What hospitals have good emergency medicine residency programs?
Most of the ER programs are very good. The best advice I can give you pertaining to this is to select a residency that is as similar as possible to the community in which you eventually intend to practice. The big dichotomy here is: are most of its patients derived from the inner city, or the suburbs? I trained in an inner-city program, and that was a big mistake because all the ERs I worked in after residency were either in the suburbs or in rural, tourist areas. The patients seen in those areas are very different. Obviously, in the inner city we saw lots of traumasome of which was almost unimaginable. In the suburbs or rural/tourist ERs there was less trauma and more medical cases . . . and more really goofy cases (the overwhelming majority of the bizarre cases in my first book came from suburban ERs). When people in the inner city go to the ER, they usually have a good reason for doing that except for a few who feign an illness in order to obtain narcotics. Surprisingly, more suburb
