Maricopa has a 23 year history of excellence in Emergency Medicine education. Our goal is to train emergency physicians to become “the doctor you want to be,” regardless of what type of physician that is… academic, community, leadership, research, advocacy, fellowship-bound, or any other permutation. Our residency philosophy commits to helping residents develop through individualized planning and opportunity throughout your three years. We are proud of our residents, graduates and program and continually strive to add to our already strong training.

MARICOPA EVOLVING

The EM residency at Maricopa Medical Center continues to grow its educational program. Our affiliation with the Banner Healthcare Network has been a success beyond our imagining. The partnership has added new venues and direction to our program. This year we will add new rotations in community EM, orthopedics, simulation and pelvic ultrasound. In 2011, electives in ID, stroke care, telemedicine and opthalmology will bolster the lineup. All of this has been done while we actually increased the amount of elective time provided! In addition, the residency now has access to two state of the art sim-centers: one at Good Samaritan, and the brand new (55-bed!!!) Simulation Center in Tempe

As part of the affiliation, Maricopa increased its residency to 14 residents per year, beginning with the intern class of 2009-10, added Dr. Nishant (Shaun) Anand as the Assistant Program Director responsible for rotations at Banner facilities, in addition to ultrasound faculty, a new Assistant Residency Director and an expert in advocacy. News

With this affiliation, Maricopa’s program truly became a Phoenix-wide program. The EM residents are exposed to every possible type of practice setting, patient population, trauma level and availability of consultants. There are rotations through 3 distinctly different pediatric ED’s, great autonomy and maintenance of our traditionally excellent educational opportunities.

THE ‘COPA MOVES The Maricopa EM program recently began offering an elective in international Emergency Medicine. Dr. Patrick Connell, one of the Maricopa faculty, works 6 months of the year as the director of La Clinica Esperanze in Honduras, and for the past year, has hosted an elective in international medicine. 8 residents each spent a month learning about tropical diseases, the clinic system of an impoverished country, how to fund and maintain overseas medical care and how to separate international medicine from medical tourism. In its first year, it became one of our most popular rotations and looks to continue the trend this year. The EM program would like to offer a big thank you to Dr. Connell for his hard work and dedication to set up and teach our docs. We would also like to congratulate Dr. Connell for his recognition as one of ACEP’s International Heroes of Emergency Medicine! Recognition

MARICOPA ADVOCACY The Maricopa residency began its advocacy initiative with its first fledgling project in providing free sports physicals to inner city children this past August. We followed this up on September 29th and 30th with a round table discussion and lecture by Dr. Jennifer Walthall, from Indiana University, focusing on how emergency physicians can best assist their patients and improve public health. This year, on August 7th, the program more than doubled the number of free exams for inner city kids.

The program currently has two residents on the board of directors of Arizona ACEP and will be looking to convert these first steps into a permanent part of our mission. We are looking for new avenues for our outreach. If you have an idea for a partnership, please contact Eric Katz at Eric_Katz@dmgaz.org.