Emergency Medicine Residency
Program Director’s Welcome
Welcome to the Emergency Medicine (EM) Residency Program at Memorial Healthcare System. We’re thrilled you're considering our program for your residency training. We're a unique program with an unrivaled patient population that cannot be duplicated and is in no way simulated. The opportunity to learn from such a socioeconomically and pathophysiologically diverse patient population is the major differentiating feature of our training program and what is indisputably the most important and impactful aspect of any training program.
As a resident in our training program, you'll be exposed to the full breadth of Emergency Medicine, only made possible through the ongoing, longitudinal exposure to our patient population, be it the prototypical community-based patient population of Memorial Hospital West, the underserved patient population of Memorial Regional Hospital or the highly specialized pediatric patient population of Joe DiMaggio Children’s Hospital. It is this balance in clinical exposure and experience, among other things, that enables our provision of outstanding clinical training in support of our mission: to educate and train the next generation of EM physicians, capable of caring for any patient regardless of situation or circumstance.
By fostering an environment of curiosity and discovery, you will become a capable, competent, technically proficient, self-actualized and self-confident clinician who puts the care, safety, values and needs of your patients first. You will master the skills required to provide safe, high-quality, cost-effective, culturally conscious, patient- and family-centered care, with the goal of improving the health of the community you serve.
If our mission aligns with yours, we look forward to meeting you to learn all about you and that which you have to contribute to our team.
Guided by our mission, our program has several aims to:
- Recruit, train, and retain a highly qualified, capable, and diverse group of trainees.
- Provide our trainees with a learning environment that supports their physical, emotional, and intellectual transformation so they learn to provide safe, equitable, affordable, compassionate, high-quality care.
- Train physicians with skills in critical thinking and self-directed learning in order to facilitate thoughtful appraisal of scientific literature, and its application to the patient population they serve.
- Produce physicians who are resilient, can adapt to difficult situations, and thoughtfully reconcile adverse outcomes while maintaining a sense of wellness, integrity and purpose.
- Create a supportive, nurturing, and inclusive environment where future physicians and physician educators are prepared for the ever-evolving human experience.
Emergency Medicine Residency
- We are a community-based, university affiliated program sponsored by Memorial Healthcare System—which has a long history of medical education and research through our affiliations with Florida Atlantic University, Florida International University, and Nova Southeastern University.
- We have an Office of Human Research with its own IRB, allowing residents to participate and lead research efforts.
- 3-year training program with 10 residents per post-graduate year.
- 4-week clinical block schedule that maximizes clinical time while providing opportunity for additional experiential learning.
- Three unique sites for clinical training, each of which has its own distinctive patient population, assuring residents a diversity in patient experience, both socioeconomically as well as pathophysiologically.
- Large Emergency Department volumes with high admission rates indicative of patient populations of particularly high acuity.
- Access to an $18 million, 66,000 sq. ft., three story Simulation Center at Broward College.
Hospitals & Practice Sites
Since its inception in 1953, Memorial Healthcare System has been a leader in providing high-quality healthcare services to South Florida residents. Today, it is one of the largest public healthcare systems in the nation and highly regarded for its exceptional patient- and family-centered care. Memorial's patient, physician and employee satisfaction rates are some of the most admired in the country, and the system is recognized as a national leader in quality healthcare.
Memorial Hospital West was one of only two (the other being Memorial Hospital Miramar) hospitals in all of Broward and Miami-Dade County to have received the Leapfrog Group's Top General Hospital Award for 2018, recognizing the highest performing hospitals on the Leapfrog Hospital Survey and in the Spring of 2019, Memorial’s acute care hospitals scored across-the-board A grades in patient safety from The Leapfrog Group. The healthcare system was also honored by the American Hospital Association with the "Living the Vision" award and the "Foster G. McGaw" award for which Memorial was selected from more than 5,000 hospitals as the national model for improving the health of the community.
Memorial has been recognized as one of Modern Healthcare magazine’s “Best Places to Work in Healthcare,” Florida Trend’s “Florida’s Best Companies to Work For,” and Becker’s Hospital Review’s “150 Great Places to Work in Healthcare.” These outstanding achievements are but a few over the course of the past several decades, creating an atmosphere of pride and accomplishment within which residents will learn the very best practices promoting the highest quality of patient care.
About Memorial Regional Hospital
Memorial Regional Hospital (MRH) is the flagship facility of MHS and one of the largest hospitals in Florida. Our 797-bed facility offers extensive and diverse health care services and is one of only seven American College of Surgeons designated Level 1 Trauma Centers in the entire state of Florida. This facility provides the opportunity to care for a variety of patient populations through a patient- and family-centered, collaborative and multidisciplinary approach. High-quality care is provided through a variety of services, including advanced endovascular cardiac and neurosurgical procedures, orthopedic surgery, bariatric surgery, hepatobiliary surgery, general surgery, surgical oncology, robotic surgery, endoscopic procedures, emergency medicine, and a busy obstetric service with a Level IV NICU.
