PGY-1

This is a week-long course when you arrive, getting you acclimated to Charlottesville and the hospital system.

• PGY-1 residents as well as Internal Medicine, Family Practice, OB/GYN, Psychiatry, & Surgery work in the Emergency Department
• Shifts for EM residents include the adult, rapid medical evaluation, and pediatric portions of the UVA ED.
• Approximately 17-20 shifts a month
• Shifts are generally 10 hrs. during the day and 12 overnight.

• Work with an upper level IM resident
• Medical Intensive Care Unit (MICU)  caring for acutely ill patients
• Allows for many invasive procedures & complex resuscitations throughout the rotation

• Rotation dedicated to the recognition and management (ED and in-patient) of toxicological emergencies.
• Rounding on relevant hospitalized patients, responding to toxicological emergencies in the ED and ICUs, and working with the staff at the Blue Ridge Poison Control Center compromise the bulk of this month.

• Entails care for a broad spectrum of disease in ward (non-ICU) patients
• Gain experience managing COPD, CHF, pneumonia, & other common hospital illnesses.

This rotation is a great way to build relationships with the residents you will be working closely with the next 3 years and understand what happens to our patients after they are admitted.

This rotation is with our trauma surgeons in the Trauma ICU.

• You are paired with a PGY-3 EM resident and a PGY-2 surgery resident.
• You respond to trauma alerts in the ED during the day, while managing the acutely ill patients in the ICU with the trauma team.
• Actively involved in the diagnostic workup of all major trauma patients.

• Work in the OR with an upper level anesthesia resident or a CRNA.
• Experience in intubations, rapid sequence induction, & starting lines are the main focuses of this rotation.

By the end of this rotation, you should have your required amount of intubations to meet your residency requirement and the experience to perform them in the ED.

• Week 1 – spent riding in an observer capacity with Charlottesville Fire and Green County Rescue ground EMS units.
• Week 2 – spent in a similar capacity with Pegasus Air Critical Care Transport.

• Practice emergency sonography skills, with particular focus on the FAST exam, gallbladder & aorta scans.
• Begins with a didactic curriculum followed by clinical practice at patients’ bedside in the Emergency Department.