1970. Our practice setting is non-confrontational, and members of the medical staff treat emergency physicians with respect and collegiality.

With the creation of Clarian Health Partners and the Academic Department of Emergency Medicine, our residency has an unparalleled opportunity for further growth and development. Since July of 2000 we have added our second EM training site at Wishard Memorial Hospital. The ED there serves as the public health facility for the citizens of Marian County.

Wishard is a Level 1 ACS accredited trauma center for both adult and pediatric patients, houses the regional burn center, and the over 100,000 annual ED visits complement nicely the patient population encountered at the Methodist ED. Our faculty has expanded from 21 to 44 over the past 2 years, and our residency complement has expanded from 43 to 61 by July 2002. Honestly, we are hard pressed to find any patient population or pathology that is not represented in our patient populations at Wishard and Methodist (all 200,000 of them!).

While Methodist is the 5th largest hospital in the nation in terms of annual admissions (144 ICU beds not including NICU) it offers the "best of all worlds" for a training environment. It serves as the major state referral centers for medical and trauma patients. The ED at Methodist is integrated with patients of all ages cared for during every shift. The private teaching hospital adds an environment of respect and camaraderie without hostile "turf issues," thereby allowing the resident to concentrate on education and training.

The residency relies heavily on resident involvement in its governance and evolution (in fact, we expect every resident to take an active role in decision making in all aspects of our residency, including such things as Chief Resident selection and development of our match list). We constantly ask ourselves: "How can we do this better?" and "What further opportunities exist?" Collegiality is emphasized not only amongst the residents but with the faculty as well. Don't let our large size worry you that we don't hold a tightly knit residency as one of our premier values! In addition to preparing excellent practitioners of emergency medicine, our curriculum emphasizes involvement in and understanding of the societal, political, and economic forces that affect our patients and our specialty. Our Academic Department is intimately involved in virtually every EM venue in our state. As a resident, you'll not have a problem finding a fascinating interest area with which to become involved…your challenge instead will be selecting one from our huge menu of opportunities.

Methodist and Wishard EDs serve as equal partners united under the Academic Department of Emergency Medicine. Thus all EM residents will spend 50% of their ED rotations at each facility.

The Indiana University School of Medicine - Emergency Medicine Residency is dedicated to providing an excellent educational environment which prepares our graduates to enter the career pathway of their choice (e.g. clinical, academic, fellowship, administrative), as well as pass the ABEM Certification Examination on the first attempt. We believe that the "gold standard" for training is to assure that any of our graduates could successfully practice in a busy solo-coverage community ED…the most challenging practice environment in medicine. In this setting, the physician must possess the cognitive and technical skill set to care for any patient for at least 45 minutes without the assistance of other consultants, or even without the availability of diagnostic tests that are often taken for granted in large teaching hospitals. While almost 30% of our grads go on to further training and academic careers, we assure that all of our grads can meet this "gold standard".