Louisiana State University - Baton Rouge

Submitted by MWegeman on May 17, 2011 - 2:31pm
Medical School Affiliation: 
Louisiana State University - Baton Rouge
Institution Address: 
5825 Airline Highway
Baton Rouge , LA 70805
United States
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Mailing Address
Address1: 
Earl K. Long Medical Center
Address2: 
Emergency Medicine Residency Program
City: 
Baton Rouge
State: 
Louisiana
Zip: 
70805
Website(s): 
http://www.emrp-batonrouge.org/
Program Training Format: 
PGY 1 - 3
Number of residents per entering class: 
15
Number of residents currently in training: 
45
Percentage of residents who are women: 
24.00
Total number of resident graduates: 
198
Numbers of residency who did not complete the program in past 5 years: 
0
Accreditation: 
ACGME
ACGME Accreditation: 
Continued
Date of last ACGME RRC - EM survey : 
Tuesday, May 17, 2011
Year accreditation expires: 
2015
Year program began: 
1992
Residency Coordinator
Coordinator First Name: 
Marie
Coordinator Last Name: 
Wegeman
Coordinator Title: 
Residency Coordinator
Coordinator Email: 
mwegem@lsuhsc.edu
Coordinator Phone: 
+1 225 358 3940
Coordinator Fax: 
+1 225 358 3939
Department Chair:
Chair Title: 
Chairman
Chair First Name: 
Cris
Chair Last Name: 
Mandry, MD, FACEP
Program Director
Director Title: 
Residency Director
Director First Name: 
Sarah
Director Last Name: 
d'Autremont, MD, FACEP
Director Email: 
emrpbr@lsuhsc.edu
Director Phone: 
+1 225 358 3940
Associate/Assistant Program Directors
First Name: 
Will
Last Name: 
Freeman
Title: 
Associate Program Director
Phone: 
+1 225 358 3940
Email: 
wfreem@lsuhsc.edu
Research Director
First Name: 
J. Nelson
Last Name: 
Perret, M.D.
Email: 
jperre@lsuhsc.edu
Phone: 
+1 225 358 3940
Areas of department research interest: 
The Emergency Medicine Residency program has a full-time research director. Our library includes 300 journal titles, 2,200 textbooks and monographs, 5,500 bound journal volumes, 250 audio-visual items, dozens of educational and instructional CD packages, and internet computer workstations. The library also has an excellent interlibrary loan service for obtaining needed texts and journal articles. Additional library support includes the LSU main campus library and the LSU Health Sciences Center libraries in New Orleans. Research Activities: Residents and faculty are engaged in a wide variety of research projects since residents are free to choose their own projects or collaborate with faculty. Some current research projects include: 1) Epidemiology of psychiatric disorders in emergency departments; 2) Physician stress; 3) Asthma, COPD, anaphylaxis & pneumonia studies (the residency program is a participating site in the Multicenter Airway Research Collaboration (MARC), an international research network of emergency physicians with an interest in airway disorders).
Number of peer review abstracts presented in last 5 years: 
42
Number of peer reviewed manuscripts published in the last 5 years: 
14
Number of non-peer-reviewed publications in the last 5 years: 
30
Describe how the residents meet the requirement of engage in scholarly activity: 
All residents must have a scholarly project that is of publishable quality prior to the completion of their residency training. The Research Director meets with each resident to select their research project in their EM-1 year. EM-2 residents rotate on the Research rotation under the direction of the Research Director. Residents are encouraged to submit their completed projects to local, regional and/or national venues.
Unique attributes: 
The majority of the resident rotations are conducted at Earl K. Long Medical Center (EKLMC), a large public hospital. Our participating clinical sites are Baton Rouge General Medical Center –Mid City (BRGMC-MC), Baton Rouge General Medical Center- Bluebonnet (BRGMC-BB), Our Lady of the Lake Regional Medical Center (OLOLRMC) and Woman’s Hospital. The combination of these hospitals provides our residents with a superior educational experience, permitting them to be exposed to every aspect of emergency medicine and its subspecialties. To allow for a smooth transition from medical student to Emergency Medicine Resident, residents begin their residency with a one-month Emergency Medicine Orientation Rotation. During this orientation month, residents will attend lectures, labs, and skill stations that will form the foundation from which their residency training will grow. This will provide each resident with the basic fundamentals so that they can approach each subsequent rotation in a manner that will maximize their clinical experience. Provider certification in ACLS, ATLS, PALS and NALS, as well as instructor certification in ACLS and PALS will be accomplished during this month. A reduced clinical load in the Emergency Department during this month will allow the resident to reinforce this initial didactic experience with clinical experience.
