Year Specific Curricula

Length: 2 weeks (2 weeks in the Adult ED complete this 4 week block)

Location: Crouse Hospital

Description: Provides residents with opportunities to develop airway management skills including bag-valve mask ventilation and endotracheal intubation. Residents have the opportunity to work one-on-one with anesthesia attendings.

Length: 2 weeks (2 weeks in the Adult ED complete this 4 week block)

Location: Clark Burn Center at University Hospital

Description: Provides residents with opportunities to work with the surgical burn team in the care and management of inpatient and outpatient burn victims, including operative care and extensive teaching in wound management.

Length: 4 weeks

Location: University Hospital

Description: Residents serve as interns on the Cardiology service and gain perspective on the issues faced during the management of adult cardiac patients after they are admitted to the telemetry unit or cardiac care unit. Skills developed include ECG interpretation, management of congestive heart failure and myocardial infarction.

Length: 4 weeks

Location: University Hospital

Description: Newly created in 2007, the EMS rotation allows PGY-1 residents to experience how prehospital care is delivered in the Central New York region. There is sufficient flexibility in the EMS schedule to allow the rotation to be tailored to the resident's previous EMS experience as well as fostering any particular interests the resident may have within EMS. The resident will gain experience with private for-profit, non-profit volunteer, and fire based systems. While not required, air medical experience is also available. During the year, based on interest and availability, there are opportunities to explore tactical, wilderness, and mass gathering EMS. For those that do not have previous EMS experience this rotation allows these residents to develop a baseline understanding of prehospital care and how it relates to the practice of Emergency Medicine. For those that come to us with previous EMS experience, this rotation allows them to gain insight into how the system works in our region, to explore the role of the physician in the field, and to discover specialty areas of EMS.

Length: 4 weeks

Location: St. Joseph's Hospital

Description: Provides residents with opportunities to develop assessment and management skills pertaining to the adult patient with non-surgical complaints. Residents serve as interns on the General Internal Medicine Service and gain perspective on the issues faced during the management of adult patients after they are admitted from the Emergency Department.

Length: 4 weeks

Location: St. Joseph's Hospital

Description: Provides residents with opportunities to develop assessment and management skills specific to the pregnant female. The resident functions as part of the Labor and Delivery team. Responsibilities include initial triage and management of the pregnant female, assisting the mother-to-be with vaginal delivery of her newborn and assisting the attending obstetrician with surgical cases.

Length: 4 weeks

Location: University Hospital

Description: Provides residents with opportunities to develop assessment and patient management skills specific to the orthopedic patient. Skills are developed in the inpatient, outpatient, and ED setting, including assessment and management of orthopedic injuries and proper techniques for immobilization using a variety of splinting materials.

Elective opportunities at SUNY Upstate EM are flexible and can be tailored to the individual interests of the resident. Elective rotations residents have completed in the past include:

• International Medicine:
• ED Ultrasound
• Emergency Medical Services, including ground and air-based services
• Ophthalmology

Length: 4 weeks

Location: Crouse Hospital

Description: Provides residents with opportunities to function as the senior resident on an ICU team. Working in a newly designed 22-bed Intensive Care Unit, residents are responsible for admission and inpatient care of critically ill patients. The schedule requires in-house call every three nights and provides an autonomous learning environment.

Length: 4 weeks

Location: Central New York Poison Center

Description: Provides residents with opportunities to work closely with certified toxicologists to ensure appropriate care and management of the poisoned patient. Clinical rounds are performed on patients at local hospitals. In addition, residents follow cases from hospitals throughout a large catchment area of northern and western New York by telephone. A weekly case conference and daily lectures are provided by certified toxicologists.

Length: 4 weeks

Location: Variable

Description: Residents are responsible for conflict resolution, sick call, orientation of off-service residents to the department, scheduling conflicts, and providing lectures to medical students and fellow residents.

Elective opportunities at SUNY Upstate EM are flexible and can be tailored to the individual interests of the resident. Elective rotations residents have completed in the past include:

• International Medicine:
• ED Ultrasound
• Emergency Medical Services, including ground and air-based services
• Ophthalmology

Length: 4 weeks

Location: University Hospital

Description: Provides residents with opportunities to function as the senior resident on a Pediatric ICU team responsible for admission and inpatient care of critically ill pediatric patients in a busy regional children's hospital. Schedule is Monday through Friday with an exceptional clinical experience obtained through daily rounds with well-known Pediatric Intensivists.