Einstein Medical Center Montgomery
With humanity , humility and honor, to heal by providing exceptionally intelligent and responsive healthcare and education for as many as we can reach.
With humanity , humility and honor, to heal by providing exceptionally intelligent and responsive healthcare and education for as many as we can reach.
Einstein Medical Center Montgomery (EMCM) is located on 87 acres in East Norriton, PA. EMCM is a new facility that was built and opened in 2012 to expand access to care within Middle Montgomery County. It is licensed for 171 beds, featuring 22 ICU beds, 20 maternity beds, and a 9-bed Level III NICU aligned to provide neonatal, newborn, and pediatric emergency services in a unique alliance with the Children's Hospital of Philadelphia (CHOP). EMCM also has a 41-bay Emergency Department with an additional 20-patient ED Observation Unit. EMCM brings exceptional clinical and academic expertise to a diverse patient population.
Rotations Completed Here: EM, MICU, Radiology/ED Ultrasound, Ortho, and OBGYN.
St. Christopher's Hospital for Children is a pediatric acute care hospital located in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. It is one of three Level 1 Pediatric Trauma Centers in the state of Pennsylvania. The hospital has 188 beds and is affiliated with both the Drexel University College of Medicine and the Temple University School of Medicine. The hospital provides comprehensive pediatric specialties and subspecialties to pediatric patients aged 0–21 throughout eastern Pennsylvania and is one of the oldest full-service hospitals in the United States totally dedicated to the care of children. St Christopher’s sees 75,000 pediatric ED visits per year and is the only exclusive pediatric burn unit in the region.
Rotations Completed Here: Peds EM.
Plymouth Ambulance, known as Montgomery County Medic 308, responds to an average of 15,000 emergency calls for service annually. This call volume makes Plymouth Ambulance the busiest ambulance squad in Montgomery County. It is located within 10 minutes of Einstein Montgomery. Einstein is a primary destination facility.
Rotations Completed Here: EMS.
Thomas Jefferson University Hospital has been an accredited Level 1 Regional Resource Trauma Center in Philadelphia and a referral center for multiple suburban communities and trauma centers in the region to treat a wide variety of trauma-related conditions including burn. The burn center rounds out a complement of surgical and trauma services offered at Jefferson, as well as outpatient acute care. It is among few programs of its kind in the Delaware Valley to be located in a Level 1 Trauma Center where emergency cases can be transported around-the-clock from the scene or from other hospitals. It is also one of only a few burn facilities in the area to be affiliated with an academic medical center, giving our residents an excellent educational experience.
Rotations Completed Here: Burn ICU.
Located in North Philadelphia, this is one of the busiest Level 1 Trauma Center in city. The hospital serves a diverse urban population including many patients who are from underserved backgrounds. The annual ED census at EMCP is around 100,000 patients. Its designation as a pediatric receiving hospital ensures that the emergency department takes care of many sick and traumatically-injured kids.
Rotations Completed Here: Trauma.
Interns learn the foundations of emergency medicine and develop their approach to patient care. First year residents will:
Residents spend the majority of this year in the emergency department and the critical care units. Second year residents will:
Residents spend their final year assuming the role of clinical leader in the emergency department. Third year residents will:
a = Einstein Medical Center Montgomery
b = St. Christopher's Hospital for Pediatrics
c = Plymouth Community Ambulance
d = Thomas Jefferson University Hospital
e = Einstien Medical Center Philadelphia
The over-arching hallmarks of this program are excitement about emergency medicine, emphasis on fundamentals, input from the residents to improve the program, their experience, and their wellness/resilience. Residents are excused from clinical duties every Thursday morning to attend 5 hours of educational programming. Lectures and workshops are conducted by emergency medicine faculty, guest faculty, and EM residents from all levels of training. Each Thursday a resident will be responsible for one lecture and one clinical case. Curriculum includes joint lectures with other training programs (e.g. critical care, pediatrics, and internal medicine). The core conference Grand Rounds will be presented by a faculty well-versed or published in the topic.
The residency incorporates the Foundations curriculum into our Thursday conferences. This year-long flipped classroom curriculum provides level-specific content that builds a comprehensive framework for understanding cardinal presentations, “can’t miss” diagnoses and essential management strategies within the EM Model of Clinical Practice.
This is a weekly conference during which challenging clinical cases are presented, engaging the audience to participate in analyzing the clinical problem and proposing alternative solutions and management strategies. Such series of lectures trains residents’ judgement and emphasizes that there are often many ways to do patient care--some a little better or worse than others, some equivalent.
Our residents are provided with one hour of weekly online asynchronous learning resources.
We have a dedicated hour every week to review high-yield board examination content and practice board-style multiple choice questions as well as mock oral board examinations run by EM attendings in preparation for the ABEM-certifying written and oral exam. We also participate in the annual ABEM in-service examination.
Residents of all levels of training participate in monthly multi-disciplinary learning modules which include:
During shift sign out, senior residents are encouraged to relate one teaching point that they have learned during that shift. EM attendings are encouraged to participate.
In addition to the administration block in PGY-3, residents will be exposed to a series of didactic leactures on administration, leadership, directorship, and risk management throughout the 3-year program. This will prepare our residents to become clinical leaders directly out of residency.
This is held one evening every other month at an off-site location. During journal club, residents and faculty connect in an informal setting while learning to read and appraise medical literature critically. Residents (and faculty) are encouraged to keep up with the current EM literature (Annals of Emergency Medicine, Academic Emergency Medicine, American Journal of Emergency Medicine, and Journal of Emergency Medicine). On the odd months, the journal clubs will be topic-based and organized around current evidence to support novel therapies or procedures. This format employs consensus format and provides an important style to incorporate new therapies into a physician or physician group’s practices.
Throughout the 3-year program we have a “Career-Directed Curriculum.” This is a series of didactics which is specific for each year of residency, including topics such as CV workshop, interviewing success skills, job searching, and financial planning.
Residents will be provided with:
Our residents are a kind and compassionate group who not only work well together, but also have fun together. From July 4th on the rooftops watching fireworks in a panoramic 360, end-of-orientation Dave & Busters arcade event, Jenga at the Conshohocken Brewing Company, to cornhole & campfire at Dr. Czincila's home, every resident current and future automatically becomes part of the Einstein Family - forever.
From Valley Forge National Park, the site of George Washington's solder's winter encampment to the King of Prussia Mall, the third largest mall (and the largest retail shopping mall) in the United States, Montgomery county is full of things to do. Elmwood Park Zoo, Legoland, iFLY indoor skydiving, Reach rock climbing, biking and hiking trails in the Norristown Farm Park can all be found here.
The distance from Einstein Medical Center Montgomery to Center city is approximately 33 minutes by car. As a result, our residents are able to take advantage of all that Philadelphia has to offer - be it concerts, museums, nightlife, festivals, or the plethora of restaurants to choose from. In fact, some of our residents decide to live even closer to the city so that they can explore it on their off-days.
