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Emergency Medicine

Emergency Medicine (EM) is an exciting, diverse, challenging, and evolving medical specialty that focuses on the acute care of patients with all types of illnesses. EM physicians deliver a wide range of services involving both pre-hospital and hospital care. In any one shift, a physician may give advice or on-site assistance to a paramedic, direct a major trauma or medical resuscitation, deliver a baby, splint a broken limb, or direct the care of an acute myocardial infarction. In addition to being skilled in a variety of procedures, EM physicians must be able to recognize serious illness in the early, often benign-appearing stages. These skills and knowledge are obtained through a broad-based training program that includes internal medicine, pediatrics, OB-gyn, anesthesia, general surgery and the surgical sub-specialties. The field of EM continues to expand, and sub-specialty fellowships are currently available in EMS, toxicology, pediatric EM, sports medicine, hyperbaric medicine, and emergency ultrasound.

Required:

The upper elective in Emergency Medicine at HUP

Highly recommended:

Cardiology
Critical Care/ICU
Infectious Disease
Radiology
Trauma Surgery

Helpful:

Anesthesiology
Dermatology
Ophthalmology
Otorhinolaryngology

To learn more about Penn's Department of Emergency Medicine visit their website at: http://www.uphs.upenn.edu/em/

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