The last year emphasizes the development of the ability to provide care simultaneously to multiple patients as well as administrative and supervisory capabilities needed to manage an emergency department. The major Emergency Medicine training sites are the Departments of Emergency Medicine at the three participating hospitals, one of which is a City of chicago-designated trauma center. The three departments have a combined total patient population of over 100,000 per year. Each institution is located in a demographically different part of the Chicago metropolitan area. This provides the resident a broad range of experience with patients from a variety of social, ethnic and economic background.
All departments see unselected patients from newborns to the aged.
This diverse experience prepares the resident to work in any emergency department setting. All three hospitals are active teaching hospitals for the University of illinois College of Medicine. Each institution has training at all levels from second year medical students through graduate programs in many specialties. All major specialty backup is in-house 24 hours a day. Emergency Medicine residents have supervisory and teaching responsibilities for medical students as well as residents from other specialties rotating through the emergency departments.