Summary of Educational Experience

The Macon Piedmont emergency medicine (EM) curriculum is designed to cover essential EM topics from the American Board of Emergency Medicine Qualifying Exam and as defined by the Model of Clinical Practice of EM Guidelines. The goal of our residency program is to produce outstanding physicians who are capable of functioning at the highest level in all types of practices from community emergency departments to academic centers. This goal is achieved by providing an outstanding learning environment in the classrooms, labs and at bedsides for our residents. Bedside teaching, flipped classroom, small group experience and formal conference curriculum are all an integral part of the resident experience. Our residents develop a superior fund of knowledge both by directly caring for our diverse patient population under the supervision of attending physicians and from our strong didactic program.

The integral part of our didactic program is a weekly 4-hour emergency medicine and 1-hour multidisciplinary conference that is held on almost every Wednesday from 8:00 AM to 1PM. Some Wednesdays are dedicated for labs, simulations, subspecialty days, research presentations, asynchronous learning, and block topics outside of the classroom (as outlined in the documents provided). The didactic conferences consist of interactive small group sessions on core EM topics, journal club, wellness, DEI, departmental morbidity & mortality conference, resident-lead case presentations, grand rounds lectures, guest medical experts around the world sessions, and oral board sessions. In addition to interactive small group sessions, residents participate in residency gamification challenges such as Kahoot that test asynchronous learning. The multidisciplinary conferences occur 12-1pm and focus on quality improvement, patient safety, team building, communications, wellness and research. On select Wednesdays, our residents attend regional/state conferences and select events that focus on subspecialties such as ultrasound, tactical, EMS, Disaster, wilderness, etc. Every month we try to devote most of the instruction on emergency medicine core topic subjects and supplement these lectures and cases with required readings and assigned Rosh review questions that test these topics.

Our faculty are required to each attend 20% of the conferences as well as required to present between 6-12 hours of instruction (lectures, labs, mentorship, etc.). We provide a virtual lecture monthly that allows experts from all over the world to present emergency medical related topics as well as allow away rotators and medical students to attend. We also have several mechanisms to test emergency medicine resident competence by providing mock in training written exam, oral board exam, simulation testing for procedural and resuscitative competence as well as allowing residents to participate in emergency medical competitions (wilderness, disaster, ultrasound, etc.).

Rotation description

• Emergency Medicine, Piedmont Macon Medical Center
• Emergency Medicine, Piedmont Macon North Medical Center
• CHOA – Children’s Hospital of Atlanta
• Trauma – Memorial Health University Medical Center, level 1 trauma hospital in Savannah
• PICU – Memorial Health University Medical Center, Pediatric ICU in Savannah
• Anesthesia – Piedmont Macon Medical Center
• OB – Piedmont Macon Medical Center
• Ortho – Piedmont Macon North Medical Center
• MICU – Piedmont Macon Medical Center
• Augusta Peds - Medical College of Georgia Peds EM Augusta
• Tox/EMS – elective with EM shifts
• SICU – Surgical/Trauma ICU Savannah
• Elective

Block Schedule