What formal didactics are offered?
The core didactic curriculum is presented Wednesday mornings. All of our residents have protected time to attend weekly teaching conference including those rotating on non EM services. Residents are freed from clinical responsibilities to attend a 5 ½ hour teaching conference. The current didactic schedule can be found on this site. In general, the weekly offerings consist of a Mortality and Morbidity Conference, a lecture by an Emergency Medicine Resident, a faculty lecture, and a review of the week’s modular reading curriculum. Reading Review has been a valuable addition to the curriculum and covers the Clinical Model of Emergency Medicine in two years. In addition, there is a monthly research conference, Grand Rounds, radiology conferences, EKG conferences, and Journal Clubs. In total 80% of the Educational Conferences are departmental conferences, 10% are journal clubs, 5% are seminars and discussion groups, 3% are laboratories, and 2% are joint conferences sponsored with other dis
