Our Goal

The sole purpose of the Emergency Medicine Residency Program is "to prepare residents for the practice of emergency medicine."

Emergency Department and Program Highlights

• 36 months of intense academic, didactic, clinical and administrative training in a PGY 1-3 format
• A busy primary training site that saw more than 75, 000 patients in the last year
  • 21 percent of those patients were in the pediatric age group
  • 22 percent were sick enough to be admitted to the hospital
  • 10 percent of admissions went to an intensive care unit
• Only tertiary care referral center and only Level 1 trauma center in the area
• 573 hospital beds with 47 ED rooms, including six major resuscitation
• Charts are completed with a computerized template system and dictation for all resuscitations
  • Comprehensive electronic medical records maintained for all patients
  • EKGs, PACS radiology system, and complete patient charts including labs and other studies are available in one concise system
• Provides 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
• 15 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

Accreditation

Scott & White's Emergency Medicine Residency program is fully accredited by the Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education (ACGME).