What are the central goals and beliefs of the ACMC Emergency Medicine Program?
The four central beliefs of our program, and the focus of our program leadership, are:
1. To train expert emergency physicians
2. To model, support and encourage physician wellness
3. To provide individualized career preparation
4. To value the diversity of our family of physicians in order to provide our patients the highest quality of care and enhance physician-patient partnerships
What are some of the key characteristics of the patient population seen in your ED?
The emergency department sees more than 105,000 patients per year. Our overall admission rate is about 30% of patients seen.
Pediatric patients make up 1/3 of our patient population, and we have about 3,300 Level I trauma activations each year.
Strengths of our Program:
- Every shift 1:1 Faculty-Resident clinical teaching
- Atypical graduated responsibility/Acuity
- Active learning
- Faculty and senior resident mentorship
- Dedicated ED PharmDs
- 2 months elective, 1 month ED based selective
- One site
- Resident Director leadership positions
- Flexible Scheduling - residents free to trade shifts
- State-of-the-Art Simulation Center
- Community Outreach
- Disaster Medicine
- ED Crisis Workers 24/7
- Written and Oral Board Exam Prep
Pediatrics:
-38,084 pediatric visits in 2022
-Dedicated Pediatric Emergency Medicine Residency
- 22 bed Pediatric ED opened in 2017
- Pediatric experience all 3 years of training
- Longitudinal curriculum features PED shifts on every EM month
- First year 2 weeks dedicated PED
- Second year 4 weeks PICU
- Didactic lecture series
How does Trauma work?
- Approx. 3,300 Level 1 Trauma patients annually
- 2/3 Blunt, 1/3 Penetrating
- Great relationship with trauma service
- 2 months on Trauma service, 1 month in the Trauma ICU
- EM Residents share responsibility to run trauma codes
- Plenty of procedures
Ultrasound:
- Co-Fellowship directors - Mike Lambert, MD and Katie Burns, MD
- Longest continuous U/S fellowship 1996-present
- First Year Residents complete 2 week U/S rotation, >80 scans performed
- Philosophy that US is tool for daily use in ED
- Didactic curriculum: U/S courses
- Ultrasound Website
Simulation:
- Simulation Director: Travis Hase, MD
-Residency Director of Social EM Simulation: Oyin Okubanjo, MD
- New Simulation Center 2018
- Integrated into the EM curriculum
- Focus on high acuity, low frequency scenarios
Our Graduates:
- Capable in all EM environments
- Graduates practice all across country
- Alumni Network grown over 40 years
- Residents prepared for fellowship, academics, and community practice
EMS:
- EMS Director Jess Sinnott, MD
- Director of Disaster Medicine Liz Regan, MD
- EM2: EMS/Administration rotation
- In September 2018, we designed and conducted the largest mass casualty disaster drill in Illinois history (Click here to view a short recap)
- EMS academy
- Online medical control for 12,000 runs annually
Changes- Bricks and Mortar:
- New Pediatric ED opened March 2017
- New Simulation Center opened 2018
-new Adult ED opened September 2023
