Emergency Medicine

PGY 1

The first block of the PGY-1 year begins with an intense, structured orientation consisting of seminars, workshops, lectures, and simulations, as well as some clinical experiences in both emergency departments. The balance of the year provides fundamental experiences in emergency care, intensive care, some subspecialty care and ultrasound skills.

PGY 2

Emphasis during the PGY-2 year is placed on critical care, trauma care, and pediatric emergency care. Residents assume a supervisory role in the CCU, as well as during trauma resuscitations in the emergency department. Imbedded within the Yale emergency medicine experience are in-depth emergency medical services opportunities.

PGY 3

PGY-3 residents begin to assume the role of supervisor and teacher, both in the emergency department and the critical care units, while continuing their education in critical care, trauma, and general emergency medicine. Four weeks of elective and/or research time is allotted so that residents may pursue areas of interest.

PGY 4

The PGY-4 year is spent honing the role of emergency department supervisor and educator. Residents oversee the care of all patients in their section of the department, receiving case presentations from junior residents, and supervising all interventions, procedures, and dispositions. Concurrently, the resident is expected to provide bedside education to junior residents and students. During the simulation block, residents are expected to lead morning conferences, and play a significant educational role in the simulation lab. Six weeks of elective and/or research time is provided to allow residents to pursue areas of interest.

Our graduates have been very successful at obtaining highly sought after fellowships in the sub specialties of emergency medicine. Fellowships obtained in past five years include:

• Emergency Medical Services – Yale University
• Global Health – Stanford University
• Global Health – Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Harvard University
• Toxicology – Rocky Mountain Poison Control Center, University of Colorado
• Emergency Ultrasound – University of Pennsylvania
• Pediatric Emergency Medicine – University of North Carolina
• Emergency Ultrasound – Yale University
• International Emergency Medicine – Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Harvard University
• Emergency Medical Services/Disaster Medicine – University of California, San Diego
• Global Health – Emory University
• Health Administration – George Washington University
• Emergency Medical Services – Denver Health, University of Colorado
• Emergency Ultrasound – Drexel University
• Toxicology – New York City Poison Control Center, New York University

Graduates now serve as faculty in departments of emergency medicine at the following university programs.

• Harvard University – Beth Israel Deaconess Hospital
• Harvard University – Brigham and Women’s Hospital
• Yale University
• University of Tennessee
• Medical College of Wisconsin
• Brown University
• University of Pittsburgh
• Albany Medical College
• Baylor University

The Yale Emergency Medicine residency program offers five hours of didactic conference every Wednesday morning. The curriculum from the American Board of Emergency Medicine Model of EM is covered in two years, ensuring that residents are exposed to core topics at least twice during their residency. Though traditional lectures are scattered throughout the conference schedule, the vast majority of didactic sessions occur primarily in small group formats, targeted at each PGY year. Highlights of the conference schedule include:

• Simulation labs
• Grand rounds with prominent visiting professors
• Core content lectures
• Toxicology lecture series
• Critical care lecture series
• Morbidity and mortality conference
• Trauma conference
• Journal club
• Procedure labs (ex. difficult airways, casting, thoracostomy)
• Interactive ultrasound review
• Pediatric EM lecture series
• Mock oral board exams
• Morning report
• ACLS, ATLS, and PALS certification
• Yale EM Global Health Day