New Program in California: UHS SoCal

 There is a new EM residency program in California that is recruiting for the 2021 Match.  From their Program Manager:

We are thrilled to announce that our new Emergency Medicine Residency at UHS SoCal MEC has received initial accreditation by the ACGME!! We are a Three-Year Categorical program based in Temecula, CA and approved for 10 residents per year. Our Sponsoring Institution, UHS SoCal MEC, is comprised of 5 hospitals recognized for quality of care and patient safety. The program is integrated with 3 of these sites: the primary site is Temecula Valley Hospital (TVH), a busy advanced primary stroke center and STEMI receiving hospital. The other integrated sites include Inland Valley Medical Center, southwest Riverside County's only trauma center, and Rancho Springs Medical Center, which provides the region's only dedicated pediatric emergency services.The program provides EMS Medical Direction for Riverside County, a comprehensive ultrasound and simulation curriculum, PICU experience at Rady Children's Hospital San Diego with lodging provided, and opportunities for healthcare advocacy.

The Program Director(PD) is Stephen R. Hayden, prior PD at UC San Diego, Past President of CORD, Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Emergency Medicine, and an Editor for the 5-Minute Emergency Medicine Consult and Research in the Acute Care Setting. The Associate Program Director (APD) is Robert Steele, an Associate Professor and was one of the founding physicians at TVH and UHS SoCAL MEC. Between them, Drs. Hayden and Steele have over 25 years experience in residency leadership and GME!

 Accepting applications and scheduling interviews via ERAS this interview season and we expect to start our first residency class in July 2021. Please spread the word to EM bound medical students and help us begin our journey!!

Keri Kinley, C-TAGME | Emergency Medicine Program Manager | Keri.Kinley@uhsinc.com | O: (951) 331-2535 | UHS Southern California Medical Education Consortium | Universal Health Services, Inc. | 31700 Temecula Pkwy., Parkway Suites #2-GME, Temecula, CA 92592 | 

www.socalresidency.com

Emergency Medicine Application Advising Q&A on September 11, 2020

We will be part of a Zoom Q&A for students in the 2021 Emergency Medicine Match:

Acing Your Applications: Expert Advice from Baystate EM - Friday 9/11 @ 1pm EST

The UMMS-Baystate Faculty includes three past Chairs of the CORD-EM Advising Students Committee (ASC-EM), the creator of the EMATCH Tool, a co-developer of the EMRA Match Residency Navigator, and the authors of the EM Advisor Blog.

Our panel of experts: Lucienne Lutfy-Clayton, Liza Smith, and Adam Kellogg, will answer all of your questions on how to make the most of your application to Emergency Medicine.

UPDATE: The recording is available on the Baystate EM Seminars page.

Participants do not need to be planning to apply to the UMMS-Baystate residency, or even anywhere in New England, to join in. Our panel has expertise in advising applicants across the United States and are happy to provide advice to all.  

Alternative SLOE's for Emergency Medicine in the 2021 COVID Match

EM Residency Programs will start seeing applications on October 21st.  The goal is to have all of your Letters of Recommendation uploaded to your application by that date, which has been pushed back compared to previous years.  Despite more time to complete rotations most applicants in the 2021 match have not had access to as many EM rotations as in a "normal year". 

To address this the Council of Residency Directors for Emergency Medicine (CORD-EM)  created several additional SLOE templates for use by letter writers who are NOT faculty at an EM Residency Program.  

1. The SLOE Sub-Specialty Rotation - for use by EM Sub-specialty Clerkship Directors (Pedi EM, Ultrasound, Toxicology, etc.)
2. The SLOE Non-EM RESIDENCY Faculty - for Emergency Physicians not affiliated with a residency program (community hospital or academic center without a residency).  
3. The O-SLOE - The "O" stands for "other rotation" or "Off service".  This is for non-EM letter writers like Trauma, Family Med, Critical Care, IM, etc.  

Ask all your letter writers to use these letter templates.  They guide the writer to give the EM Program Directors the information they want to know.  This is not always intuitive to writers from other disciplines.  

While these alternative SLOE's should be a significant improvement from traditional narrative letters the expected hierarchy of letters remains: 

SLOE from EM Program Leadership >> EM Sub-specialty SLOE or SLOE from EM Faculty at a Residency Program > SLOE from EM Faculty NOT at a Program > O-SLOE >>>>>Narrative letter

 Program Directors expect that letters of recommendation will remain the most important part of your application to Emergency Medicine, so make sure you get the right ones.