Overview/Curriculum

Located in the heart of Brooklyn, our Emergency Medicine residency program gets you ready for just about anything.

Our Emergency Medicine Residency Training Program has a four-year format: EM-I, EM-II, EM-III and EM-IV. It is approved and fully accredited by the Residency Review Committee (RRC) for Emergency Medicine of the Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education (ACGME). The program encompasses 48 months of study objectives designed to meet the special requirements for residency training in Emergency Medicine. We have 32 residents, 15 full-time faculty and three administrative assistants. We are academically affiliated with the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai Medical Center, and we are in the Fort Greene neighborhood near Downtown Brooklyn.

All rotations are designed in four-week blocks. Over the course of four years, two-thirds of the time is devoted to Emergency Department rotations (adult, pediatric, trauma). EM-I and EM-II residents will spend two blocks in the Pediatric Emergency Department at Harlem Hospital.  EM-III and EM-IV residents have senior pediatric experience in The Brooklyn Hospital Center Pediatric Emergency Department. There are 12 weeks of elective time during the EM-III (four weeks) and EM-IV (eight weeks).

Conference Education

The program has five hours per week of didactic conferences, separate from work rounds and bedside teaching. Residents are excused from clinical responsibilities during all rotations in order to attend conferences. Conferences are held every Wednesday from 9 am to 2 pm.

Features include:

• Core curriculum lectures
• Practice-based learning
• Case conference
• Journal Club/literature review
• Morbidity and Mortality Review
• Joint lectures with Internal Medicine, Surgery, Neurology, Pharmacy and Family Practice
• Trauma Grand Rounds
• Sim Lab

Given our location, we have the unique opportunity to attend New York City conferences including all citywide EM conferences, critical care conferences, trauma conferences, and research conferences.

Specialty Tracks

Specialty tracks are mini-fellowships where our residents can pursue different areas of interest outside of clinical emergency medicine. During their third and fourth year, each resident will have the opportunity to choose a two-week specialty track in a specific area of interest. These tracks will be used to gain a deeper understanding of the area of interest and to begin a project that the resident can continue for the rest of the year. Specialty tracks include:

• Critical Care
• Simulation
• Ultrasound
• Disaster Medicine
• Administrative
• Academic
• Hyperbarics
• Toxicology

Electives

• Administration Elective
• Domestic (U.S.) Electives
• International Electives

About the Hospital and the Emergency Department

• 464-bed, full-service teaching hospital
• High levels of acuity from which to manage critically ill patients in the acute setting
• Designated as Regional Stroke Center
• Serves approximately 60,000 patients per year in the ED
• Collaborates closely with Internal Medicine for continuity of care and preventive health efforts of the population
• The Brooklyn Hospital Center (TBHC) officially finished a major Emergency Department renovation in the summer of 2022. The project was, in part, funded by a New York State Department of Health Transformation Grant of $25 million, the largest award for any New York City health provider in the year that it was granted. This renovation significantly improves the hospital’s response to traumatic injury and illness, and has resulted in a state-of-the-art facility with a separate pediatric emergency room, all within lifesaving minutes of our neighbors’ homes.

Most importantly, our department is like a big family. Our residents are instrumental in selecting the incoming intern class and we are a group that truly enjoys working and playing together. As the specialty of Emergency Medicine has matured, our program has evolved along with it and has become much more academic, yet we never lost our esprit de corps.