Emergency Medicine Education Conference
Emergency Medicine Education Conference (EMEC) is held on Thursday mornings from 8:00 am to 12:00 pm, except during holidays or major Emergency Medicine conferences. The program consists of lectures, case presentations, reviews of core content and diagnostic skills, patient safety and quality improvement conferences, simulation sessions, procedural workshops, and small-group didactics.
These sessions are provided by our Emergency Medicine faculty as well as by visiting physicians from other institutions. We also regularly host lectures by faculty from various clinical departments at UPMC. Residents in their second and third years contribute to EMEC by delivering lectures on core content, literature-based clinical questions, and patient safety and quality improvement.
Additionally, the residency has an extensive asynchronous curriculum that residents participate in monthly.
Journal Club
Emergency Medicine Journal Club provides a forum for critical evaluation of the scientific literature in Emergency Medicine and an opportunity to review the scientific basis for managing emergency conditions. Journal Club is held on a Tuesday evening each month. During PGY-2, residents are responsible for developing a Journal Club presentation centered around a clinical question.
Core Didactic Series
The September Core Didactic Series is presented each year for the first-year emergency medicine residents. Lectures and workshops on the major areas of the emergency medicine core curriculum are presented over the course of the month.
In February, the Advanced Core Didactic Series is offered for second-year residents. This is a week-long course that includes hands-on interactive simulation labs, advanced EKG reading, and in-depth radiology, orthopedic, and ophthalmology workshops.