Among its renowned programs are:
- Memorial Cardiac and Vascular Institute
- Memorial Cancer Institute
- Memorial Neuroscience Institute
- Memorial Rehabilitation Institute
- Bariatric Surgery Center - recognized by the Metabolic and Bariatric Surgery Accreditation and Quality Improvement Program (MBSAQIP)
With an annual adult Emergency Department volume of approximately 89,000 patients and an admission rate of approximately 29% (not including patients placed in observation), including more than 3,000 patients who've sustained injuries significant enough to warrant admission, you will have an opportunity to care for a patient population suffering from a wide array of not only emergent illnesses but also traumatic injuries that are of the highest acuity. MRH’s ED is the busiest in highly-urbanized Broward County, nationally recognized as a “Best Practice” site, and is an integral and not easily replicated part of your residency training.
Some of Our 2022 Statistics
- Admissions: 38,926
- Emergency Department Visits: 93,780
About Memorial Hospital West
Memorial Hospital West is a 502-bed academic medicine facility and is part of the Memorial Healthcare System. This facility provides the opportunity to care for a variety of patient populations through a patient- and family-centered, collaborative and multidisciplinary approach. High-quality care is provided through a variety of services, including advanced endovascular cardiac and neurosurgical procedures, orthopedic surgery, bariatric surgery, hepatobiliary surgery, general surgery, surgical oncology, robotic surgery, endoscopic procedures, emergency medicine, and a busy obstetric service with a Level 3 NICU.
Among its renowned programs are:
- Memorial Cardiac and Vascular Institute
- Memorial Cancer Institute
- Memorial Neuroscience Institute
- Bariatric Surgery Center - recognized by the Metabolic and Bariatric Surgery Accreditation and Quality Improvement Program (MBSAQIP)
- Certified Comprehensive Stroke Center
- Moffitt Cancer Center, Blood and Bone Marrow Transplant and Malignant Hematology Cellular Therapy
With an annual Emergency Department (ED) patient volume of approximately 95,000 and an admission rate of approximately 38%, you will not only be exposed to a high volume, but perhaps even more importantly, a high level of acuity—both of which are required to achieve clinical competency and technical proficiency.
Some of Our 2022 Statistics
- Admissions: 34,156
- Emergency Department Visits: 93,483
Population data from the United States Census Bureau assures you will be exposed to a multi-cultural patient population comprised primarily of:
- White, not Hispanic or Latino (approximately 36%),
- Black or African American (approximately 30%),
- Hispanic or Latino (approximately 30%) and
- Asian (approximately 4%) people, 40% of whom speak a language other than English in their homes.
The opportunity to learn from a diverse patient population, with a background different from one's own, can enable a greater understanding and appreciation for the most common clinical conditions that can vary in their presentation due to interpretation and expression impacted by one's beliefs, views, values and experiences. Similarly, the approach to patient care can change based on the same elements, requiring a great degree of sensitivity in order to build a healthy and productive physician-patient relationship. This element of educational experience will produce a degree of cultural competence not easily obtained in an environment with a more homogeneous patient population.
Established in 1992, Joe DiMaggio Children's Hospital is one of the region’s leading pediatric hospitals, offering a comprehensive scope of healthcare services and programs well beyond those offered by other facilities and is the only Pediatric Trauma Center in South Broward County.
The 226-bed facility is a quaternary care Level 1 Trauma Center with approximately 80,000 visits to its emergency room annually and an approximate admission rate of 8% (not including patients placed in observation). Offering not only a high volume, but perhaps even more significantly and impactful, a pediatric patient population as high in its acuity and complexity as it is varied in its condition. As the first children’s hospital in the world to be designated as a Person-Centered Organization by Planetree, Inc., and like Memorial Regional Hospital, it is an integral and not easily replicated part of your residency training. The hospital's approach to care combines advanced technology, state-of-the-art facilities, and a diverse group of board-certified pediatric specialists, that provides a unique experience in a pediatric hospital, embedded within a multi-hospital large community health system.
- 650 physicians on medical staff providing care in more than 30 pediatric medical and surgical specialties
- Recognized by U.S. News and World Report as a “Best Children’s Hospital” in multiple specialties
Number of Beds
- Neonatal Intensive Care Unit (NICU): 84 beds
- Pediatric Intensive Care Unit (PICU): 30 beds
- Pediatric Intermediate Care Unit: 12 beds
- Pediatric Medical/Surgical Beds: 60 beds
- Pediatric Rehabilitation Unit: 6 beds
- Pediatric Behavioral Health Unit: 12 beds
On average, the children's hospital has over 2,400 transfers, 8,000 admissions, 6,000 pediatric surgeries, 53,000 outpatient visits and 110,000 emergency room (ER) visits per year.
About Broward College Health Sciences Simulation Center
The Broward College Health Sciences Simulation Center (HSSC) is a three story, 66,000 sq. ft. learning facility designed to mirror an acute care hospital. HSSC provides realistic experiences, using the latest medical simulation technology, for future health care providers, entry level health science professionals and current community decision makers by allowing them to experience real life situations within a safe learning environment through team collaboration.
- Basic principles of surgery
- Real hospital equipment
- Simulation and robotic surgery
- Web based surgical training
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