As many of you may have noticed in the e-mail earlier this week, YES - Wilderness Medicine Elective (MedS 534) will be offered this spring.
Unfortunately, we still don't know if the EM elective will be offered this year, so you might want to consider taking this course instead.
Friday, January 16, 2009
Monday, January 5, 2009
The Seattle EM Residency
Its official!!! Our Emergency Medicine residency is in the process of being built here in Seattle!!! No more rumors, money is changing hands, people are being hired and major recruitment efforts have begun!
I spoke with Dr. Fiona Gallahue, the new EM residency director and an attending EM doc at Harborview, about our upcoming program. She is very excited, along with many other Harborview EM attendings, about the momentum we are building. As many of you know, Dr. Copass has retired from clinical duties at Harborview and the EM Residency is moving forward with full support of the UW and Harborview communities. There are still a lot of changes in store and it will not always be smooth sailing, but it is happening. As a past leader of the EMIG here at UW and one of those that worked hard to get this issue noticed while I was attending UW, I want to say thanks! Good work EMIG students on helping to accentuate this issue with the school administration and your effort is now being rewarded!
Below is the email Dr. Gallhue sent out to the EM community in an attempt to broaden the recruitment effort for new EM faculty. I thought I would share it with you all! From what I understand, the first application year will be 2011, so all you E-08's will be the first to apply if things stay on track!
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Sent: Dec 3, 2008 12:16 PM
Subject: The University of Washington is recruiting
Dear CORD community:
The University of Washington School of Medicine, Division of Emergency Medicine announces plans to build an emergency medicine residency program, and is seeking highly motivated, board prepared/certified academic oriented Emergency Medicine physicians to join in this exciting venture. The new Division Head will be Susan Stern, and she will be starting in that position in this Spring of '09. Attached is an advertisement. If you know of interested faculty or graduating residents, please forward this to them. Sue may be contacted directly by e-mail.
Thank you for your attention.
Fiona Gallahue, M.D.
Assistant Professor
Harborview Medical Center
I spoke with Dr. Fiona Gallahue, the new EM residency director and an attending EM doc at Harborview, about our upcoming program. She is very excited, along with many other Harborview EM attendings, about the momentum we are building. As many of you know, Dr. Copass has retired from clinical duties at Harborview and the EM Residency is moving forward with full support of the UW and Harborview communities. There are still a lot of changes in store and it will not always be smooth sailing, but it is happening. As a past leader of the EMIG here at UW and one of those that worked hard to get this issue noticed while I was attending UW, I want to say thanks! Good work EMIG students on helping to accentuate this issue with the school administration and your effort is now being rewarded!
Below is the email Dr. Gallhue sent out to the EM community in an attempt to broaden the recruitment effort for new EM faculty. I thought I would share it with you all! From what I understand, the first application year will be 2011, so all you E-08's will be the first to apply if things stay on track!
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Sent: Dec 3, 2008 12:16 PM
Subject: The University of Washington is recruiting
Dear CORD community:
The University of Washington School of Medicine, Division of Emergency Medicine announces plans to build an emergency medicine residency program, and is seeking highly motivated, board prepared/certified academic oriented Emergency Medicine physicians to join in this exciting venture. The new Division Head will be Susan Stern, and she will be starting in that position in this Spring of '09. Attached is an advertisement. If you know of interested faculty or graduating residents, please forward this to them. Sue may be contacted directly by e-mail.
Thank you for your attention.
Fiona Gallahue, M.D.
Assistant Professor
Harborview Medical Center
Wednesday, November 26, 2008
Emergency Medicine Rotations
With the recent clerkship conferences for 2nd-year students, we thought we'd try to preempt a mass of e-mails re: when to do your emergency medicine rotation. Like everything else in medical school and life, it's sort of up to you.
Dr. Strote suggested that students not worry too much about ensuring that the 3rd year elective spot is last in order to take your EM rotation during that time so you can do an away rotation the first slot of 4th year. This is what was typically recommended in the past.
Instead, feel free to wait and make EM at UWMC or HMC your first rotation of the 4th year. You should also think about doing an away rotation after your 4th year EM rotation. The away rotation doesn't necessarily have to be completed prior to your ERAS but it can help to get a letter of recommendation and is recommended.
Still, in the past, Dr. Strote and others have suggested that students complete the required EM rotation AND an away EM rotation prior to submitting ERAS.
Also, the gurus in charge of arranging our track schedules are aware that EM folks typically want their 3rd year elective period last so if you say that you're planning on EM, you might have a better chance at getting it. Just a tip.
Dr. Strote suggested that students not worry too much about ensuring that the 3rd year elective spot is last in order to take your EM rotation during that time so you can do an away rotation the first slot of 4th year. This is what was typically recommended in the past.
Instead, feel free to wait and make EM at UWMC or HMC your first rotation of the 4th year. You should also think about doing an away rotation after your 4th year EM rotation. The away rotation doesn't necessarily have to be completed prior to your ERAS but it can help to get a letter of recommendation and is recommended.
Still, in the past, Dr. Strote and others have suggested that students complete the required EM rotation AND an away EM rotation prior to submitting ERAS.
Also, the gurus in charge of arranging our track schedules are aware that EM folks typically want their 3rd year elective period last so if you say that you're planning on EM, you might have a better chance at getting it. Just a tip.
New EM Residency Programs
The ACGME approved the following programs for Emergency Medicine residencies and they are accepting applications for matriculation in July 2009:
- Case Western Reserve University
- Lehigh Valley Hospital
- St. Louis University
- University of Toledo
