University of Pittsburgh Emergency Medicine Residency

nd the Western Pennsylvania Hospital. For nearly 30 years, the combined resources of these institutions, with their outstanding teaching staffs and varied patient populations, have offered our residents opportunity and experience available in few other programs. Residents have also provided emergency care at Children's Hospital of Pittsburgh. With 75,000 patient visits, it is the busiest emergency department in the city. They provide care in several other affiliated community and specialty hospitals. Together, these facilities see more than 200,000 emergency patients per year. Residents have at their disposal the full resources of the Center for Emergency Medicine: the STAT MedEvac Program, the Bureau of Emergency Medical Services of the City of Pittsburgh, the Pittsburgh Poison Center and the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine. With this network of clinical and academic resources at the resident's disposal, the opportunities for training and research are truly unrivaled. The program recently underwent a major transformation of relocating several rotations at West Penn Hospital to Shadyside Hospital, which is formally a second campus of UPMC-Presbyterian. Shadyside offers residents superior emergency medicine and critical care experiences in a combined community and academic setting. Collegiality among residents and faculty is the most powerful influence in assuring that the mission of the Residency is achieved. This inspired camaraderie explains why so many residents look back on their three years of training as among the most exciting of their lives. The institutions that sponsor the University of Pittsburgh Emergency Medicine Residency program have committed themselves to an educational program that is dedicated to the training of such physicians--individuals who, by virtue of excellence in clinical care, education, research, and administrative and leadership skills, will be among the next generation of leaders in emergency medicine.