Third Year Curriculum

Regions Emergency Department

• 38.2 weeks
• Responsibility for managing the clinical and administrative aspects of the department under faculty supervision
• Responsibility for supervising and teaching medical students and junior residents from other services
• Responsibility for all pediatric and medical resuscitations
• Responsibility for airway management in trauma activations
• PGY-3 emergency medicine residents will work approximately 48 hours per week.

Surgical Intensive Care Unit

• 5.8 weeks
• Resident has the same responsibility as PGY-3 surgical residents during trauma team activations
• Resident has opportunities to direct and manage trauma resuscitations under supervision of Trauma Fellow, Surgical or Emergency Medicine staff

ED Selective

• 4 weeks
• Ccommunity experience at one of three area hospitals.

Elective Rotations

• 4 weeks
• Electives are available in the following areas:
  • ENT
  • Ophthalmology
  • Burns
  • Hand Service
  • Radiology
  • EMS
  • Research
  • International
  • Plastics
  • Cardiology

Pediatric Emergency Medicine Department

• 4 weeks integrated into adult experience
• Treatment of pediatric patients with emergency and urgent medical and surgical problems
• St. Paul Children's Hospital