The Department of Emergency Medicine strongly encourages applications from minority candidates who are under-represented in our specialty, including women, racial and ethnic minorities, and LGBTQ students. |
Message from the Program Director
Welcome to Emergency Medicine at Northwestern. I am pleased that you are interested in our program and we hope to give you some information and show you why we are proud of the training our residents receive.
Our program began in 1973 at Evanston Hospital. A few years later another Emergency Medicine program began at Northwestern's downtown campus, and the two combined shortly thereafter. In the early years of the program, graduates finished with dual training and certification in both Emergency Medicine and Internal Medicine. The dual training ended many years ago, but the strong bonds forged led to continued emphasis and involvement of the Emergency Medicine residents in Critical Care at Northwestern.
We currently have 50 residents in our program. This resident compliment of 12 residents per year allows us to match the volume of patients we see and enhance the resident/resident interactions and teaching that occurs between peers.
We are a four-year program and feel strongly that we use the four years to teach all aspects of emergency care and prepare our residents for careers in Emergency Medicine and prepare them to be leaders in the future. We try to place a strong emphasis on developing our residents in areas of expertise including administration, research, and education. We do this with a diversity of experiences, graduated responsibility and focus on developing the non-clinical side of your career. We are fortunate to be in a city of 6-million people that affords our residents many different experiences. Our residents spend most of their time downtown at Northwestern Memorial Hospital, but this training is complemented with experiences at Children’s Memorial Hospital located a few miles away, Gary Methodist Hospital, just over the Indiana border, Lake Forest Hospital in Chicago's northern suburbs, and Cook County Hospital. We feel this combination of hospitals provides our residents with an excellent combination of patient types, illnesses, and facilities.
Our residents are entrusted with critically ill patients and act as the senior resident with primary responsibility over the Intensive Care Units of Northwestern Memorial Hospital. This training is ideally suited and complementary to much of the care that occurs in the Emergency Department and our residents feel that it is an excellent addition to their training. Despite the fact that our program is 37 years old, we continue to strive to make it the best possible program and we work hard to adjust our rotations as medicine changes. We are fortunate to have an excellent faculty, outstanding facilities, interesting and challenging patients, and residents who make the program what it is. I hope that you will take a look at our program and we look forward to meeting you.
Michael Gisondi, MD
Residency Director,
Emergency Medicine Program
