Welcome
Welcome to the Truman Medical Center/University of Missouri-Kansas City School of Medicine Emergency Medicine Residency. We are very proud that the Residency Review Committee in Emergency Medicine selected our program to be a part of a pilot of strong residency programs receiving 8 year accreditation from the Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education (ACGME) (instead of the traditional 3 to 5 year accreditation cycle). We are accredited until September of 2013.
The mission of our residency program is to cultivate compassionate and competent emergency medicine specialists through a comprehensive training program that emphasizes the development of a superior knowledge base, procedural skills proficiency, and excellent teaching skills. Our commitment is to train emergency medicine residents in compliance with ACGME standards to: provide excellent Patient Care, obtain superior Medical Knowledge, understand and utilize Practice-Based Learning and Improvement, express superior Interpersonal and Communication Skills, exhibit Professionalism at all times, and understand and utilize System-Based Practice.
One of our greatest strengths is the amount of resident input into the curriculum and program. We meet with residents monthly to discuss issues to facilitate quality improvement of the residents’ educational experience, both in didactic sessions as well as clinical rotations. Some recent examples of changes that were initiated from these discussions include: development of critical care medicine and trauma intensive care rotations for our residents, adding a fourth month of emergency medicine in the first year, expansion of our cadaver lab experience, and increased use of interactive, adult learning strategies in our didactics. Our program is committed to on-going performance improvement of our residents. We feel that as a resident you can’t improve unless you know what to work on; so we strive to give frequent and meaningful feedback to residents and work with residents to individualize their performance improvement plans.
Our faculty’s commitment to resident education, both at the bedside and during weekly didactics, is another strength. Many faculty are active members and leaders in the hospital and medical school and are involved in emergency medicine at the community and national level.
The UMKC School of Medicine requires senior medical students to rotate in our emergency department which fosters our residents as teachers. Our residents also serve as ACLS instructors for all specialty residents, house staff, and students at UMKC.
All in all, I think it is a great time to be an emergency medicine resident at Truman Medical Center/University of Missouri-Kansas City School of Medicine!
Sincerely,
Christine Sullivan, M.D., F.A.C.E.P
Assistant Professor
Emergency Medicine Program Director