Emergency Medicine Residency at Atlantic Health Morristown
The Emergency Medicine Residency program at Atlantic Health Morristown Medical Center offers long-standing, accredited training with strong academic mentorship and a team-based approach in a high-volume emergency department.
A message from the residency program director
Atlantic Health Morristown's Emergency Medicine (EM) Residency Program has been in existence since 1978, NJ’s oldest ACGME accredited program. Our residency offers first class training in a tertiary medical center with excellent academic and clinical mentorship. We utilize teams-based approach utilizing the most up-to date assessment tools in our recently renovated emergency department.
Many of our alumni are now directors of emergency departments, academic emergency physicians and practicing emergency physicians. Many have also completed fellowships in specialty areas such as: emergency medicine services, emergency ultrasound, hyperbaric medicine, toxicology, critical care, disaster planning and pediatric emergency medicine.
We look forward to your application.
Frederick W Fiesseler, DO, FACEP
Emergency Medicine Residency Program Director
About the department of emergency medicine
The department is composed of 92 private treatment rooms with overflow space to accommodate an additional 60 patients throughout the department. The ED at Morristown Medical Center sees over 111,000+ patients annually. Atlantic Health Morristown Emergency Department is a NJ State-designated Comprehensive Stroke Center, American College of Surgeons Level 1 Trauma Center, American College of Emergency Physicians Level 1 Geriatric Center, and Emergency Nursing Association Lantern Award recipients. Morristown Medical Center is a Magnet Hospital. Our exceptional ancillary services permit the emergency medicine resident to focus care of the patient in a cohesive team approach. The department of emergency medicine is staffed by 41 full-time Attendings, all of whom are board-certified or board-eligible in emergency medicine, some with subspecialty fellowship training: pediatrics, toxicology, critical care, EMS, ultrasound, undersea and hyperbaric medicine, teaching and research.
Every resident in our program learns to:
- Educate the faculty and residents regarding the definitions of the new core competencies and descriptions of any new assessment tools, including changes to the evaluation forms.
- Review all existing assessment and evaluation forms and modify the terminology to a competency-based description that specifically mentions “patient care” quality and other core competencies.
- Modify resident assessment forms that measure patient care to incorporate each of the skills listed in the core competency definitions, as well as the sub-competencies and tasks as outlined from the Model of the Clinical Practice of Emergency Medicine document.
- Provide patient care that is timely, effective, appropriate and compassionate for the management of health problems and the promotion of health.
- Gather accurate, essential information in a timely manner from all sources, integrate diagnostic information and generate an appropriate differential diagnosis.
- Implement an effective patient management plan, including therapy, appropriate consultation, disposition and patient education while competently performing the diagnostic and therapeutic procedures and emergency stabilization considered essential to the practice of emergency medicine.
- Prioritize and stabilize multiple patients and perform other responsibilities simultaneously.
- Identify life-threatening conditions, diagnose, synthesize acquired patient data, identify how and when to access current medical information, properly sequence critical actions in patient care, generate a differential diagnosis for an undifferentiated patient, and complete disposition of patients using available resources.
- Respectfully, effectively and efficiently communicate and develop a therapeutic relationship with patients and their families.
- Develop flexible communication strategies and adjust them based on the clinical situation.
- Develop effective listening skills and elicit and provide information using verbal, nonverbal, written and technological skills.
- Handle situations unique to emergency medicine including: intoxicated patients, altered mental status, delivering bad news, do-not-resuscitate decisions, communication barriers, acutely psychotic patients, high-risk refusal-of-care patients, difficulties with consultants, and communication with out-of-hospital personnel and non-medical personnel (police, media, hospital administration).
- Develop effective written communication skills.
- Interact professionally with patients and their families, other members of the health care team, ancillary staff, out-of-hospital personnel and non-medical personnel.
- Model behaviors of professionalism: punctuality, accurate charting, concern for patients’ rights, respect for patients and coworkers, and confidentiality.
- Demonstrate both an understanding of the contexts and systems in which health care is provided and be able to apply this knowledge to improve and optimize health care.
- Develop knowledge of various health care delivery systems, provide cost-effective care, advocate for quality patient care and assist patients in dealing with system complexities.
- Analyze and assess practice experience and perform practice-based improvements.
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