Curriculum development is an ongoing process for the Emergency Medicine Residency Program. During the past 25 years the curriculum has been regularly reviewed and often revised to provide residents with well-balanced training. The current curriculum is a mixture of clinical and didactic experiences designed to expose each resident to every aspect of emergency medicine.
Our philosophy is that emergency medicine is learned best in the Emergency Department. Other clinical rotations are utilized to augment the Emergency Department experience. Toward that end, our program has a total of 24 months of emergency medicine, including five months in the first year
Emergency Medicine
The most important aspect of any emergency medicine training program is the quality of the experience in the emergency department. In addition to OHSU University hospital, three emergency departments in Portland have been selected to participate because they offer unique settings, patient populations with a wide variety of medical problems, and excellent clinical faculty. They provide state-of-the-art emergency care and are staffed 24 hours a day by board-certified emergency physicians.
Observation Medicine
In July of 1997 the Department of Emergency Medicine opened a 10-bed, monitored observation unit. Emergency Medicine residents are involved in many aspects of this state-of-the-art unit, extending patient care beyond traditional ED evaluation.
Trauma
Trauma management is taught with a step-wise increase of resident responsibilities. EM-I residents begin with one month as the admitting intern on the Trauma Service and four months of Emergency Department experience evaluating injured patients not formally entered into the trauma system.
All EM-I residents become Advanced Trauma Life Support (ATLS) certified by the end of the first year.
EM-II and EM-III residents spend seven months in the Emergency Department at OHSU Hospital, a Level I Trauma Center, where they attend to all trauma system patients.
EM-II and EM-III residents alternate the responsibilities of trauma team leader with PGYV Surgery residents. Responsibilities at this level include fully evaluating each trauma patient, documenting injuries and care provided, and performing various procedures and tasks during the resuscitation, including invasive procedures and the FAST exam. An additional month in the Surgical ICU rounds out the trauma experience in the EM-II year. More clinical experiences
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