Emergency Medicine Residency
Mission & Vision
The University of Miami/Jackson Health System Emergency Medicine Residency Program, in affiliation with Holy Cross Hospital, is a three-year, ACGME-approved program that offers a comprehensive, patient-centered model designed to train compassionate and expert emergency medicine physicians and future leaders.
Our goal is to provide high-quality, individualized care to our community while advocating for quality, affordable healthcare for all, irrespective of race, gender, religion, creed or political convictions.
Our integrated residency trains EM residents to practice in both a high-volume
county/academic hospital system and high-acuity community site. This training model exposes our residents to a diverse patient population and a large variety of pathology. This breadth of exposure, along with high-quality simulation and didactics, prepares our residents to succeed in academic, county or community settings upon completion of their residency.
Mission & Vision
The University of Miami/Jackson Health System Emergency Medicine Residency Program, in affiliation with Holy Cross Hospital, is a three-year, ACGME-approved program that offers a comprehensive, patient-centered model designed to train compassionate and expert emergency medicine physicians and future leaders.
Our goal is to provide high-quality, individualized care to our community while advocating for quality, affordable healthcare for all, irrespective of race, gender, religion, creed or political convictions.
Our integrated residency trains EM residents to practice in both a high-volume
county/academic hospital system and high-acuity community site. This training model exposes our residents to a diverse patient population and a large variety of pathology. This breadth of exposure, along with high-quality simulation and didactics, prepares our residents to succeed in academic, county or community settings upon completion of their residency.
Program Director’s Welcome
We truly appreciate your interest in our program and look forward to showing you what makes us so proud of our Emergency Medicine Residency Program.
Program Director’s Welcome
We truly appreciate your interest in our program and look forward to showing you what makes us so proud of our Emergency Medicine Residency Program.
Established in the heart of Miami more than 100 years ago, Jackson Memorial Hospital is the largest public hospital in the nation with more than 1,550 beds and serves as the major teaching facility for the University of Miami Leonard M. Miller School of Medicine. Jackson Memorial is a safety-net hospital that serves the diverse population of Miami-Dade County, with an emergency department that sees an average of 120,000 patients annually. It is also home to Holtz Children’s Hospital, the Miami Burn Center, Miami Transplant Institute, and Ryder Trauma Center, the highest volume Level I adult and pediatric trauma center in Miami-Dade County.
Serving as the major academic and teaching hospital in South Florida, patients come to Jackson Memorial from all over the world for a level of care they cannot obtain elsewhere. When combined with the ED experience obtained at Holy Cross Hospital, a UM Miller School of Medicine-affiliated community site, our residents are truly exposed to a wide array of patients and pathology, which is essential for training as an EM resident.
Our EM faculty has decades of experience educating students, interns and residents and is dedicated to teaching, promoting and advancing emergency medicine. We combine our bedside teaching with multiple modalities of learning such as simulation, small group and didactics to prepare our residents to be excellent emergency medicine physicians. We are confident that our unique residency program is what you are looking for, and more.
Your exposure to emergency medicine will be like no other and the result will be an education and work readiness beyond compare. Not to mention the exciting and invigorating lifestyle Miami has to offer. Situated in one of the world’s premier destinations, we invite you to come see for yourself why patients, faculty and students from across the country and the world are drawn to Miami and the UM/Jackson Health System Emergency Medicine Residency Program!
-Christopher Freeman, MD, FACEP
Description
Serving as the major academic and teaching hospital in South Florida, patients come to Jackson Memorial from all over the world for a level of care they cannot obtain elsewhere. When combined with the ED experience obtained at Holy Cross Hospital, a UM Miller School of Medicine-affiliated community site, our residents are truly exposed to a wide array of patients and pathology, which is essential for training as an EM resident.
Our EM faculty has decades of experience educating students, interns and residents and is dedicated to teaching, promoting and advancing emergency medicine. We combine our bedside teaching with multiple modalities of learning such as simulation, small group and didactics to prepare our residents to be excellent emergency medicine physicians. We are confident that our unique residency program is what you are looking for, and more.
Your exposure to emergency medicine will be like no other and the result will be an education and work readiness beyond compare. Not to mention the exciting and invigorating lifestyle Miami has to offer. Situated in one of the world’s premier destinations, we invite you to come see for yourself why patients, faculty and students from across the country and the world are drawn to Miami and the UM/Jackson Health System Emergency Medicine Residency Program!
