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

73,200 patients were seen in our Emergency Department at Scott & White in the last year. 21 percent of those patients were in the pediatric age group. 22 percent of our patients are sick enough to be admitted to the hospital, with 10 percent of admissions going to an intensive care unit

We are the only tertiary care referral center and the only level 1 trauma center in the area. The area serves well over one million patients in our catchment area. We provide online medical control for the regional ground, critical care, 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 47 rooms (six major resuscitation). 17 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 patients, 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 computerized template system and dictation for all resuscitations. A comprehensive electronic medical record is maintained for all patients. EKGs, PACS radiology system, and complete patient charts including labs and other studies are available in one concise system. 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.

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