Welcome to the Emergency Medicine Residency Program at the University of Alabama at Birmingham, one of the premier clinical, educational, and research institutions in the United States.

The program is designed to provide a challenging, hands-on patient care experience in the two emergency departments of UAB Hospital. The program conforms to all requirements specified by the Accreditation Council on Graduate Medical Education (ACGME) and is fully accreditated by the Residency Review Committee for Emergency Medicine.

The major clinical facility within the Medical Center is UAB Hospital, consisting of approximately 1,000 beds in multiple separate structures. The North Pavilion, opened in 2004, houses the University Emergency Department as well as a number of inpatient medical, surgical, and critical care beds and operating suites.

The second component Emergency Department is situated in Children's Hospital of Alabama, a 190-bed pediatric specialty hospital. With a combined volume of more than 123,000 pediatric and adult patients, the UAB Emergency Medicine Residency Program provides the resident with exposure to a broad and deep variety of critical and non-critical adult and pediatric illnesses and injuries. Through a carefully graduated learning experience, the resident is provided appropriate direction and teaching to many disease states first at a basic level, progressing to increased patient care responsibilities.

A community ED rotation during the second and third year of the residency program is located at Baptist Medical Center South in Montgomery, Alabama. This busy, urban community ED sees an undifferentiated population of adult and pediatric patients with a volume of approximately 50,000 patients per year.

With the construction of the state-of-the-art Emergency Department and the 850,000-square-foot health-care facility (North Pavilion) that opened in 2004, UAB now has treatment areas and facilities ready for the latest advances in medical technology. UAB's most recent addition, the Women and Infants Center (opened in 2010), provides comprehensive health care services for women at all stages of life from childbirth to menopause as well as special health concerns.

The Department of Emergency Medicine (a separate clinical department within the medical center) is composed of board-certified emergency physicians dedicated to the provision of patient care in the Emergency Department including all instructional, educational, and quality-assurance activities. Longevity among the faculty is excellent, with many of them working at UAB for more than 10 years.