| Name: |
Nancy Kenny |
| Title: |
Residency Coordinator |
| Email: |
Nancy.L.Kenny@medstar.net |
| Phone: |
+1 202 877 8080 |
| Fax: |
+1 202 877 7633 |
| Name: |
David Milzman, MD |
| Email: |
davidmilzman@comcast.net |
| Phone: |
+1 202 877 7385 |
| Areas of Department Research Interest: |
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We are committed to furthering our specialty through the development of research and innovative programs in emergency preparedness, information technology, transport medicine, event medicine, emergency ultrasound, critical care, patient safety, and sports medicine.
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| Peer Review Abstracts Presented in Last 5 Years: 120 |
| Peer Reviewed Manuscripts Published in the Last 5 Years: 65 |
| Non-Peer-Reviewed Publications in the Last 5 Years: 40 |
| Describe How the Residents Meet the Requirement of Engage in Scholarly Activity: |
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All residents are required to complete a Quality Improvement (QI)/Scholarly Project by the end of the PGY-3 year. Residents work collaboratively in groups, and gain experience in all aspects of project design and implementation. The goal of the QI portion of the project is to gain familiarity with quality improvement processes through participation in a quality improvement project of direct relevance to ED operations. The goal of the scholarly portion of the project is to participate in the scholarly process through active engagement in a multi-step project (from idea generation/initial literature search to dissemination outside of the institution), and to create a publication-ready product.
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| Unique attributes: |
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Our residents are regularly engaged in research/scholarship, service and leadership at the local, regional and national levels. We have had residents serve as reviewers for EM journals (including Annals of Emergency Medicine), lead committees, and serve in an executive capacity (including the role of President) in various EM resident organizations. In addition, several of our residents have been finalists in national initiatives, such as the SAEM photo competition.
Our curriculum has an emphasis on critical care, trauma and pediatrics. It is our belief that time spend rotating outside of the ED is best spent caring for the sickest patients. As such, our trainees rotate through the following intensive care settings during the course of training: CCU, MICU, SICU, PICU, Trauma.
Skill and comfort in dealing with pediatric patients is essential to the well-rounded emergency physician. As such, our pediatric experience is diverse, including: 5 months at MGUH (where ~15% of the patient volume is peds), 2 months at Shady Grove Peds ED, 1 month at INOVA Fairfax Hospital Peds ED, 1 month of PICU, and 2 months at Children's National Medical Center (CNMC) Peds ED where shifts are interspersed during MedStar Washington Hospital Center ED months ensuring continuity and seasonal variation in pediatric EM exposure during the course of training.
Our trauma curriculum includes a dedicated trauma month at our own MedSTAR trauma center during the PGY-1 year and a month at the R Adams Cowley Shock Trauma Center in Baltimore during the PGY-2 year. During the PGY-3 year, dedicated senior trauma shifts are interspersed within MWHC ED months, where our senior residents alternate roles (trauma leader & trauma procedure senior resident) with the senior surgical resident for every other major trauma activation. In addition, our upper level residents are in-charge of all trauma airways when working routine ED shifts.
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