Clinical experiences are enhanced by formal didactic sessions, including a daily Morning Report and the Wednesday Departmental Conference. Overall, residents are exposed to eight hours of formal didactic instruction each week. The educational curriculum is structured such that residents are exposed to the entire core content of Emergency Medicine at least twice in their training. In addition, residents are encouraged to attend and to participate in major conferences offered by the NYC Poison Control Center, the New York City Department of Health, the New York City Emergency Medicine community, and national specialty organizations.
The Department of Emergency Medicine sponsors several conferences with national recognition. The yearly Clinical Toxicology course reviews important topics for emergency physicians and covers recent literature and advances in the field. Contemporary Concepts in Clinical Emergency Medicine offers an evidence-based review of the literature on current topics in emergency medicine. The Emergency Radiology course is a comprehensive overview of plain film and CT radiography that is offered three times during the course of each year.
Residents have significant teaching responsibilities. They prepare discussions for Morning Report and teach didactic lectures for medical students. All residents obtain certification in BLS, PALS, ACLS, ATLS, and NALS, and ultimately teach these courses in the Bellevue Emergency Care Institute. For the Departmental Wednesday Conference, residents are assigned to teach lectures according to their level of training. PGY-2 residents are responsible for Journal Club and Rosen's Review lectures. PGY-3 residents teach a n Evidence-Based Medicine lecture or a joint Internal Medicine-Emergency Medicine lecture, and one Core Content lecture. Senior residents give a Core Content Lecture and lead a Morbidity and Mortality or Trauma conference.
Proficiency in technical skills is obtained through supervised practice in the Emergency Department and during procedure laboratories. A two-day procedure based course using cadavers reviews important procedural skills necessary in Emergency Medicine on a yearly basis.