Emergency Medicine Residency Columbia - Curriculum
Educational experiences
The Emergency Medicine Residency Program at Prisma Health in Columbia is an ACGME-accredited three-year training program that began in 1974 and has been at Prisma Health since 1978.
Our curriculum for the training program is as follows:
PGY 1 year
All rotations are at the Prisma Health Richland Hospital campus.
- 4 weeks – Cardiology
- 36 weeks – Emergency medicine
- 2 weeks – EMS (air and ground)
- 4 weeks – Medical critical care
- 4 weeks – Obstetrics
- 2 weeks – Ultrasound
PGY 2 year
All rotations are at the Prisma Health Richland Hospital campus.
- 4 weeks – Elective
- 4 weeks – Medical critical care
- 30 weeks – Emergency medicine
- 2 weeks – Orthopedics
- 4 weeks – Pediatric critical care
- 8 weeks – Surgical and trauma critical care
PGY 3 year
- 6 weeks – Electives
- 46 weeks – Emergency medicine
Available electives
- Wilderness medicine
- Research
- Advanced emergency ultrasound
- Global health
- Aeromedical EMS
- Research
- HBO
- Dentistry, ophthalmology, and many others
Subspecialty track opportunities
Second-year residents have the option to choose a subspecialty track for their third year. This allows residents to have protected time outside of their clinical work to focus on emergency medicine-associated interests. Subspecialty tracks residents can participate in include administration, toxicology, global health, EMS, simulation, ultrasound, pediatrics and wilderness medicine.
Patient population
The Prisma Health Richland Hospital emergency department currently sees more than 90,000 patients per year, including more than 30,000 children. 22 percent of patients are admitted to an inpatient service. The department admits approximately 2,200 major trauma patients each year. Approximately 20 percent of trauma admissions are from penetrating injuries.