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PGY1/PGY2

Your first 2 years in residency are spent acquiring the breadth of knowledge in various aspects of emergency medicine to become successful as seniors and leaders in your PGY3/PGY4 roles. While at least half of the year is spent in the ED (26 weeks (PGY1)/30 weeks (PGY2), Yale, Bridgeport, St. Raphael’s), your off -service rotations include:

• PGY1

  • CCU (junior) - 2 weeks

  • MICU (junior) - 4 weeks

  • OBGYN/EMS - 4 weeks

  • Yale Pediatric EM - 2 weeks

  • Community Pediatric EM - 4 weeks

  • SIM - 2 weeks

  • Anesthesia - 2 weeks

  • Ultrasound - 4 weeks

  • Procedures - 2 weeks

  • Backup - 4 weeks (while on OB/EMS)

  • Vacation - 4 weeks

• PGY2

  • Trauma Surgery - 3 weeks

  • SICU - 3 weeks

  • PICU - 4 weeks

  • Yale Pediatric EM - 6 weeks

  • Ophthalmology - 1 week

  • Administration - 2 weeks

  • SIM - 2 weeks

  • Toxicology - 1 week

  • Backup - 4 weeks (while on Tox, Admin, Ophtho blocks)

  • Vacation - 4 weeks

PGY3

Your main role is to manage an entire side on A-side (acute side) and run resuscitation rooms. This is when you develop, reflect and practice your medical management and practice style. While you are mainly doing ED rotations (36 weeks, Yale, Bridgeport, St. Raphael’s), you will be off-service for:

• MICU (senior) - 4 weeks

• Crisis/Psychiatric ED - 2 weeks

• Elective - 8 weeks

• SIM - 2 weeks

• PEM - 25% of ED shifts per block

• Backup - 4 weeks (while on an elective block)

• Vacation - 4 weeks

We utilize the bolus-drip method of incorporating Peds EM into our training — there are dedicated rotations in PGY1/PGY2 months and PED shifts are scattered in your adult ED months as PGY3/PGY4.

PGY4

You have now graduated from not only running an entire side of A-side, you are now overseeing junior residents who are scheduled to work on your side. It is designed for you to practice bedside teaching, running an acute part of the department, assisting charge RN with flow, troubleshooting bottleneck problems that arise during a shift, and collaterally supervising junior learners (38 weeks). Off service blocks include:

• SIM - 2 weeks

• Elective - 8 weeks

• Peds Anesthesia - 2 weeks

• Education or Admin - 2 weeks

• PEM - 25% of ED shifts per block

• Backup - 4 weeks (while on an elective block)

• Vacation - 4 weeks

Areas of Concentration (AOC) are subjects of sub-specialty and niche within emergency medicine. These AOCs are explored throughout the academic year during conference. While PGY1s rotate through each one, PGY2-PGY4 choose 2 AOCs and focus in developing insight and expertise into these 2 niche areas.

The following list contains the AOC offered to our residents:

• Administration

• Critical Care

• Education/Simulation

• EMS

• Global Health/Public Health

• Toxicology

• Ultrasound

• Wilderness Medicine

Didactics at Yale are focused on adding to your clinical experience. Time in the hospital is critical, we all know that, but didactics focuses on developing foundational knowledge and skills that will make amazing emergency physicians. Didactics are typically in small groups, interactive, and often utilizes our EM specifc simulation lab. In addition to traditional topics such as EKG workshops, didactics include cadaver labs, wilderness medicine practical days and mock oral boards. Breakfast is provided each week before conference.

Most updated contract and benefits can be found here.

• One of the highest resident salaries in the country:

  • Postgraduate Year Salary

    PGY1 $82,602

    PGY2 $85,388

    PGY3 $89,507

    PGY4 $93,832

• Health Insurance at no cost | Dental Insurance strongly subsidized | Vision Plan strongly subsidized

• $450/year food stipend at Yale for PGY-1s, $650/year for PGY-2, 3, and 4, $10/midnight worked at Bridgeport

• Access to Yale Campus including multiple libraries, gymnasium and other resources

• Four weeks of vacation/year

• Free Yale University services (Xfinity TV, HBO Max, NYTimes, Wall Street Journal, etc)

• Membership to state and national professional societies

• 401k matching (75% vested of 3% at the end of four years if contributing 5% or more)

• $60/month parking at Yale at subsidized rate (includes free parking at SRC), free parking at Bridgeport

• Free iPhone and coverage plan for hospital communications with free international plan

• Access to free financial and disability insurance advice

• Free concierge service to all YNHH employees

The Diversity Committee at Yale Emergency Medicine is dedicated to increasing representation, equality, and visibility of underrepresented minorities, LGBTQI+, and women physicians at Yale as well as in the greater field of Emergency Medicine.

Committee Activities

• Minority Sub-I Scholarship: We offer a scholarship to underrepresented minorities accepted for sub-internship or ultrasound rotation at Yale EM Program. The committee also coordinates social activities for scholarship recipients and keeps in touch throughout the application process.

• Medical School Residency Fairs: We are actively recruiting underrepresented minorities and send our committee members to recruitment fairs at medical schools such as Meharry Medical College.

• Representation in National Organizations: Our committee members are actively involved on a national scale. For example, Ryan Buckley ran a residency application workshop at the Association of American Indian Physicians Conference in 2018. Caitlin Ryus is a co-chair of the LGBT Committee for the Academy of Inclusion and Diversity in Emergency Medicine.

• Grand Rounds Lectures: We invite Grand Rounds speakers to discuss issues related to diversity, equity, and inclusion.