Curriculum

MetroHealth’s residency program offers rigorous training in a research-focused, immersive environment. Some highlights of the program include:

  • More than 60 peer reviewed publications in the past three years with ample opportunities for resident participation
  • Ground and air pre-hospital care
  • Quarterly simulation center experience on site for learning critical life-saving skills
  • Monthly cadaver lab with 5 – 7 cadavers
  • Opportunity to teach medical students and EMT/paramedics in the Emergency Department as well as the classroom
  • Residency support facilities at both MetroHealth and Cleveland Clinic
  • Excellent employee benefits
  • Affordable housing with all the benefits of a large metropolitan area

Emergency Medicine Year 1

Objectives:

  • Focus on acquiring skills and sound knowledge base
  • Gain broad exposure to principles and practice of emergency medicine
  • Receive instruction by attending physicians in the Emergency Department

Emergency Medicine

  

24 weeks

Medical Stepdown Unit (MetroHealth)

 

4 weeks

Anesthesia (Hillcrest/Cleveland Clinic)

 

4 weeks (1 week vacation)

Ultrasound in Emergency Medicine (MetroHealth)

 

4 weeks (1 week vacation)

Pediatric Emergencies (Fairview/Cleveland Clinic)   4 weeks

Neuro ICU (Cleveland Clinic)


4 weeks

OB (MetroHealth)

 

4 weeks (1 week vacation)

Trauma Surgery (MetroHealth)

 

4 weeks

Emergency Medicine Year 2

Objectives:

  • Focus on critically ill and injured patients in the Emergency Department
  • Focus on development of critical care and lifesaving skills on off-service rotations

Emergency Medicine

 

36 weeks (3 weeks vacation)

Pediatric ICU (Cleveland Clinic)

 

4 weeks

Medical ICU (MetroHealth)

 

4 weeks

Cardiac ICU (MetroHealth)

 

4 weeks

Elective

 

4 weeks

 

Emergency Medicine Year 3

Objectives:

  • Focus on issues unique to emergency medicine
  • Directly manage critically ill and/or injured patients
  • Learn direction and management of patient flow in the Emergency Department

Emergency Medicine

  

40 weeks 

Aeromedical Medicine

 

4 weeks (1 week vacation)

Toxicology/Administration

 

4 weeks (1 week vacation)

Community

 

4 weeks (1 week vacation)

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