The Yale-New Haven Medical Center Emergency Medicine Residency Program was established in the tradition of Yale University:  to educate and promote leaders in the field while furthering the pursuit of research and academia.  To this goal, the founders set out in 1990 to lay the groundwork for starting a premier emergency medicine residency training program.  The recruitment of diverse faculty skilled in the art and science of emergency medicine began, as well as the careful planning of a dynamic curriculum, resulting in the formation of the YNHH Emergency Medicine Residency Program.

The program officially gained accreditation in 1995 and enrolled its first class of residents in June 1996. Our four year program currently accepts twelve residents per year.

Our mission is to provide comprehensive, state-of-the-art training to prepare clinically superior, academically-oriented leaders in emergency medicine. This is accomplished through training at tertiary care, level one, academic and community emergency departments.  Emergency department ultrasound, pre-hospital medicine, toxicology, simulation medicine, international health, pediatric emergency medicine, trauma, and extensive critical care training are emphasized.

With the goal of training tomorrow’s leaders in emergency medicine, the faculty at Yale is carefully selected to include scholars with not only academic expertise, but also having an unwavering commitment to the promotion and advancement of emergency medicine.  All faculty members are board-certified or board eligible in emergency medicine.  The faculty has trained at many of the leading residency programs in the United States, and a large number have completed fellowships in emergency medicine subspecialties.  Many have residency training in internal medicine, general surgery, and pediatrics in addition to their emergency medicine.  The Yale Emergency Medicine faculty is comprised of nationally recognized experts in disaster medicine, emergency medical services, toxicology, critical care medicine and ultrasound.

Faculty interests and expertise are as wide and diverse as the field of emergency medicine itself.  With many research projects in all stages of progress, the faculty are involved in institution-based as well as large, multi-center investigations.  One highlighted program established by the emergency medicine faculty is the New Haven Regional Injury Prevention program, which serves to track injuries as well as to promote public safety. Current areas of research interest include injury prevention, alcohol screening/intervention and substance abuse programs, ultrasound, pre-hospital medicine, and toxicology.  The faculty members at Yale are also active at a national level in leadership roles in organizations such as the American College of Emergency Physicians (ACEP), the Society for Academic Emergency Medicine (SAEM), the National Association of EMS Physicians (NAEMSP) and the American Public Health Association (APHA).

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