PGY-1

  • Emergency Medicine - 29 weeks

  • Medical Intensive Care Unit - 4 weeks

  • Internal Medicine - 4 weeks

  • Trauma Surgery - 4 weeks

  • Orthopedic surgery - 2 weeks

  • Anesthesia - 2 weeks

  • Obstetrics - 2 weeks

  • Ophthalmology - 1 week

Our first years learn, across the different services, pivotal information that is required for subsequent years. Our residents are not restricted in procedures in the Emergency Department, and have seen and done a variety of procedures from central lines and arterial lines to transvenous pacers and burr holes. On shift, our residents are strongly encouraged to hone their ultrasound skills.

PGY-2

  • Emergency Medicine - 28 weeks

  • Pediatric EM (LLUMC) - 4 weeks

  • Medical Intensive Care Unit - 4 weeks

  • Pediatric Intensive Care Unit - 4 weeks

  • Ultrasound - 2 weeks

  • Trauma Surgery - 2 weeks

  • EMS - 2 weeks

  • Research - 2 weeks

Our second years are expected to operate as seniors. They will be placed in charge of the department to understand ED workflow and how to delegate tasks. They are encouraged to be a part of different interdepartmental committees such as Trauma, Stroke, and Sepsis. During the Ultrasound Rotation, residents will learn more advanced skills to help precisely manage patients. On other services, our residents are also expected to operate as seniors, taking charge of the service and implementing what they have learned previously.

PGY-3

  • Emergency Medicine - 32 weeks

  • Medical Intensive Care Unit - 2 weeks

  • Pediatric Intensive Care Unit - 2 weeks

  • Community EM (Redlands) - 8 weeks

  • Elective - 8 weeks (may move all or partial to PGY-2 upon request)

Our third years are expected to function similarly to attendings. They will hone the skills they have gained and focus on how they want to practice as attendings. There will also be two months at a community emergency department to obtain exposure in a different setting.

Didactics

  • Our didactics are from 7a-11a every Thursday (159 hours per academic year of Synchronous Didactic Learning covering 16-system based blocks)

  • 44 hours per academic year of Case-Based Learning (CBL)

  • 44 hours per academic year of protected asynchronous learning modulation (Rosh Review/Intendent study)

  • Quarterly Journal Clubs, Procedural Workshops, and Simulation Labs between our high fidelity simulation center on campus and Western University, our local medical school's simulation center

  • 12 weeks per academic year of interactive Ultrasound didactics led by our Ultrasound fellowship program director and fellows

  • 4 weeks per academic year of Wilderness Medicine didactics led by our Wilderness fellowship program director and fellow

  • 4 weeks per academic year of Combined Interdisciplinary Trauma didactics led by our Emergency Medicine leadership, Trauma Surgery leadership, and corresponding specialty services

  • Annual Cadaver and Anatomy Procedural Lab led by our Emergency medicine faculty aimed at practicing some of EM’s most rare procedures at our local medical school

  • 4 annual major National Emergency Medicine Conferences sponsored by the program, open to EM resident leadership and residents alike

Vacations & Shift Numbers

  • Vacation will be taken throughout the year as the resident schedules it. There is not a predetermined time the resident can take vacation and is not limited to any type of rotation.

  • Each emergency medicine rotation consists of 18 shifts as PGY-1 (14 with vacation), and 17 shifts as PGY-2 (13 with vacation, 9 for a split month) and 16 shifts as PGY-3 (12 with vacation and 8 for a split month). Each shift is 10 hours long, and residents are strongly encouraged to leave on time.

  • Residents are provided with ROSH review, EMRA, and HIPPO-em subscriptions.

Salary & Benefits

  • Benefits

    Health and Dental insurance

    County Employee retirement

    4 weeks of vacation per year

  • Salary

    PGY-1: $70,962.00

    PGY-2: $73,311.00

    PGY-3: $76,193.00

    PGY-4: $79,200.00

  • Extra

    Educational Stipend: $1,000

    Resident work room in the basement

    Emergency Medicine Call Room