Conferences
Regularly scheduled conferences are an integral part of the training program. Weekly conferences of 4-5 hours convene every Friday morning and rotate between Washington Hospital Center (1st, 3rd & 5th Fridays) and Georgetown University Hospital (2nd & 4th Fridays). Conferences will include Grand Rounds, Core Topics, Case Reviews, Morbidity & Mortality and In-service Review. Monthly, joint conferences are scheduled with the Department of Pediatrics at Georgetown and Trauma Surgery at Washington Hospital Center.

In addition, residents attend a daily Clinical Pearls Conference from 7:00 7:30 a.m. during emergency department rotations at the Georgetown University Hospital and Washington Hospital Center. The conference is an opportunity for residents and attendings to present interesting and challenging cases for group discussion and review.


Residents also participate in monthly journal club meetings. The meetings serve several purposes. They support the review of significant historical work; they encourage a greater understanding of research methodologies and statistical analysis; and they keep residents updated with respect to advances in medicine and their affect on emergency medicine practice.

Research
Residents will have a diverse array of research opportunities through the department, medical school and MedStar Research Institute. In addition, residents have the unique opportunity to participate in research conducted by MedStar Healths Institute for Medical Informatics, a center for research and development in emergency medicine informatics. The Institute is the recipient of a $6.5 million research grant from the National Library of Medicine (Project Sentinel) to develop advanced biosurveillance data techniques and data visualization that unites clinical and non-clinical data from the District of Columbia and its environs.

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