More New Programs and Updates

Continuing the EM Program updates:

New Combined Program:  Johns Hopkins Combined EM/Anesthesia Program:

Dr. Linda Regan:

The Johns Hopkins Department of Emergency Medicine is pleased to announce that we are accepting applications for our newly accredited combined EM-Anesthesiology program.  This 6-year combined program will allow for dual board certification in the highly complementary fields of EM and Anesthesiology.   We are hoping to find some interested and well-qualified applicants with a plan to start in July of 2018 with two trainees. 

Within ERAS, students should be able to find us by either entering our ACGME program number (7962300001) or by searching for the specialty of EM-Anesthesiology, as we are currently the only program listed.

More information about our new combined program, as well as details about the rotation outline, program leadership, and links to the categorical programs of both EM and Anesthesiology can be found here:

http://www.hopkinsmedicine.org/emergencymedicine/combined-residency/

Additional questions can be directed to Linda Regan (program director) at lregan@jhmi.edu or the program coordinator for this combined program, Christina Tarleton, at ctarlet1@jhmi.edu

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New Program:  Cape Fear Valley Medical Center

Paul Kleinschmidt:

We are a new program that just started our first group of residents this year.   We were an AOA approved residency that had not taken students but went ahead and made the application for ACGME certification at the same time.   We received our initial certification in April and as such are dually accredited.   We are a four year program that takes 8 residents per year for a total of 32 at this point.

Here is a little more about our facility and program:

Cape Fear Valley Medical Center is the flagship hospital of the Cape Fear Valley Health System, that serves as the major medical system for southeastern North Carolina, and includes six hospitals. The main 110 bed emergency department is the busiest in the state of North Carolina, and easily in the top twenty nationally with over 140,000 visits per year. Our department handles over 2400 medical codes and 800 traumas a year by EMS arrival alone, along with a 30% admission rate in a high acuity population. We are a certified trauma, stroke, stemi, and sepsis center. There is also a co-located pediatric ED serving over 30,000 patients per year. In 2017 we accepted our first class of emergency medicine residents with the eventual goal of 32 residents over a four year program.  We have the volume and resources to keep residents in house for all four years with the exception of toxicology.   Being a four year program we offer some ability to make our last year unique with additional focus on ED administration and other focused interests for the residents, in anticipation of career paths or fellowships.  In addition, while we take both MD’s and DO’s, we will have an osteopathic tract and certification, even training MD’s to a standard of osteopathic principles and practices.

Website:  http://www.capefearvalley.com/residency/programs/emergency-medicine-contacts.html

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New Program: Sunrise Consortium Emergency Medicine Program in Las Vegas

Michael P. Allswede:

I am the PD of the new accredited Sunrise Consortium Emergency Medicine Program in Las Vegas, ACGME: 1103100190.  

The Sunrise Consortium Program in Emergency Medicine is a 36 month program in emergency medicine located in Las Vegas.  The program is combined between the MountainView Hospital, an 80,000 visit acute care community hospital and the Sunrise Hospital, a Level II Trauma Center and 105,000 adult and 55,000 pediatric emergency department.  At 240,000 patient visits per year, the Sunrise consortium is among the most robust clinical education experiences in emergency medicine.  The modular active learning curriculum for emergency medicine (MALCEM), is a literature based, active learning educational experience in which the resident is provided over 300 landmark and cutting edge articles to discuss and engage in a simulation environment.  The combination of astute understanding of the literature and a robust clinical experience is designed to develop superior emergency physicians."

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New Program:  Reading Hospital Emergency Residency Program in Reading, PA

Kristen M. Sandel:

The Reading Hospital Emergency Medicine Residency Program was recently accredited in April 2017 by the ACGME as a 3-year residency program.  We are currently accepting applications via ERAS for 8 residents in our inaugural class and will be participating in the NRMP match.  Reading Hospital is located in Reading, PA and our Emergency Department (ED) was recently recognized as one of the ten busiest single-site Emergency Departments in the United States.  With over 120 beds in our ED and limited other learners, we are proud to offer incoming residents the opportunity to care for a great variety and volume of patients while providing residents with an abundance of procedural experience.  

Please feel free to contact us for details concerning our program or visit our website.  https://www.rhemresidency.com/ 

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UPDATE - October 23, 2017:

AOA to ACGME: Arrowhead Regional Medical Center in San Bernadino, CA

Tom Minahan: 

Arrowhead Regional Medical Center (San Bernardino County Hospital) in California, is an AOA EM program that has now received ACGME Initial Accreditation.

website: http://armcemergency.org/

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New Program Alert and a Change in Format

We are going to start highlighting major changes to the landscape of Emergency Medicine residency programs.  This post contains two program updates.

New Program:

Wellstar Kennestone Hospital in Atlanta, GA

Edward Stettner, Program Director:

"...the Emergency Medicine Residency Program at Wellstar Kennestone Hospital has received our initial accreditation and that we will be accepting applications through ERAS for our first class of 12 residents to begin July 1, 2018.

The emergency department at Kennestone is the busiest in Georgia, and last year ranked as the fifth busiest nationally. We are a Level 2 trauma center, anAmerican College of Cardiology Accredited Chest Pain Center with Primary Percutaneous Coronary Intervention, and an American Heart Association Joint Commission

Certified Advanced Comprehensive Stroke Center. We are a multi-specialty tertiary care receiving facility and the hub of the Wellstar Health System. We currently have residency programs in Internal Medicine, OB-GYN, and Transitional Year, and will be looking to add additional programs in the next 3-5 years.

For residents looking to get in on the ground floor of a program with tremendous educational opportunity, this is an ideal fit. Wellstar has made a commitment to the growth of Graduate Medical Education and I am very excited about the future of medical education at Kennestone.

...contact me with any questions about the program. Our website is being updated as we speak, but contact other information is available:  http://gme.wellstar.org/"

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Format Change:

St. Joseph’s Regional Medical Center at New York Medical College in Paterson, NJ

Anthony Catapano, Clerkship Director:

"I’d like to announce that St. Joseph’s Regional Medical Center (Paterson, NJ) at New York Medical College has received approval from the ACGME to transition from a four year program to a three year program!  This change will be reflected in the current application cycle and match."

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Each year more EM programs open and a few make changes to their format.  We will feature those updates here as they are announced.

SVI Update - What do these scores mean?!?

This is just a quick post regarding the Standardized Video Interview (SVI) that all students applying to EM were required to participate in.  In June I wrote about the SVI to give applicants some perspective on how the EM Program Directors saw this project.  

With the release of SVI scores to the applicants a discussion has sprung up among the Program Directors about its utility this year and in the future.  This started with concerns over poor correlation between the impression an advisor had of an applicant and the score they received.

From this discussion the general consensus is that Program Directors are NOT using the SVI score to make significant decisions.  They are evaluating how well it correlates with their impressions of their advisees, and later, of the applicants they interview.  

This should be reassuring to all those worried that the SVI has thrown a monkey-wrench into their application plans.  

Programs get your applications tomorrow.  Submit everything that is in your control (PS, ERAS application, board score release) and assign letters to your programs.  Then do your best to have a great weekend.  You have worked hard, take a couple days off (if you can).  
Adam Kellogg is an Associate Residency Director, former Clerkship Director, past-Chair of the CORD Student Advising Task Force, and incredibly grateful he didn't have to submit a video of himself answering "interview questions" to all the EM programs he applied to.  And not just because that would have used up a lot of VHS tapes.