-Christopher Freeman, MD, FACEP
Fast Facts
Accreditation
Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education
Number of Residents per Year?
14
Duration of Residency?
3 years
Program Curriculum
Our education curriculum uses multiple modalities to engage adult learners and to maximize our time during conference. Our education days are Wednesday mornings and residents are protected from all non-ICU rotations. Those educational half days use procedural and case-based simulation, foundations of EM and small-group learning, lectures, readings and journal clubs to provide a comprehensive educational curriculum that covers the content of the EM model curriculum. In general our educational curriculum is 25 percent simulation, 25 percent foundations/small-group learning of EM and 50 percent lecture, during which we use multiple interactive formats to keep the learner engaged.
Year 1 (Internship)
The first year is focused on getting interns integrated into residency. The year begins with an orientation block where residents undergo BLS/ACLS/ATLS/PALS training as well as several workshops led by emergency department faculty, including basic and advanced airway, central venous access and suturing. This also includes ED shifts at Jackson Memorial Hospital and Holy Cross Hospital. Clinically, your internship year highlights common ED complaints and diagnoses, as well as associated management and dispositions. Additionally, a significant amount of time is spent teaching residents frequently used ED procedures including point-of-care ultrasound and orthopedic reductions.
Year 2
The second year focuses on the care of the complex patient. In addition to being in the ED, residents spend time in multiple ICUs to help develop essential skills required to manage critically ill patients. PGY-2 residents rotate in the critical care unit, neuroscience ICU and pediatric ICU. Attention is also dedicated to improving diagnostic and procedural skills in common, but more potentially difficult, ED complaints such as back pain, chest pain, dyspnea, headache and more.
Year 3
The third-year prepares residents for independent practice by training them to be able to “run the ED” themselves, in addition to encouraging leadership both inside and outside the ED. Patient flow, as well as patient metrics, are emphasized. Clinically, senior residents sharpen their acumen in recognizing when patients don’t “fit into a box” and develop advanced skills in the management of critically ill patients.
Your Faculty
Jeffrey N. Bernstein, MD, FACEP, FACMT, FAACT, DABCP
Director, Florida Poison Information Center
Mark Caputo, MD
Core Faculty and President, Holy Cross Emergency Physicians
Hector Chavez, MD
Director, Pediatric Emergency Medicine
Sara Cortes, MD
Director of medical education in pediatric Emergency Medicine
Patricia De Melo Panakos, MD
Assistant Director, Emergency Medicine Residency Program
Laura Eliseo, MD, MPH, FACEP
Core Faculty, Holy Cross Hospital
Christopher Freeman, MD, FACEP
Director, Emergency Medicine Residency Program
Jennifer S. Jackson, MD, FACEP
Director, Clerkship, Holy Cross Hospital
Lilly C. Lee, MD, SM, FACEP, FAAEM
Chief of Emergency Medicine and Director, Emergency Medicine Operations
Kelly Medwid, MD
Director, Emergency Medicine Simulation
Leila L. PoSaw, MD, MPH, FACEP
Director, Emergency Medicine Ultrasound
Mark Supino, MD, FACEP
Associate Director, Emergency Medicine Residency Program
Alumni Placements Include:
Baylor Scott & White Health
Boston Medical Center
Duke University
Envision Alumni Ambassador Program
Integrated Care Physicians
Harbor-UCLA Medical Center
Jackson Memorial Hospital
Jackson North Medical Center
Jackson South Medical Center
Regions Hospital
South Miami CritiCare
South Miami Hospital
Stanford University
United States Air Force at Brooke Army Medical Center
VA Greater Los Angeles Healthcare System
Vituity
Alumni Placements Include:
Baylor Scott & White Health
Boston Medical Center
Duke University
Envision Alumni Ambassador Program
Integrated Care Physicians
Harbor-UCLA Medical Center
Jackson Memorial Hospital
Jackson North Medical Center
Jackson South Medical Center
Regions Hospital
South Miami CritiCare
South Miami Hospital
Stanford University
United States Air Force at Brooke Army Medical Center
VA Greater Los Angeles Healthcare System
Vituity