Why train at UT Southwestern ? 

We feel strongly that our graduates are remarkably well prepared to practice Emergency Medicine in every setting from a busy community hospital to an academic center.  What are the highlights of the training?

• The Basics: The broad base of training includes the Parkland and Children’s Hospital Emergency Departments that as an integrated system, triage over 200,000 adults and children annually.  The 2 ED’s are physically connected.
• Acuity:  Over 1 of every 4 patients treated in the Parkland ED is admitted.  Similarly, the acuity of patient care in the Children’s ED is very high.  EM residents perform resuscitations every shift.
• Pediatric EM:  10 Pediatric EM board certified faculty as well as many of the adult EM faculty supervise all EM resident patient care in one of the busiest Children’s ED’s in the country.  Residents have an unusually strong opportunity to perform resuscitations, procedures, procedural sedations, etc.
• Toxicology: 9 board certified or board prepared Toxicology faculty supervise the busy Toxicology service, including the very popular Toxicology rotation for EM residents. 
• EMS/Disaster Medicine:  9 EM faculty have special interest in this exciting area of Emergency Medicine, and provide lectures, training, etc.  Opportunities in ground and air transport are available.  Residents can teach in the nationally accredited EMS education programs.   Residents also participate in disaster response efforts locally.  During Hurricane Katrina, residents helped treat the more than 8000 patients seen in the Emergency Medicine supervised medical unit at the Dallas Convention Center.  The Division has over a million dollars in grants to provide training in disaster education through the National Disaster Life Support Program.
• Grants / Research: Emergency Medicine faculty are principal investigators on nearly $17 million in grants, including 2 NIH centers. One focuses on resuscitation research and the other on burn research.
• Fellowships: There are fellowship opportunities in Toxicology; Government Emergency Medical Services and Security; Practice Management and Health Care Policy; and Pediatric Emergency Medicine
• Event Medicine:  There are multiple opportunities for residents to participate in event medicine, including providing emergency medicine support alongside EM faculty, for the Dallas Cowboys, Mavericks, and Stars.  Residents also can do event medicine for concert venues, and the Texas Motor Speedway.  The speedway has events with over 100,000 in attendance. 
• Electives: There are multiple opportunities for electives, including ENT where residents perform many scopes, OMFS where they practice regional blocks, etc.  Residents also may choose to do an expense-paid away rotation in international medicine in New Zealand in the EM3 year.