Stanford School of Medicine
Emergency Medicine

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.

ConferenceSenior-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
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
dpl reading ecg
Performing DPL on trauma Analyzing an ECG on cardiology

PGY-2 ROTATIONS  

Rotation Length
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
reviewing films intubation
Reviewing films during a shift Intubating during a Code
lifeflight
Meeting a patient at the helipad

PGY-3 ROTATIONS

Rotation Length
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
Life Flight Taking Charge
On Life Flight elective Taking charge in the ED
SAEM
Presenting research at SAEM

Technology

TechnologyResidents 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.

Control Room

Debriefing

 

 

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