Emergency Medicine

RESIDENCY PROGRAM

Program Overview

The University of Kentucky offers a 3-year emergency medicine residency program (PGY-1-2-3) with eight positions in each year. The clinical experience takes place at the University of Kentucky Hospital for all rotations except for one month of community based emergency medicine in a local hospital. The program emphasizes rotations in emergency medicine (24 months) and rotations in trauma and critical care (four months). In addition, there are months in internal medicine, pediatrics, orthopedics, obstetrics and gynecology, anesthesia, and oral surgery. Included in the PGY-3 year is one month of elective time. Research and EMS are incorporated throughout the residency experience. The clinical commitment during emergency medicine rotations will be no more than 60 hours per week along with five hours per week of conferences. The clinical commitment on other services will vary but will be in compliance with ACGME guidelines for each specialty. The program is designed to have graded responsibility for patient care in the emergency department as the resident progresses through the program. In addition, senior residents will be responsible for clinical teaching of students and rotating residents from other specialties in the emergency department. While moonlighting is not prohibited by the Department of Emergency Medicine or the University of Kentucky, the residency program director will monitor the number of hours of all residents who choose to moonlight in order to ensure that extracurricular activities do not interfere with the resident's educational and clinical activities.