Our residency program is a three-year residency, fully accredited by the ACGME and the RRC, and we are currently approved to accept 14 residents per year. We precept four week rotations for medical students and for non-Emergency Medicine residents. Our mission is to provide a top-notch experience designed to prepare our graduates for the practice of Emergency Medicine at the highest level, from both a clinical and academic perspective.

Our educational program provides focused, in-depth didactic preparation combined with extensive clinical experience in a high-volume, high-acuity setting, with continual faculty supervision in a collegial and supportive environment. We have protected time for weekly Grand Rounds and monthly Journal Club and provide regular Trauma Lab exposure, as well as small-group instruction during twice-monthly breakout sessions with Emergency Medicine and affiliated faculty.

Our affiliations with local and regional EMS organizations allow our residents outstanding opportunities to gain experience in supervisory roles as resident medical directors, as well as through primary involvement in the education of paramedics and EMT’s.

Our base hospital, St. Vincent Mercy Medical Center, is a tertiary care facility serving the northwest Ohio and southeast Michigan region with a potential patient population of approximately 1,500,000 people, and it is one which offers a broad range of patient encounters.

The Emergency Department at St. Vincent Mercy Medical Center is a Level I Trauma Center with Pediatric Commitment, one of only two Level I facilities in the region; and it holds a current accreditation from the American College of Surgeons. The annual Emergency Department census is currently over 70,000 with a significant proportion of high-acuity patients presenting with a wide range of medical, surgical, pediatric, and gynecologic problems. Our EM2 and EM3 residents also rotate to St. Charles Mercy Hospital which is a community hospital emergency department with over 45,000 visits annually. St. Charles' Emergency Department offers a complementary experience in the community setting.

The Life Flight/Mobile Life Critical Care Transportation Network allows us to provide rapid access to helicopter and ground-based care and transport and is an integral and essential component of the residency. During their second and third years, our residents serve as the primary flight physicians and are responsible for the stabilization and treatment of patients during all first-call Life Flight responses. This may include action at trauma and other scene responses, as well as in other hospitals and emergency departments, prior to and during aeromedical or ground transport.

Our residents also assume an active and integral role in shaping the program. They share primary involvement in the process of interviewing and selecting candidates, in curriculum development, and in on-going education and research. Their input is vital to maintaining the high standards of the residency.

Here at the Emergency Medicine residency, we remain committed to the dual goals of delivering state-of-the-art emergency medical care while providing high-quality instruction and supervision in the science and the art of Emergency Medicine.

Randall W. King, M.D., FACEP
Program Director