Rotate across eight hospitals to broaden your expertise 

Build clinical expertise through three years of ACGME-accredited training in emergency medicine. Gain experience caring for diverse patient populations while exploring opportunities in clinical care, research and academic medicine.

Curriculum overview

Comprehensive training prepares you for a range of careers in emergency medicine. Curriculum and rotations across diverse settings help you build skills for community practice, subspecialty training or academic medicine. You will find: 

• One-on-one mentoring from expert emergency medicine faculty 
• State-of-the-art facilities and advanced diagnostic tools  
• Cohorts of 11 residents training at up to eight hospitals around Portland and Astoria, Oregon 
• Four hours of protected didactic education time each week, plus protected time for conferences and seminars

Sample curriculum

Develop clinical expertise through three years of progressive training. You'll begin with core emergency medicine rotations at OHSU and advance to clinical experiences across partner hospital sites. This broad exposure prepares you to care for diverse patient populations in a variety of settings.

Explore sample curriculum for the 2026-27 program year.

Didactics

• As a resident, you’ll have more than four hours a week of protected education time, along with access to training events to support your professional development. These include:
• Wednesday morning didactic sessions
• One hour of asynchronous learning opportunities each week
• Emergency department morbidity and mortality (M&M) conference presentations

• Pediatric emergency medicine conference days

• Seminars and hands-on training in ultrasound, airway management and cadaver lab procedures, plus emergency medical services and disaster simulations
• Wellness and community-building activities through journal club and critical care club

Faculty mentoring

OHSU emergency medicine residents work closely with faculty dedicated to their education and professional development. You will receive guidance in clinical training, career planning, fellowship selection and research, along with mentorship and feedback throughout your residency.  

Explore all department faculty. 

Clinical training facilities

Your rotations span up to eight hospitals across six health systems in the Portland metro area and Astoria, Oregon. You’ll train in academic, community, pediatric and rural settings, gaining experience with diverse patients and approaches to emergency care. Together, our sites see around 300,000 patients each year. 

OHSU Health

Most of your training takes place at OHSU Hospital and Doernbecher Children’s Hospital on Marquam Hill in Portland. Our shared emergency department (ED) serves both hospitals. 

• OHSU Hospital is Oregon’s quaternary referral center, safety-net hospital and one of the state’s two Level I trauma centers. 
• Adult and pediatric emergency medicine faculty provide 24/7 supervision. 
• Year two and year three emergency medicine residents lead patient care, oversee trainees and respond to major trauma cases.  
• Residents from multiple specialties rotate through the ED, creating a collaborative training environment. 

Providence Health

Gain experience in a high-volume community emergency department at Providence St. Vincent Medical Center in southwest Portland. 

• Work alongside board-certified emergency medicine physicians.  
• Treat a broad range of emergency conditions. 
• Learn the practice of community-based emergency medicine. 

Legacy Health

Provide community emergency care for adults and children at Legacy Emanuel Medical Center and Randall Children's Hospital. 

• Work alongside emergency medicine and pediatric emergency medicine physicians in high-volume emergency departments. 
• Build pediatric emergency care skills while treating seriously ill and injured children at Randall Children’s Hospital. 

Kaiser Permanente

Train in two busy community emergency departments at Kaiser Permanente Sunnyside Medical Center and Kaiser Permanente Westside Medical Center, just outside of Portland. 

• Care for patients of all ages and acuity levels.  
• Work across medical, surgical, trauma, pediatric and OB/GYN cases. 
• Gain experience with critically ill and trauma patients. 
• Perform a wide range of emergency procedures. 
• Train in high-volume tertiary care hospitals. 
• Build skills managing patients independently with faculty support. 

Portland VA Medical Center

Lead emergency care for veterans at the Portland VA Medical Center on Marquam Hill. 

• Take greater responsibility by leading care for high-acuity patients. 
• Treat a wide range of emergency conditions. 
• Gain experience managing complex adult patients.  
• Work closely with veterans in a high-volume emergency department. 
• Staff the emergency department alongside faculty from 7 a.m. to 1 a.m.

Columbia Memorial Hospital in Astoria

Train at Columbia Memorial Hospital, a rural critical access hospital on the Oregon Coast. 

• Care for critically ill and injured patients. 
• Manage complex emergencies with limited resources. 
• Work with board-certified emergency medicine physicians. 
• Treat stroke, trauma and other acute emergencies. 
• Build skills in patient stabilization and transfer. 
• Complete this rotation during your second year (PGY-2). 

Research

Along with clinical care and academic training, residents participate in the department’s robust research program with nationally recognized faculty mentors.

Through our Center for Policy and Research in Emergency Medicine (CPR-EM), you will have opportunities to:

• Conduct high-impact research that advances care, from prehospital to emergency and intensive treatment.
• Explore research studies in cardiac arrest, pediatric emergency care, prehospital medicine, substance use, health systems research and healthcare policy.

Through the Center for Health Systems Effectiveness (CHSE), you’ll work with experts in medicine, public health, data analysis and health systems to address real-world healthcare challenges.