I think it's all about the opportunities. Here we're a four-year program and that
provides you with the ability to - you can do ultrasound, you can do critical care,
you can participate in disaster projects. We offer way more experiences than almost
anybody else and it's very complete all the way from community experience to the
most tertiary care academic center experiences that you can, we see way more
trauma than anyone else, we're the State Pediatric Trauma Center, we're the State
Eye Trauma Center, we're a cardiac consultation center, we're a stroke center.
Patients here are actually a wonderful group of patients to serve.
They are diverse, very sick population of patients, lots of social challenges, and
it's really a wonderful place to learn how to take care of patients. It's a very diverse, very young type of a city.
We've got a lot of schools in the area, we've got a lot of hospitals in the area,
we've got a lot of people who are also in need in the area and so I think that having
that mix of people contributes to your experience as a person.
Our four-year program is astoundingly unique. There isn't another program in the country
that offers as many fellowships as we do. It embeds the first year of a fellowship
program right into the four years so you leave not just with the residency
but essentially a fellowship of sorts under your belt.
The program is a phenomenal clinical training program and has been for many years. We're looking for people who are interested
not just to take care of patients but to think of how
to advance our field. There are many ways you can do that
in emergency medicine and we're very lucky in that we have a lot of very
diverse areas of interest. This not only involves being good clinically, you know, which what happening in training before but
it also means - being able to think about research, to change the way that we do things
to improve patient care. It also means trying to think about the
way the system is currently run so that we can improve wait times in the ER and improve
the way we deliver healthcare, teaming up with community resources to
help people get access to primary care. I think that at the end of the day your
care for your patient is not just what you do for them in the ER but it's what
happens outside in their whole lives as well. The ER is just one snapshot but you've got
to think about the big picture as well. The history of Hopkins is quite important
overall to the experience of all residents who come here.
But what's really amazing about this place is despite having such a long,
long history well over a century that it is astoundingly progressive and astoundingly
young and that's what makes us so vibrant and that's what keeps it number
one year after year after year. Our residents have the opportunity to
choose between a number of areas, niches we call them.
The fast track is an opportunity for residents to choose between one of the
11 specialties that we have here. They learn about the types of work that
people are doing, the types of research, the types of careers they can develop after
they graduate should they choose that particular area.
Within each of those tracks there is a leader so each track has a person who's in charge.
They have board-certified fellowship trained faculty to mentor you and they have
all of these resident alumni who have walked the same path as aim walking now
that have used these opportunities to add success to their own careers. It seeks progressive chairs, it
seeks progressive residency directors and it seeks and attracts progressive people,
people who want to go somewhere, people who want to do things, people who want to
make a difference in their careers when they leave here. The people that I work with they've
absolutely changed my life. They are people who if it's three o'clock
in the morning and have a problem I know I can call them up.
If I have a flat tire they'll come and help me out.
If it's somebody that I want to just go and hang out in the museum with
I can find somebody like that. This is the kind of friendship that's going
to last you a lifetime because we're watching ourselves get married, we're
watching ourselves have kids. I think that camaraderie is just really
adds to the experience here because you're working hard and you need people
to support you through it. It's the number one hospital for now 20
years running and that can be somewhat intimidating for people.
Once you're here though it's not intimidating. You really just get taken into the fold. Why?
Because if you're here you deserve to be here. Part of what's so great about being here
is that everywhere you turn there are people who are exactly like you.
The students who are best suited to come into Hopkins are those that are pretty
solid at the core, they know what they want, because this is the type of place
that if you come, whatever you think your potential is, it's such an amazing place
that it will pull the potential that you think you have and then add to it two or
three times and you will come out of here dazzled by what you've become and what
your abilities are and who's interested in hiring you and the kind of career that you can have.
