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| 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. First of all, a little history, Emergency Medicine at Northwestern started in 1973 at Evanston Hospital. A few years later a program started downtown at Northwestern and the two combined shortly thereafter. In the early years of the program graduates would finish 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 43 residents in our program. We were recently approved approved for a resident compliment of 12 residents per year. The increase will allow us to better 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 combination of diversity of experiences, graduated responsibility and focus on developing the non-clinical side of your career as well. 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 Evanston Hospital in the northern suburbs, Children’s Memorial Hospital located a few miles away, Glenbrook Hospital and a couple of months spent at Cook County Hospital. We feel this combination of hospital 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 both Northwestern and Evanston Hospitals. 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 32 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.
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