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Instituted in 2001, the UAB Emergency Medicine Residency Program is an
integral portion of the professional life of the faculty and staff of
the emergency department at two component hospitals at the University
of Alabama at Birmingham Medical Center. The training of emergency medicine
housestaff, housestaff from other disciplines, medical students, nursing
students, and emergency medical technician students is one of the key
functions of the Department of Emergency Medicine, and ranks second in
importance only to the provision of direct patient care.
The goal of this program is to accomplish
the training of medical graduates in the wide variety of pathologic conditions
that are manifest in the Emergency Department setting, and to instill
the confidence and self-discipline necessary to enable our emergency medicine
residents to become competent Emergency Medicine specialists upon completion
of residency. Obviously, the emergency physician must be accomplished
in the presentation, treatment, and subsequent disposition of a wide spectrum
of patients varying from critical to minor in severity of illness or injury.
The breadth of medical knowledge required for the proper treatment of
such patients must be combined with an awareness of the psychological,
social, and other needs of Emergency Department patients. The emergency
physician with such experience becomes a true specialist in the efficient
diagnosis and therapy of human illness.
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