2025 Application Process and Recent Changes for Medical Students

Interested in learning more about the emergency medicine ResidencyCAS application process? Tune in to our webinar to review key timelines and details for the 2025-2026 application cycle, including recent changes for medical students.

For more information on ResidencyCAS, check out the SAEM RAMS ResidencyCAS infographics, which give medical students and residency applicants a clear, accessible overview of the ResidencyCAS process and updates in Emergency Medicine residency applications. Have questions about ResidencyCAS? Submit them here.

Authors

  • Tim Fallon, MD

    Maine Medical Center Emergency Medicine

    Dr. Tim Fallon is the Associate Program Director for the Maine Medical Center Emergency Medicine residency, and an Assistant Professor of Emergency Medicine at Tufts University School of Medicine. Dr. Fallon is the current Chair of the CORD Application Process Improvement Committee.

  • Erin McDonough, MD

    University of Cincinnati

    Dr. McDonough is the Residency Program Director and Professor of Emergency Medicine at the University of Cincinnati College of Medicine. She completed her medical school education at the Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine, graduating in 2004. She then trained at the University of Cincinnati, completing her Emergency Medicine residency training in 2008 (serving as Chief Resident in 2007-2008) and then a Neurocritical Care and Neurovascular Emergencies Fellowship in 2010. After training, she joined the faculty at UC as an Assistant Program Director for the Emergency Medicine Residency Program. She has served as Program Director since 2017.

  • Liza Smith, MD

    Associate Program Director and Clerkship Director

    UMass Chan School of Medicine - Baystate Medical Center

    Liza Smith, MD, attended Medical School at Boston University School of Medicine and completed residency at the Harvard Affiliated Emergency Medicine Residency program through Mass General Brigham. Since graduating from residency, she has been academic faculty at UMass Chan School of Medicine - Baystate Medical Center where she serves as an Associate Program Director and Clerkship Director. She has previously served as Chair of CORD ASCEM and is the immediate past chair of CORD APIC with ongoing commitment to improving student advising resources and the application process.

  • Alexis Pelletier-Bui, MD

    Assistant Professor of Emergency Medicine, Associate Residency Program Director, and Emergency Medicine Subspecialty Advisor

    Cooper University Hospital/Cooper Medical School of Rowan University

    Dr. Alexis Pelletier-Bui is the Associate Program Director for the Emergency Medicine Residency Program, and an Associate Professor of Emergency Medicine at Cooper Medical School of Rowan University (CMSRU) where she also serves as the CMSRU EM subspecialty advisor. Dr. Pelletier-Bui is the Application Process Improvement Committee (APIC) liaison to the Council of Residency Directors in EM (CORD) Board of Directors, and is a prior APIC Chair.

  • Elizabeth Barrall Werley, MD

    Residency Program Director & Assistant Professor of Emergency Medicine

    PennState Health

    Elizabeth Werley, MD, is core faculty and the former Program Director for the Emergency Medicine residency program at Penn State Health Hershey Medical Center, and an Associate Professor of Emergency Medicine at the Penn State College of Medicine. She served as the Application Process Improvement Committee Chair from 2023-2024 and has remained an active leader in the committee since her term.

  • Shayne M. Gue, MD, MSMEd

    BayCare Health System / St. Joseph's Hospital

    Dr. Gue was born and raised in Huntington, West Virginia, where he earned his medical degree from the Joan C. Edwards School of Medicine at Marshall University in 2015. He completed his Emergency Medicine Residency at AdventHealth East Orlando where he led as Chief Resident, was named Resident of the Year, and served as President of the Emergency Medicine Residents’ Association of Florida.

    Dr. Gue currently serves on the Executive Committee for the Florida College of Emergency Physicians and serves as Co-Chair of the Membership and Professional Development Committee and the Symposium by the Sea Planning Committee. He is also actively involved in national committees within ACEP and SAEM. Dr. Gue is a national speaker, having presented for ACEP, SAEM, CORD, IMSH, and ACOEP.

    He is a proud graduate of the American College of Emergency Physicians Teaching Fellowship and completed a Master’s in Medical Education from the Lake Erie College of Osteopathic Medicine. He is the recipient of the AdventHealth GME Faculty of the Year Award for 2020, the ACEP Microteaching Award for 2021, the UCF Innovative Teaching Award for 2022, and was selected to the 2022 Class of the ACEP Young Physicians Leadership Society. More recently, he was awarded the UCF Educational Excellence Award and the ACEP National Junior Faculty Teaching Award for 2023.

    His educational interests are focused on developing novel approaches to graduate medical education through the use of interactive curriculum design, gamification, faculty development, and educational scholarship in innovative teaching strategies.

  • Sara Schulwolf

    Member-at-Large

    University of Connecticut School of Medicine

    Sara Schulwolf is a dual MD/MPH student at the University of Connecticut, currently applying into emergency medicine. This is her second year serving on the SAEM-RAMS Board, after previously holding the role of medical student representative.

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