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Emergency Medicine (EM) is an exciting, diverse, challenging, and evolving medical specialty that focuses on the acute care of patients with all types of illnesses. EM physicians deliver a wide range of services involving both pre-hospital and hospital care. In any one shift, a physician may:
- give advice or on-site assistance to a paramedic
- direct a major trauma or medical resuscitation
- deliver a baby
- splint a broken limb
- direct the care of an acute myocardial infarction
In addition to being skilled in a variety of procedures, EM physicians must be able to recognize serious illness in the early, often benign-appearing stages.
These skills and knowledge are obtained through a broad-based training program that includes internal medicine, pediatrics, ob/gyn, anesthesia, general surgery and the surgical subspecialties.
The Department of Emergency Medicine at Penn offers a wide range of educational programs, including:
- Fellowships in a range of subspecialties
- Emergency medicine residency
- Occupational medicine residency
- Medical school courses, including courses for visiting students
- Undergraduate research opportunities
For medical student research opportunities and/or scholarly projects within our department, please contact Dr. Judd Hollander (hollandj@uphs.upenn.edu) or Dr. Robert Neumar (rneumar@mail.med.upenn.edu) with the Institute for Neurological Sciences.
