Emergency Medicine Residency
Virtual Recruitment for the 2020-21 season
We wish you the very best in this recruitment season,
Residency Program Director
Associate Professor
Department of Emergency Medicine
University of New Mexico
Why UNM?
Our unique patient mix is a cornerstone of our program - a result of our history as first the Bernalillo County Indian Hospital, then the county hospital, and our current status as the state's academic referral center, only Level 1 trauma center, and safety net hospital. Our program founders conceived of a community project for every resident that would provide a connection to those they were serving, and this tradition continues today. They also had a vision of critical care as a defining feature of emergency medicine and created a curriculum to reflect that. Our first dual-trained EM intensivist returned to the institution in 2006. We now have the largest cohort of EM dual-trained intensivists in the country who are all within our department. Most of these faculty practice in both the ED and our ICU's, so residents work with them in both settings. Another spearheaded our innovative ED Resuscitation Unit initiative that has elevated ED resuscitation care and brought "upstairs care downstairs". More recently, Extra Corporeal Membrane Oxygenation (ECMO) was instituted in the ED, and we now have a pre-hospital ECMO team that has has the capability to retrieve from the most remote corners of the state. Our Critical Care track residents train to gain expertise in cannuluation and ECMO physiology.
We have had strong roots in EMS from the start. Bernalillo County EMS is the state's largest agency and one of our founding faculty was the medical director before our residency started. Lifeguard, the UNMH air ambulance service, started at about the same time, and just recently became one of the few non-profit air-medicine services in the country. Being a rural state with multiple pre-hospital EMS agencies can be challenging, but also creates a huge opportunity. Our faculty hold medical directorships for the majority of the agencies in the state, including our UNM-based Lifeguard Air Emergency Services, several tribal EMS agencies, and Grand Canyon National Park. Our ACGME-accredited fellowship along with our EMS Consortium Physician Field Response program allows us to give residents a rich EMS experience during our core 3-year longitudinal curriculum or a more focused EMS specialty track.
Our faculty are national experts in Wilderness, Austere, Disaster and International Emergency Medicine. We also have a nationally recognized Wilderness, Improvisational and International Medicine clerkship each spring that residents can selectively participate in if they are on a rotation that allows flexibility. Our Wilderness Medicine group runs the Diploma in Mountain Medicine course that is endorsed by major international mountaineering and rescue organizations. This course has been attended by multiple residents, fellows and faculty.
We are also nationally known for our unique location and culture, an innovative simulation center, injury prevention research, disaster and international medicine. Our Office of Medical Education is well-supported and much beloved in organizing our residents, fellows and academic faculty.