Education

OUR

PGY - 1

Intern School

JULY

All first-year residents begin their training with a month-long orientation or “Intern School”. This includes formal didactic and practical laboratory sessions on foundational clinical and administrative topics, in addition to an abbreviated clinical schedule of 10-13 shifts. On these orientation shifts PGY1s are paired with a co-intern, as well as an extra senior resident who is there to aid the PGY1s in department flow.

MICU

4 weeks

Four weeks are spent in our 15 bed medical ICU along side our 17 bed step down ICU. Interns work on a collaborative team along side our pulmonary critical care fellows, ICU attending, and ICU pharmacist.

2 weeks

We rotate on 2 weeks of nights at St. Peters Labor and Delivery with the OB attending and a midwife. Here we get first shot all all deliveries as there are no other rotating residents.

Anesthesia

2 weeks

We spend two weeks at our south clinical campus out patient surgery center focusing on DL intubation skills along side anesthesia attendings and CRNAs.

Pediatric ED

4 Weeks

PGY1s spend an entire month of dedicated pediatric emergency medicine training during their first year. This is done alongside PEM trained attending in our dedicated pediatric ED. Following this month interns have longitudinal integration of pediatric EM with 1-2 dedicated shifts per month.

SICU

4 weeks

Four weeks is spent in our 30 bed combined surgical and neuro ICU. Here we will often be under the instruction of our own ED/Surgical critical care attendings as they rotate on service.

Ultrasound

2 weeks

Includes both hands on lecture based instruction and dedicated scanning time in the department alongside our US faculty honing our US skills. This block is done in the first 4 months of intern year to ensure competency during the remainder of intern year.

Ortho Consult

2 weeks

We spend two weeks with our orthopedic surgery residency colleagues responding to ED consults, to gain experience in reductions, splinting, casting and the overall management of ortho injuries.

PGY - 2

CCU

4 weeks

In the cardiac ICU we spend four weeks under the direction of Cardiologists and Cardiology fellows learning about MI care, dysthrithmias and severe heart failure.

PICU

4 weeks

Our PICU is a 19 bed combined general PICU and cardiovascular pediatric ICU. Here we manage pre and post opertive congenital hearts, severe respiratory distress, trauma, chronically vented children among other critically ill pediatric patients.

Toxicology

2 weeks

We rotate with our toxocology service that is made up of EM/Tox trained attendings including time on both our inpatient consult team and our outpatient addiction medicine clinic.

Pediatric ED Nights

Integrated

During our PGY2 year we cover all nights in the pediatric ED. This is an excellent time for our residents to grow in their skills since we are the only provider on with the attending at night. Here we learn how to manage an entire department as a single physician.

Selective

2 Weeks

Our two week selective is the choosing of the individual resident and has included things such as palliative care, sports medicine, community medicine, and additional away rotations in prospective fellowship areas.

REMO

Integrated

During our second year we take on the roll of Regional Emergency Medical Organization Physician which includes carrying the "REMO" phone on shift allowing a direct line from EMS to medical command, you, in the hospital.

PGY - 3

Community EM

4 Weeks

We spend 4 weeks at one of our community sites Saratoga Hospital located approximately 45 minutes north of Albany Med. Here we practice under a community attending physician in a hospital setting with far less resources then our tertiary care center, allowing us to gain knowledge and skills that are vastly different than the ones we gain at AMC.

Elective

4 weeks

PGY3 have a four week elective in an area of their choosing that can be done both within AMC health system or outside. People have done things such as wilderness medicine in various state parks, additional community medicine, toxicology, or our international elective in New Zealand.

Pediatric ED

Integrated

PGY3s have 2-3 integrated pediatric emergency medicine shifts a month.

Academic EM

4 weeks

This month consists of a sampling of administrative and academic experiences that exist as a part of an academic emergency medicine program. These experiences include shifts in the triage hot seat, rounding as the physician team lead in our ED observation unit, academic teaching shifts in our department with fourth year medical students, attending department administrative meetings, and ending with an M&M case presentation for the month.

Resident Conference

Protected time every Wednesday morning from 8 to 1
Resident and attending led lectures
Hands on components
Quarterly cadaver lab to practice infrequent procedures such as crics and lateral canthotomies
Quarterly SIMs
18 month system based curriculum
Residency provided EM core textbook of your choice
Theme days including critical care day, airway day, disaster day, tox teaching day