MCW Emergency Medicine Residency Curriculum

EM Curriculum Details

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EM-1

In the EM-1 year, interns gain essential emergency medicine knowledge and procedural skills, while working primarily on the Green Team alongside a senior resident on a teaching shift. This fosters guided, graduated growth in clinical care, team leadership and resuscitation management. Three weeks of vacation are included.

Orientation (1 month)
Adult Emergency Medicine (3 months)
Pediatric Emergency Medicine (1 month)
Adult Anesthesia/Clement J. Zablocki VA Medical Center (2 weeks)
Medical ICU (1 month)
Pediatric ICU (1 month)
Trauma Surgery (1 month)
Neurosurgical ICU (1 month)
Emergency Dentistry (2 weeks)
Ultrasound (2 weeks)
Labor & Delivery (1 month)

EM-2

The EM-2 year emphasizes advanced clinical responsibility, with residents managing higher patient volumes and multiple critically ill patients. As radio control physicians for the Milwaukee County EMS system, EM-2s direct real-time care during acute prehospital emergencies. All residents receive protected travel time to attend the SAEM national conference, regardless of their rotation schedule.

Emergency Medicine (Froedtert Hospital, VA Medical Center, Children's Wisconsin) (7 months)
Community Emergency Medicine (Froedtert Menomonee Falls Hospital) (1 month)
Toxicology (1 month)
Surgical ICU (1 month)
Pediatric Anesthesia (2 weeks)
Medical ICU (1 month)

EM-3

In the EM-3 year, residents build on their senior leadership role, managing multiple resuscitation bays and overseeing department flow. They develop their educational skills, managing off-service interns rotating in the ED. They also have a protected week to travel to the AAEM national conference.

Emergency Medicine (Froedtert Hospital, VA Medical Center, Children's Wisconsin, Froedtert Menomonee Falls) (10 months)
Ultrasound (2 weeks)
Elective (1 month)

On-Campus Electives

Administration & Operations
Cardiac ICU
Critical Care Pharmacy
Disaster & Event Medicine
Education
Ophthalmology
Palliative Care
Research
Sports Medicine

EM Simulation Curriculum

The resident simulation curriculum is designed to give residents exposure to a variety of cases, procedures, and emergency medicine skills to help develop their clinical practice.

The current simulation curriculum spans the 12-month academic year with a dedicated conference day each month. Our simulation days utilize the four simulation centers listed above, with residents splitting up between 2-3 sites each month. This allows small groups of 3-6 learners per simulation and maximize hands-on experience. The curriculum is designed to target residents’ specific skill levels during training with escalation of roles and advanced skills each year.

In addition, the simulation team collaborates with other departments, including emergency medical services, neonatology, obstetrics and gynecology, trauma surgery, and neurology, to provide interprofessional scenarios for residents.

Finally, with a large simulation staff and multiple training centers, residents can experience simulation “on the other side” with the developing and running simulation cases if they are interested in learning more.

Emergency Medicine Simulation Center Curriculum

EM Simulation Differentiators

Immersive Interprofessional, Multidisciplinary Simulation Education

Unlike traditional simulation centers that may focus on a specific field or discipline, our center creates realistic scenarios that bring together professionals from various fields to collaboratively address complex situations.

This approach not only enhances individual skill proficiency but also fosters teamwork and communication across different specialties.

Utilization of Multiple Simulation Centers for Milestone Competency

Our residency utilizes four simulation centers, each with different technological and innovative capabilities. This allows our simulation faculty to design simulations to meet resident milestones whether they are common or high-acuity, low-occurrence (HALO) scenarios, or standard emergency medicine cases. This includes procedural, patient care, and teamwork/communication competencies. The residency program emphasizes incorporating social determinants of health into patient care throughout the emergency department. Our simulation team collaborates with the Global and Population Health division, Drs. Sonnenberg and Pavlic, to incorporate social and population determinants of health into learning objectives for our simulation sessions to further this training.