Residents receive excellent
teaching both at the bedside and in formal conferences. The faculty
are available in the department at all times, and staff cases with
both junior and senior residents. Residents assume added responsibility
and autonomy as their training progresses, but faculty backup is
universal.
The didactic curriculum includes daily morning teaching rounds
and a weekly five-hour Wednesday afternoon resident conference.
In addition, the monthly four-hour Journal Club is held at faculty
or resident homes and lends a family feeling to the residency. Meals
are provided at most scheduled resident conferences. Residents are
expected to come to conference each week and are relieved from clinical
duties to attend on all outside rotations. The curriculum covers
core diagnosis and management topics, critical case conference,
weekly reading assignments, radiology and ECG conferences, and morbidity
and mortality conferences. Each resident's critical case, procedure,
and resuscitation experience is closely monitored, to assure proper
breadth and depth of training. EMS education involves extensive
hands-on patient care ride-alongs on ground ambulances with the
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