Academics

Residency Information
  • Overview
    • Carl R. Darnall Army Medical Center Emergency Medicine Residency Program
    • Three Year (EM1-2-3) Categorical Program. Fully accredited by ACGME
    • Located in central Texas, north of Austin
    • Ten residents per class
  • Facilities
  • Faculty
    • Full–time, EM–trained, board certified or board eligible faculty.
    • Military faculty possess extensive operational and combat experience, with most having deployed in various capacities, including Forward Surgical Resuscitative Teams, Battalion and Brigade surgeons, combat support hospitals and special operations.
    • Contract faculty physicians with extensive experience outside of the military health system.
    • Multiple oral board trainers for the American Academy of Emergency Medicine.
    • One oral board examiner for the American Board of Emergency Medicine.
    • Multiple fellowship trained staff to include;
      • 5 Ultrasound
      • 2 Emergency Medical Services
      • 2 Pediatric Emergency Medicine
      • 1 Critical Care
      • 1 Toxicologist
  • Academics
    • Unopposed residency. No competition for procedures or management of trauma patients.
    • Consistently some of the highest in-service training exam scores in the nation.
    • Strong didactic program with oral boards based morning report four days a week and five hours of lecture for weekly grand rounds.
    • Active research program with dedicated Research Director provides opportunities to publish and past residents have had numerous national conference presentations, including poster presentations and the annual SAEM CPC competition
    • Semiannual cadaver–based procedure lab and advanced airway management course.
    • Quarterly live tissue–based procedure lab.
    • Weekly simulator lab with elaborate 4-bed simulation center with some of the most advanced mannequin patient simulators available.
    • Robust ultrasound program with formal didactics and one month of ultrasound experience during the first year of residency, including time spent in radiology and echocardiography.
    • One of the few residencies in the nation to offer Advanced Wilderness Life Support (AWLS) program as a part of the core residency curriculum.
    • BLS, ATLS, ACLS and PALS provided for first–year residents.
    • Monthly journal clubs focusing on current evidence based medicine and research concepts.
    • Capstone multiday military medicine field scenario experience for graduating seniors. 
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