Residents also learn about quality assurance and improvement, JCAH requirements, and billing. Virtually every type of elective is offered at our institution, including Sports Medicine, Hyperbaric Medicine, Occupational Medicine, Plastic Surgery, Dermatology, etc. The only elective not available at our institution is Toxicology. Emergency Medicine residents are permitted to complete rotations at other institutions for one month during the PGY-III year if they are in good academic standing. All residents work 23 shifts per month in the ED on Emergency Medicine rotations.
All shifts are eight hours in length.
Residents are supervised on a 24-hour basis by attending Emergency Medicine faculty. One of the many advantages of our residency program includes 24 hour dictation in all of our Emergency Departments. Additional benefits of ED chart dictation include improved quality of documentation and decreased medicolegal risks. Another major advantage of our program is the exposure to pediatric patients in the Emergency Department. In addition to your dedicated Pediatric Emergency Medicine rotations, you will see pediatric patients during all of your regular Emergency Medicine rotations.