Program Overview

The EM residency is a three-year training program, which became accredited in 2018. The inaugural intern class began in July 2019. We started small with 6 residents for our first 3 classes, but have since expanded our complement, initially to 8 and now to 10 positions per year. The EM training is primarily based at EMC emergency department (ED), one of the busiest, highest acuity and top-rated hospitals in California with over 85,000 visits per year. We are a stroke and STEMI cardiac receiving center, with a full complement of on-call specialty physicians. The nursing and ancillary support staff is truly outstanding. The support for GME starts at the highest level of hospital leadership and provides for a superlative educational experience. Eisenhower Health is the premier medical institution providing lifesaving and community care to the Coachella Valley in Riverside County, California.

The EM residency is a three-year training program, which became accredited in 2018. The inaugural intern class began in July 2019. We started small with 6 residents for our first 3 classes, but have since expanded our complement, initially to 8 and now to 10 positions per year. The EM training is primarily based at EMC emergency department (ED), one of the busiest, highest acuity and top-rated hospitals in California with over 85,000 visits per year. We are a stroke and STEMI cardiac receiving center, with a full complement of on-call specialty physicians. The nursing and ancillary support staff is truly outstanding. Our EM faculty comes from an extremely diverse training background, from medical schools, residencies, and fellowships throughout the country. You will gain from this broad training background by learning many different practice management perspectives. All of the attending providers are extremely supportive of our training program. We have an amazing team of faculty, including experts in ultrasound, social emergency medicine, EMS, toxicology, education, simulation, quality and informatics. We have EM fellowships in Ultrasound and Education, and host Medical Students for sub-I EM clerkships, EM ultrasound rotations, and now Toxicology as well.

The top-notch clinical experience you will gain at our busy community site is augmented by rotations at a premier pediatric tertiary care center, Children’s Hospital Los Angeles. Our residents spend one month each year rotating there for pediatric emergency medicine, as well as a rotation in the pediatric ICU and pediatric cardiac care unit. All housing and logistical needs for this time away are covered by the program.

One of the unique features of the program is the balance it provides between a very busy community hospital ED, but also with a firmly established and developed graduate medical education infrastructure. The support for GME starts at the highest level of hospital leadership and provides for a superlative educational experience. Our GME department manages over 100 learners each year, including from additional residencies in Family Medicine and Internal Medicine as well as additional fellowships in Infectious Disease, Pulmonology , Sports Medicine, Geriatrics and Addiction Medicine.

Our practice environment is ideal for EM residents to gain experience working with highly trained attending physicians from many different specialities, while still primarily managing patients on their own, given the lack of extensive in-house specialty consultant residency services. Our EM program is “unopposed”, with no other procedurally focused residencies in the hospital. Not only do EM residents get access to extensive procedural experience in the department, they also respond to the rest of the hospital for many procedures as well. Our residents cover all airway codes throughout the hospital, and also cover for critical venous access procedures such as central venous access, ultrasound guided peripheral lines, and emergent temporary hemodialysis catheter placement overnight.

At EMC you will become highly trained in performing all lifesaving critical ED procedures, you will participate in one of the best point-of-care ultrasound training programs in the country and you will have an extremely engaging EM high-fidelity simulation of real patient cases tailored to your training level. We have a balanced mixture of experienced community attending physicians highly motivated to teach residents with several physicians with extensive university-based teaching experience. By training at EMC, you will benefit from the best of both perspectives.

We know residency is a critical time in your development. We believe it should be the most memorable time in your professional life. We strive to provide the highest quality education, while maintaining your wellness and personal health.

I look forward to meeting you and getting to know you.