Core Conference Experience:

• Five Hours of protected time per week on Wednesday mornings from 7 a.m. to noon
• 7 a.m. to 8 a.m.: Intern curriculum: content and activities focused at intern level. Upper-level residents have asynchronous learning topic from 7 a.m. to 8 a.m. 
• 8 a.m. to noon: in-person didactics-all PGY levels

Conference highlights:

• Large state of the art conference rooms and simulation facilities (insert photos)
• Longitudinal simulation curriculum
• Interactive format
• Foundations of EM cased based small groups
• Mock oral board training
• Morbidity and Mortality Conference
• Journal Club
• Research Workshop

Procedural Training:

• Outstanding classroom-based procedure days to practice rare procedures
• Regular cadaver lab sessions

Intern Orientation:

• Bootcamp: One week prior to July 1
  • Essential topic lectures
  • Cadaver lab
  • Procedure and Airway practice
• Clinical:
  • 10 shifts (9-hours in length) in the ED; shifts are scheduled around educational lectures
  • Nursing shadow shift
• Educational:
  • Simulation cases
  • Central Line training
  • Ultrasound Bootcamp
  • Wednesday morning didactics
• Social:
  • KU EM Family Picnic
  • Mentorship Happy Hour
  • Adventure Event

All residents get 3 weeks of vacation per year.

PGY1

PGY2

Second years spend more time in the ED and complete most of the rest of the off-service rotations to allow maximum time in the ED third year. The elective rotation is the resident’s choice, in the past residents have done ICU, EMS elective including flight medicine, event medicine, advanced US, and international experiences*.

The PGY2 year includes the following:

• 7 months + 2 weeks EM
• 4 weeks CICU
• 4 weeks SICU/Trauma
• 4 weeks Peds EM at CMH
• 4 weeks Community EM at LMH
• 4 weeks Elective
• 2 weeks Anesthesia

PGY3

Third year residents spend the majority of their time in the emergency department. They spend one month as the teaching resident and participate in the medical student clerkship as an instructor. The teaching senior works day shifts in the department seeing patients with students and doing bedside teaching. We also have an admin/patient safety rotation so that graduating residents are more familiar with the inner workings of a department and health system.

The PGY3 year includes the following:

• 8 months EM
• 4 weeks Teaching Senior in the ED
• 4 weeks PICU
• 4 weeks Peds EM at CMH
• 4 weeks Admin/Patient Safety
• 4 weeks Elective

*Residents may arrange out-of-town or international electives at the discretion of the program director.

The University of Kansas Hospital - Kansas City, Kansas

Primary training site for the EM residency program. Level 1 Trauma Center, 3 helipads, adult and pediatric burn center, accredited chest pain center, NCI comprehensive cancer center, transplant center, and an advanced comprehensive stroke center. The nursing staff have maintained Magnet recognition since 2006. U.S. News & World Report has ranked The University of Kansas Hospital among the nation's best hospitals yearly since 2010. Consistently named the Best Hospital in Kansas City and the Best Hospital in Kansas. Rankings are based on reputation and patient outcomes data, including survival and safety.

Children's Mercy Hospital - Kansas City, Missouri

Children's Mercy Hospital (CMH) is nationally recognized for delivering high-quality, compassionate pediatric care. CMH is the only free-standing children's hospital between St. Louis and Denver and provide comprehensive care for patients from birth to 21. Children's Mercy consistently is ranked among the leading children's hospitals in the nation.

Lawrence Memorial Hospital - Lawrence, Kansas
Lawrence Memorial Hospital (LMH) is dedicated to providing personal and high-quality health and wellness services for the people of Lawrence and the extended community. At LMH, residents develop the ability to recognize, stabilize, and resuscitate the full range of patient conditions that present to a community emergency department.

During an Emergency Medicine residency at our main training site, The University of Kansas Health System, our residents learn the advanced ultrasound skills necessary to successfully implement ultrasound into the care of their patients. Rapid diagnosis and treatment in the critically ill is a necessity, and ultrasound has come to the forefront for both diagnostic and procedural intervention.

Students

Through the University of Kansas School of Medicine, the Emergency Department offers a 4-week clinical Emergency Ultrasound rotation to 4th-year medical students applying to Emergency Medicine residency. Students interested in participating in the rotation should contact Bradley Jackson, M.D. at bjackson2@kumc.edu.

Interns

Interns participate in a two-day Emergency Ultrasound course during orientation where they are introduced to the basics of clinical bedside ultrasound. These skills are further developed during an ultrasound rotation in the first year of residency through bedside training and clinical exams.

Senior Residents

Senior residents looking to further hone their skills and move to more advanced scans may participate in an elective rotation. This rotation allows the resident a month to focus on developing advanced skills in bedside ultrasound while performing clinical exams within the Emergency Department. Ultrasound skills also continue to progress through residency for our senior residents as they are highly encouraged to implement ultrasound into daily clinical practice.

Fellowship

We also offer fellowship training with an ultrasound focus for those who want to prepare themselves to be leaders within the Emergency Medicine community. During this year-long fellowship, fellows will continue to develop their ultrasound skills at the bedside, but the focus will be learning the skills necessary to administrate a successful ultrasound program.

More information on the fellowship can be found on the Society of Ultrasound Fellowships (SCUF) website. Interested applicants may also contact Bradley Jackson, M.D. at bjackson2@kumc.edu.

Residents propose and design a one-month elective rotation in their field of interest during years two and three.  Examples include event medicine where residents have the opportunity to work with the Kansas City Royals, Kansas City Chiefs, NASCAR, and certain T-Mobile Center events; hyperbaric medicine; advanced ultrasound; neuro ICU; ophthalmology; cardiac consults; air EMS; wilderness medicine; and international rotations.  Elective rotations are scheduled at the discretion of the program director.

Previous elective rotations include, but are not limited to:

• Event Medicine
• Emergency Ultrasound
• Emergency Ultrasound Administration
• Neurological ICU
• Cardiology Consultations
• Ophthalmology
• Air EMS
• Sports Medicine
• Research elective
• Hyperbarics/Observation Medicine
• Community Emergency Medicine
• International Rotation