Why does FDR feel that residency training is so important?
We believe that those best capable of working in an emergency department are those that have been trained in the specialty. The training in emergency medicine is unique since it deals with identifying and managing emergency aspects of all medical disciplines. Emergency medicine training includes significant time in medicine, pediatrics, orthopedics, toxicology, trauma, and intensive care. All those now trained in emergency medicine become proficient in emergency ultrasound for identifying such emergencies as ruptured ectopic pregnancy, ruptured abdominal aneurisms, intra abdominal bleeding in trauma (see below), and pericardial effusions. Included in this booklet are published studies demonstrating clear differences with emergency medicine training. The pictures on the left show an Emergency Physician making a rapid bedside diagnosis of intraperitoneal blood with ultrasound in a trauma patient. This saves time in the critical patient. We use this technology at all of the emergency depa
