Emergency Medicine Residency Columbia

About our residency program

At Prisma Health, we have been developing outstanding young emergency physicians since 1978. As one of the most established programs in the country, we offer outstanding clinical training in a high-acuity environment and help you learn to balance your personal and professional life. We will push you to explore whatever stimulates your professional curiosity in an environment that provides a unique level of freedom.

This program offers a fully accredited, three-year training program with 13 residents accepted into each class. Residents are selected through ERAS and, historically, come from a wide range of locations across the United States. Residents are supervised by 30 ABEM board-certified attending physicians who average 15 years of clinical experience after residency and expertise in a wide range of areas relative to the practice of emergency medicine including ultrasound, EMS, toxicology, wilderness medicine, simulation medicine, pediatrics, information technology, HBO, hospital administration, and global health.