Emergency Medicine Fellowship

Emergency Medicine Fellowship

Curriculum

Our large, full-time faculty in the core disciplines will teach and supervise you directly throughout our comprehensive curriculum of topics, including cardiology, community medicine, EKG, emergency medicine, ENT, family medicine, geriatrics, hospital service, internal medicine, neurology, obstetrics and gynecology, occupational medicine, ophthalmology, orthopedics, pediatrics, practice management, psychiatry, radiology, rural medicine, sports medicine, surgery, urology and ventilator management.

Learning Objectives

• Competence in the biological and psychosocial care of patients of all ages.
• Learn a treatment approach that is comprehensive, continuous and caring.
• Teach family dynamics and community interactions in the treatment of patients.
• Develop health-assessment and preventive-medicine skills, and encourage residents’ roles as educators in the medical community.
• Enhance residents’ skills in the practice of medicine.

Inpatient Experience

Our program has a strong inpatient component. We have an active inpatient service allowing for high-level care of our patients. This includes a thriving critical care component with open ICUs at DCH Regional Medical Center. Our typical inpatient census is 10 to 12 patients for each family medicine team. Residents routinely see acute care, urgent care in Tuscaloosa and chronic health issues.

Outpatient Experience

New residents are assigned their own panel of patients, the size of which increases over their time in residency. Family medicine faculty are always available for consultation. In a half-day clinic, interns will see two to three patients, PGY-2s will see eight to 10 patients and PGY-3s will see 10 to 12 patients.

Outpatient experiences include:

• Dermatological Procedures
• EKG stress tests
• Internal medicine
• Joint Injections
• Obstetrics and gynecology
• Occupational medicine
• Outpatient surgery
• Pediatrics
• Psychiatry
• Surgery

Patient care is supported by:

• A full-service laboratory
• Radiologic services
• Ultrasound
• Endoscopy
• Colposcopy
• Stress Test

Patient care is also supported by patient education, dietetic services and social services.

Didactics

Residents meet every Tuesday from 12:15 pm to 4:15 pm for lectures and workshops from specialists in their respective disciplines. We have a morning report on the inpatient services at least three days a week. Journal Club is held monthly during Tuesday didactics. Formal didactics are supported with numerous resources, including online courses and modules.

We have lectures most Tuesdays on a variety of health care topics.

Clinical Training Sites

DCH Regional Medical Center in Tuscaloosa, the Tuscaloosa Veterans Affairs Medical Center, University Medical Center, UMC-Northport and local physician offices and nursing homes provide the training sites for residents to acquire the skills and procedures necessary to diagnose and treat a wide variety of health issues in patients of all ages.

Inpatient Training

DCH Regional Medical Center in Tuscaloosa is the primary hospital for The University of Alabama Tuscaloosa Family Medicine Residency Program, which is the only residency at the hospital. Located adjacent to the UA campus on University Boulevard, DCH is a tertiary-care facility with 583 beds and offers a variety of special units and advanced services, including cancer, cardiology, robotic and minimally invasive surgery, and the region’s most advanced trauma center. Other features:

• Level II trauma center
• Level III nursery
• Inpatient pediatric services
• Intensive care unit
• Coronary care unit
• Open-heart surgical unit
• Oncology unit
• Dialysis unit
• Outpatient surgery

The Tuscaloosa Veterans Affairs Medical Center is a second hospital training site for our residency. The facility provides a busy general medical service as well as comprehensive psychiatric services. The VA Medical Center is a 655-bed hospital emphasizing neuropsychiatry; medical services include an intensive care unit, pulmonary laboratory and a nursing home unit for geriatric patients.

Ambulatory Care

University Medical Center, UMC-Northport and local private physician offices are the ambulatory care centers for the residency.

Located on The University of Alabama campus, University Medical Center provides multi-specialty and patient-centered care for West Alabama in an environment that emphasizes the skills and attitudes of family medicine and primary care practice. Under the supervision of skilled and dedicated clinicians, residents are trained in family medicine, internal medicine, pediatrics, obstetrics and gynecology, psychiatry, neurology, and minor surgery. 

UMC-Northport, just a short drive from campus, provides family medicine, internal medicine, pediatrics, women’s health, prenatal care, geriatrics, neurology, behavioral medicine and sports medicine.

UMC-Demopolis, provides family medicine, prenatal and obstetrics care in a rural community about an hour from Tuscaloosa.

Fellowship Features

• ACLS, PALS, ATLS and S.T.A.B.L.E.
• Financial support available for Continuing Medical Education activities and professional meetings
• $71,425.00 salary with benefits package