Emergency Medicine Residency Program

Our Goal
The mission statement of Scott & White is "to provide the most personalized, comprehensive, and highest quality health care enhanced by medical education and research." The sole purpose of the Emergency Medicine Residency Program is "to prepare residents for the practice of emergency medicine."

Residents will experience 36 months of intense academic, didactic, clinical and administrative training. We seek to provide the highest quality patient care and educate residents who are highly skilled in both the art and science of the practice of emergency medicine. Their education will be achieved through clinical experience, administrative training, research and didactics including lectures, conferences, laboratories and reading major emergency medicine texts. Teaching skills are developed through presentation of multiple didactic lectures and participation in conferences. Toward that end, we provide a friendly but scholarly atmosphere for direct resident supervision and teaching.

Approximately 60,000 patients were served in the Emergency Department at Scott & White last year. Approximately 21 percent of those patients were admitted, with one in 10 going to intensive care.

Scott & White is the only tertiary care center in the area and functions as the regional referral center. We provide online medical control for the regional ground EMS and air EMS services. Scott & White also houses the Central Texas Poison Control Center which operates under the direction of the Emergency Department.

Our department has 44 rooms (six major resuscitation). Sixteen full-time physicians, board certified in emergency medicine, staff the department 24 hours a day with 32 hours of triple coverage and one hour of double coverage.

We serve a diverse patient mixture. The largest group (30 percent) are HMO clients, most belonging to the Scott & White Health Plan. Privately insured and Workers' Compensation patients make up 15 percent of the volume, with Medicare and Medicaid patients comprising an additional 32 percent. The remaining patients are either self-pay or charity.

Emergency department charts are completed with a template system and dictation. All ancillary services are provided (phlebotomy, IV services, respiratory therapy, EKG and radiology) as well as 24-hour consultation with any specialty or subspecialty needed.

Back to Top