Emergency Medicine Residency Curriculum

Our Emergency Medicine Residency curriculum consists of lectures, conferences and rotations:

Morning Report: 7:00 to 8:00am

• Review interesting cases from the previous 24 hours and reinforce basic emergency medicine principles.
• Provide junior residents with useful hints and advice regarding the essentials of emergency patient management.
• Allow senior residents to develop their teaching skills and presentation style.

The senior resident working the previous night shift, with the assistance of junior residents and medical students, will present one or two cases from the previous 24 hours. Unless time allows for completeness, the American Board of Emergency Medicine (ABEM) format will be condensed.

Interesting x-rays, ultrasounds and computed tomography (CT) scans, and subjects of interest will be discussed, along with “The Pearls of Wisdom.” Attendance is mandatory for those emergency medicine, internal medicine, pediatric residents and medical students working the previous night shift and that day shift.

Conferences

Conferences held every Wednesday concentrate on the core content of emergency medicine. Skills labs are held monthly to teach residents procedures in a controlled environment. All emergency medicine residents are expected to attend our morning report conferences. Our journal club is held monthly, concentrating on what has been learned in research design and biostatistics.

For a Wednesday conference monthly schedule, please contact Morristown Medical Center's Emergency Medicine Residency Program Coordinator (Catherine Beimfohr: catherine.beimfohr@atlantichealth.org).

Post Graduate Year Descriptions

PGY 1

• Emergency Department — 18 Shifts, schedule provided by emergency medicine chief. Submit requests: I-hard, I-soft I-educational 
• Anesthesia and Ultrasound — Attend anesthesia daily (M-F) 7:00am for AM tubes: then report to ultrasound 10:00am-5:00pm 
• EMS — Schedule 40 hours on mobile intensive care (MICU) truck. Attend EMS meetings if applicable. 2 emergency department shifts 
• OB-GYN — report to Overlook obstetrics floor (M-F self-scheduled): need at least 10 vaginal deliveries. 
• Pediatric emergency medicine - Schedule in pediatrics emergency department 
• Pediatric emergency medicine and trauma — Schedule in pediatrics emergency department  and attend all traumas: report back to pediatrics emergency department once trauma is finished. 
• Surgical ICU — Report to surgical ICU (SICU) work with SICU team for procedure experience and to build relationships. M-F (approx. 6:00am-5:00pm) 
• Medical ICU/CCU — Contact medicine chiefs for schedule and requests, report to Medical ICU 

PGY - 2

• Emergency department — 17 Shifts, schedule provided by emergency medicine chief. Submit requests: I-hard, I-soft I-educational R* — One rural emergency department shift at Hackettstown Medical Center 
• Toxicology — Monday rotation start: report to New Jersey Poison Center. Attend 3:00pm Tuesday Journal Club.  Four emergency department shifts 
• Pediatric emergency medicine - Schedule inpediatric emergency medicine
• Pediatric emergency medicine, trauma and ultrasound — Schedule in pediatric emergency department and attend all traumas: report back to pediatric emergency department once trauma is finished. Complete 25 bedside ultrasounds.
• Medical ICU/CCU — Contact medicine chiefs for schedule and requests: report to medical ICU 
• Pediatric ICU — Contact pediatrics chiefs for schedule and requests, report to pediatric ICU 

PGY - 3

• Emergency department — 14 adult and two pediatric emergency department shifts, schedule provided by emergency medicine chief. Submit requests: I-hard: I-soft, I-educational R*. One rural emergency department shift at Hackettstown Medical Center.
• Trauma – M, W., F (7:00am-7:00pm) in trauma emergency department & Four pediatric emergency department shifts.
• Pediatric anesthesia and ultrasound — Attend pediatric anesthesia daily (M-F) 7:00am for AM tubes: complete 40 bedside ultrasounds.
• Selective — Choose form the list of available two-week electives palliative care, geriatrics, teaching, fast-track, research, pain management, rural emergency medicine, social medicine, EMS, etc. 
• Elective — Submit elective plans for block, schedule and supervisor. Emergency department  shifts (4) schedule provided by emergency medicine chiefs.