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.