research,
Toxicology, High fidelity simulation labs and EKG.
Pediatric Emergency Medicine: The first and fouth Thursdays
Noon to 1PM
Guest speakers on selected topics in pediatric emergency medicine, or
resident case presentation.
High Fidelity Simulation: 3rd Friday of every month. 2 pediatric and 2 adult resuscitation cases in a small group format.
Social Journal Club: Monthly
Residents review current research and critique methodology. Very casual,
held at faculty members’ homes, includes dinner.
Procedure Lab
Eight-hour procedure lab. Taught by emergency medicine faculty in a one-one
faculty to resident ratio. Taken annually by all residents. As a third
year resident you will assist in teaching labs to students and interns.
Research
There are ample opportunities to participate in research projects. There
are always many ongoing faculty projects with which you can assist, or
you can create your own original research. There is a scholarly project
requirement during residency, and research is one of several ways in which
one can satisfy this.
Reading Group
The PGY - 1 residents meet weekly with a faculty to review the weeks core
content material from a standard Emergency Medicine textbook.
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