Letter from the Chief Residents

Bjorn Peterson, MD

Welcome to the Regions Emergency Medicine Residency Website!  Please explore and let us know if you have any questions, or would like to come for a visit.  We’re excited about all that is happening here this year!

Here at Regions, we pride ourselves on our ability to evolve as the world of medicine changes. We have made a concerted effort to involve our residents in quality and performance improvement projects, and this exposure is critical with the growing focus on quality metrics and evidence based healthcare delivery.  We also have an administrative curriculum that allows the ROD, or resident of the day, a chance to experience the administrative side of emergency medicine and the hospital as a whole. This too is critical to preparing to practice in our increasingly dynamic healthcare system.

We have expanded our educational opportunities with focused, “back to the basics” teaching at morning sign-out and by inviting more consultants to participate in Critical Case, our signature interactive teaching session during Thursday morning conference.

We are continuing the longitudinal integrated intern rotation involving anesthesia/ultrasound (affectionately known as "ultrasthesia").  We also have fantastic exposure to Toxicology, Pediatric Emergency Medicine, Quality and EMS throughout our three years of training, as our program is affiliated with fellowships in each of these areas.

We also continue to have the excellent critical care experience that is a key component of our training – through 6 weeks in the SICU every year, 1 month in the MICU 1st and 2nd year, and caring for critically ill medical and trauma patients in the ED.

And, as always, we have lots of clinical exposure and great faculty teaching in an environment that is challenging yet supportive, helping us grow to provide excellent health care to our patients in the ED and to our community.

We love our experience here and are excited to share about it, so please get in touch if you want to find out more!  Thanks for visiting!

Bjorn Peterson, MD
JR Walker, MD
Casey Woster, MD
Chief Residents