Primary Site
Institution name: 
Earl K. Long Medical Center
Number of beds in hospital: 
255
Number of beds in ED: 
29
Total number of annual ED visits: 
46512
Pediatric visits (%): 
4
Admission rate (%): 
12
Admission admitted to critical care area (%): 
2
Level 1 Trauma verification?: 
No
Total Number of EM rotation months: 
14
Miles from primary training institution: 
0
Unique attributes: 
EKLMC is a state run, public hospital that serves the indigent patient population of East Baton Rouge Parish and 7 surrounding parishes. In addition to the emergency medicine rotations, our residents rotate on the EM Ultrasound, EM Research, Anesthesia, Internal Medicine, ENT, Ophthalmology, and Orthopedics rotations at this site. Also a 20 bed Mental Health Emergency Room Extension was opened in August 2010.
Second Site
Institution name: 
Baton Rouge General Medical Center -Mid City
Number of beds in hospital: 
450
Number of beds in ED: 
29
Total number of annual ED visits: 
53286
Pediatric visits (%): 
16
Admission rate (%): 
13
Admission admitted to critical care area( %): 
2
Total Number of EM rotation months: 
4
Miles from primary training institution: 
7
Unique Attributes: 
BRGMC-MC is an acute care not for profic, community based hospital that include the only reginal burn treatment center in South Louisiana. Our residents also rotate on the adult critical care service at this site. Rotating at this clinical site exposes our residents to a high volume of diverse patients, including a mixture of public and private patients as well as admitting staff.
Third Site
Institution name: 
Baton Rouge General Medical Center - Bluebonnet
Number of beds in hospital: 
200
Number of beds in ED: 
24
Total number of annual ED visits: 
34292
Pediatric visits (%): 
17
Admission rate (%): 
16
Admission admitted to critical care area( %): 
2
Total Number of EM rotation months: 
3
Miles from primary training institution: 
12
Unique Attributes: 
BRGMC-BB is a not-for-profit, tertiary, community hospital that has a "state of the art" emergency department. This facility is a boutique hospital that mainly treats highly insured patients. Rotating at this site provides our residents with an introduction to the private practice of emergency medicine. All admissions and referrals are to private medical staff.
Fourth Site
Institution name: 
Our Lady of the Lake Regional Medical Center
Number of beds in hospital: 
740
Number of beds in ED: 
65
Total number of annual ED visits: 
92000
Pediatric visits (%): 
30
Admission rate (%): 
17
Admission admitted to critical care area( %): 
3
Total Number of EM rotation months: 
2
Miles from primary training institution: 
10
Unique Attributes: 
OLOLRMC is the largest private medical center in Louisiana. This facility also has the only Pediatric Emergency Department int he Baton Rouge area as well as the largest PICU in the State. Our residents rotate on the Pediatric Emergency Department, PICU and Trauma services at this site. OLOLRMC is the only hospital in the region that provides neruosurgical serives as well as having an in-house trauma surgeon available 24/7
Faculty Attributes
Total number of all faculty: 
20
Number of core faculty: 
15
Number of clinical faculty: 
20
Number of non-clinical faculty: 
0
Female faculty (%): 
15
Program graduates who are program faculty (%): 
70
Number of faculty with additional training (Peds, Critical Care, Toxicology, EMS, etc.): 
0
Block Schedule
PGY-1: 
EM Orientation - 1 mo
Emergency Medicine - 4 mos
Pediatric Emergency Medicine - 1 mo
Emergency Medicine Ultrasound 1 mo
Anesthesia - 1 mo.
ENT/Ophthalmology - 1 mo.
Labor & Delivery - 1 mo
Medicine - 1 mo
Orthopedics - 1 mo
PGY-2: 
Emergency Medicine - 6 mos.
Pediatric Emergency Medicine -1 mo.
Emergency Medicine Research - 1 mo.
Adult ICU - 2 mos.
PICU - 1 mo.
Trauma - 1 mo.
PGY-3: 
Emergency Medicine - 7 mos.
Emergency Medicine Administration - 1 mo
EMS - 1 mo.
Elective - 1 mo.
Adult ICU - 1 mo.
PICU - 1 mo.
Resident Benefits
Annual PGY-1 Salary: 
44168.00
Uniform allowance per year: 
Provides 3 sets of scrubs in first year, then 1 set for the EM-2 and EM-3. A lab coat is provided in EM-1 year.
Number of vacation or personal days: 
21.00
Types of insurance coverage provided: 
Residents have the opportunity to enroll in fringe benefits offered by the State of Louisiana, i.e., health, life, etc. Long term disability insurance and professional liability insurance is provided.
Educational materials provided outside allowance per year: 
Yes
Unique resident benefits not listed above: 
Dues: Yes (ACEP, EMRA, SAEM) Subscriptions: Annals of Emergency Medicine and Academic Emergency Medicine Book allowance: Tintinalli and Emergency Medicine Board Preparation textbook. Conference stipend: Yes, maximum $500 in third year. Resident travel costs to present research is covered in addition to the basic stipend. Vacation Days: EM-1 residents have 21 vacation days, EM-2 and EM-3 residents have 28 vacation days.
Resident Graduate Attributes (last 5 years only)
Number of residents entering fellowship programs: 
3
Number of program graduates who are academic faculty: 
6
Number of program graduates who are non-academic clinicians: 
57
First time ABEM qualifying exam rate: 
75
First time ABEM oral exam pass rate: 
92