Wednesday, January 24, 2007

EMIG, UW & Harborview Discuss EM Residency (with video & audio!)

Check out the video or audio files of this meeting! (150MB WMV file) or (12MB MP3 file) The quality is not great, but if you turn it up you can tell what is happening.

The UW EMIG sponsored a discussion between the administration of both the UW School of Medicine and Harborview Medical Center regarding the establishment of an Emergency Medicine Residency Program. In the past, the UW has had an EM program, but for various reasons it was recently discontinued. Below you will find links to video and audio from the meeting.


The meeting was attended by:

William J. Bremner, M.D., Ph.D.Chair Robert G. Petersdorf Professor and Chairman of the Department of Medicine at UWMC

Scott Barnhart M.D., M.P.H. - Professor of Medicine and Environmental Health, UW., Medical Director/Associate Dean, Harborview Medical Center


John B. Coombs, M.D. – (via teleconference) Associate Vice President for Clinical Systems and Community Relations, and Vice Dean for Regional Affairs, Rural Health and Graduate Medical Education


Joe York, Ph.D. - Associate Dean for Graduate Medical Education

Thomas E. Norris, M.D. - Vice Dean for Academic Affairs, Professor of Family Medicine and Adjunct Professor in Biomedical Informatics, Medicine & Health Services.