Education
In addition to clinical rotations, residents receive formal education through a variety of didactic and interactive formats.
Core Conference
Residents are excused from clinical duties every Wednesday morning to attend 4-hour conferences that follow the core curriculum. Lectures and workshops are conducted by residency faculty, visiting faculty, and residents. Joint lectures with other training programs, such as radiology, surgery, and internal medicine, are also a part of the core curriculum. Grand Rounds are held monthly.
Senior-Directed Curriculum
This two-hour conference for senior residents is held monthly. Topics address issues pertinent to recent residency graduates: career advancement, contract negotiations, insurance, billing and coding, medicolegal issues, etc.
Journal Club
Journal club is held one evening a month in an informal setting: either the home of a faculty member or a local restaurant. Emphasis is placed on learning how to critically read medical literature and foster discussion between residents and faculty, as well as to find current research that may change one’s practice. Journal clubs may be theme-based, joint meetings with other programs such as pediatrics, or reviews of a variety of recent articles.
Clinical Rotations
Residents complete a 3-year clinical curriculum that emphasizes a broad training experience as interns and progresses to graduated responsibility in the Emergency Department throughout the second and third years. Click below to view the rotations for each year.
PGY-1 ROTATIONS
| Rotation | Length |
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| Orientation | 4 weeks |
| Stanford Medical Center ED (adult & pediatric EM) | 4 weeks |
| Kaiser Santa Clara ED (adult & pediatric EM) | 5 weeks |
| Trauma Surgery | 4 weeks |
| General Surgery | 3 weeks |
| Internal Medicine | 4 weeks |
| Intensive Care Unit | 4 weeks |
| Cardiac Care Unit | 4 weeks |
| Neonatal Intensive Care Unit | 2 weeks |
| Pediatrics | 4 weeks |
| Orthopedics | 4 weeks |
| Obstetrics and Gynecology | 3 weeks |
| Anesthesia | 3 weeks |
| Research | 1 week |
| Vacation | 3 weeks |
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| Performing DPL on trauma | Analyzing an ECG on cardiology |
PGY-2 ROTATIONS
| Rotation | Length |
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| Stanford University Medical Center ED | 11.5 weeks |
| Kaiser Santa Clara Medical Center ED | 11 weeks |
| San Francisco General Hospital ED | 10.5 weeks |
| Santa Clara Valley Medical Center ED | 5 weeks |
| Pediatric Emergency Medicine | 3 weeks |
| Medical Intensive Care Unit | 4 weeks |
| Surgical Intensive Care Unit | 3 weeks |
| Research | 1 week |
| Vacation | 3 weeks |
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| Reviewing films during a shift | Intubating during a Code |
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| Meeting a patient at the helipad | |
PGY-3 ROTATIONS
| Rotation | Length |
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| Stanford University Medical Center ED | 10.5 weeks |
| Kaiser Santa Clara Medical Center ED | 10 weeks |
| San Francisco General Hospital ED | 10.5 weeks |
| Santa Clara Valley Medical Center ED | 5 weeks |
| Pediatric Emergency Medicine | 3 weeks |
| Emergency Medical Services | 1 week |
| Elective | 8 weeks |
| Research | 1 week |
| Vacation | 3 weeks |
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| On Life Flight elective | Taking charge in the ED |
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| Presenting research at SAEM | |
Technology
Residents have access to a variety of resources that one might expect from living in Silicon Valley. Stanford provides all residents with free email, webpage hosting and access to a variety of medical databases. Residents complete evaluations, log procedures, and check conference and individual schedules through a web-based system that is PDA-compatible.
A unique opportunity for all residents is the Emergency Medicine Crisis Resource Management (EMCRM) simulator. Each year, residents are trained in handling multiple-patient scenarios in a simulator setting. Life-sized mannequins with computer controlled vital signs, physical exam findings and voice capability are used in case studies appropriate for each level of training. Each session is videotaped and residents are debriefed after each scenario to hone their clinical skills.
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