Shifts rotate while in the Emergency Department, with a strong effort made to minimize stress of shift changes and maintain circadian rhythms (as well as following the ACGME Residency Duty Hours requirement.

Shift length is 10.5 hours. Shift start times are staggered throughout the day to provide optimum education for residents and coverage for the department.

PGY1 residents work 21 shifts per month
PGY2 residents work 20 shifts per month
PGY3 residents work 18 shifts per month
Residents have two weekends off per month when in the department.

Our weekly conferences are held on Thursday mornings from 8:00am until 1:30pm. Residents are excused from outside services and the ED for conference attendance.

Conference topics include: Resident Grand Rounds, faculty lectures, case conference, radiology conference, EMS reviews, outside lecturers, M&M, research conference, Critically Appraised Topics (CAT), Combined EM/Peds, EM/IM, and EM/Cardiology conferences. We also have Oral Board exam simulations quarterly.

Book Review occurs weekly and we review topics from Rosen's