OHSU Hospital and Doernbecher Children's Hospital
The Emergency Medicine Residency Program is based at OHSU Hospital, the major teaching hospital for the School of Medicine, School of Nursing and School of Dentistry at OHSU. Residency programs are available in all major specialties and subspecialties. OHSU Hospital is the tertiary care center for Oregon and one of only two Level I trauma centers in the state. It serves as the only base station for on-line control of prehospital care in the greater Portland area.

All care provided in the ED, which serves both OHSU Hospital and Doernbecher Children's Hospital, is under the direct supervision of attending staffing which is provided 24 hours a day by Department of Emergency Medicine faculty.

Emergency medicine residents (EM II or III) provide the main staffing for the ED. They are also responsible for supervising students, managing patients primarily and responding to all major trauma cases. Residents from medicine, surgery, pediatrics, family practice, OB/GYN and emergency medicine interns rotate through the Emergency Department. In 1993 the academic faculty of the Emergency Departments of OHSU Hospital and the Portland Veterans Affairs Medical Center Emergency Care Unit were formally combined. The Portland VA provides a high volume, high acuity experience with an enhanced degree of resident responsibility. The two emergency units will see a combined annual volume of over 67,000 ED visits.

Providence St. Vincent Medical Center
The rotation at Providence St. Vincent Medical Center, a modern, suburban hospital in the Portland area, provides an emergency medicine experience in the private community setting. All of the attendings at St. Vincent hold academic appointments at OHSU and most are graduates of the OHSU Program.

The Emergency Department sees approximately 73,000 patients per year with an additional 12,000 patients triaged to the adjoining Fast-Track pod system. Residents get first-hand experience working in a busy ED, with private physicians who are EM board-certified/eligible.

Legacy Emanuel Hospital and Health Center
There are 29 beds total in the combined pediatric and adult ED’s at Emanuel. The Children's Emergency and After Hours at Emanuel is a five-bed unit in addition to a sixth pediatric critical/trauma bay in the main emergency department, where more than 16,000 children are seen annually. Residents work in concert with emergency physicians trained in pediatrics, pediatricians, and pediatric emergency specialists, all of whom bring a unique perspective to the care of the ill and injured child. The focus of this rotation is the continued development of clinical and procedural skills necessary for the successful management of seriously ill children.

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