Emergency Medicine

RESIDENCY PROGRAM

Conferences

The Department of Emergency Medicine holds 5 hours of conference for the residents each week. Residents are expected to attend all conferences while on emergency medicine rotations. Residents on duty in the emergency department during scheduled conference time will be excused from duty to attend conferences. When residents are rotating on other services they are expected to attend conference whenever possible as dictated by the clinical needs of the service. Several rotations on other services have protected time for the resident to attend all 5 hours of conference. A brief description of each conference is included below. All scheduled conferences are 1 hour in duration.

Reading Club
The first hour of conference begins with a review of the month's assigned reading.

Core Content
Lectures each week given by residents and staff covering the published core content in emergency medicine and the assigned reading in either Tintinalli or Rosen's Emergency Medicine texts.

Grand Rounds
Lectures on topics of interest to emergency medicine given by faculty, visiting professors, other specialty faculty and emergency department residents.

Morbidity and Mortality
A monthly critical review of emergency medicine case management.

QA/Risk Management
A monthly discussion of ongoing ED QA monitors and case presentations with risk management implications.

Radiology Conference
A monthly review of x-rays, CT, and ultrasound with diagnostic significance.

EKG Conference
A monthly conference designed to practice and improve EKG reading skills.

Patient Follow-Up Conference
Monthly conference which allows residents to present interesting cases seen in the ED with inpatient, outpatient, surgical, or autopsy follow-up.

Current Issues in Emergency Medicine
A bimonthly conference that allows guest speakers in emergency medicine to address the non-clinical issues facing our specialty today such as physician wellness and longevity, EMTALA, ED overcrowding, contract negotiations, malpractice insurance, and risk management to name a few.

Journal Club
A monthly review and critique of the emergency medicine literature and research methodology in order to allow residents to critically review the literature and discussions of educational methodology in order to prepare the residents to be better teachers and researchers.

Skills Workshop
Various workshops in the last year have included an Ultrasound update, Vascular Access lab, Suture Lab, and Airway Skills workshop (see above picture). An annual cadaver lab has been instituted in 2007 to teach rarely performed procedures such as pericardiocentesis, thoracotomy, cricothyroidotomy, and IO lines.