Emergency Medicine Residency

Curriculum

The Emergency Medicine curriculum seeks to take full advantage of the remarkable resources offered at UI Hospitals and Clinics. Residents will rotate through many services to be exposed to the best clinicians and most effective teachers possible (see Rotation Schedule insert at back). Managing the most critical and complicated patients provides a solid base of knowledge that can be drawn upon in any emergency room setting.

After an introductory month spent learning the principles of emergency medicine (including certifications in ACLS, ATLS, PALS, and EMS base station), first-year rotations include general medicine, anesthesia, pediatrics, trauma, burn, orthopaedics, radiology, and the Emergency Department. The Burn Treatment Center at UI Hospitals and Clinics is nationally known for its innovations in care and dynamic management of patients. In keeping with the goal of training independent emergency department physicians, the radiology rotation calls for the resident to be the on-call radiologist and reading emergency department films alongside supervising staff.

The second year resident experiences St. Luke's Medical Center for the first time, spending two months there in the emergency room and one month on obstetrics/gynecology. Back at UI Hospitals and Clinics, the resident will rotate through the surgical intensive care unit, cardiology, and the pediatric intensive care unit, gynecology ultrasound, as well as four months in the Emergency Treatment Center.

The third year resident can expect a significant increase in responsibility. Not only will they spend two months at St. Luke's emergency room and six months in the UI Hospitals and Clinics emergency room, senior residents will serve as team leaders on the trauma service.

Rotation Schedule