I think it's all about the opportunities.
Here we're a four-year program and that provides you with the ability to - you can
do ultrasound, you can do critical care, you can participate in disaster projects.
We offer way more experiences than almost anybody else and it's very complete all
the way from community experience to the most tertiary care academic center
experiences that you can, we see way more trauma than anyone else, we're the State
Pediatric Trauma Center, we're the State Eye Trauma Center, we're a cardiac
consultation center, we're a stroke center. Patients here are actually a wonderful
group of patients to serve. They are diverse, very sick population of
patients, lots of social challenges, and it's really a wonderful place to learn how
to take care of patients.
It's a very diverse, very young type of a city. We've got a lot of schools in the area,
we've got a lot of hospitals in the area, we've got a lot of people who are also in
need in the area and so I think that having that mix of people contributes to
your experience as a person. Our four-year program is astoundingly unique.
There isn't another program in the country that offers as many fellowships as we do.
It embeds the first year of a fellowship program right into the four years so you
leave not just with the residency but essentially a fellowship of sorts under
your belt. The program is a phenomenal clinical
training program and has been for many years.
We're looking for people who are interested not just to take care of
patients but to think of how to advance our field.
There are many ways you can do that in emergency medicine and we're very lucky in
that we have a lot of very diverse areas of interest.
This not only involves being good clinically,
you know, which what happening in training before but it also means - ‪being able to think about research,
to change the way that we do things to improve patient care.
It also means trying to think about the way the system is currently run so that we
can improve wait times in the ER and improve the way we deliver healthcare,
teaming up with community resources to help people get access to primary care.
I think that at the end of the day your care for your patient is not just what you
do for them in the ER but it's what happens outside in their whole lives as well.
The ER is just one snapshot but you've got to think about the big picture as well.
The history of Hopkins is quite important overall to the experience of all residents
who come here. But what's really amazing about this
place is despite having such a long, long history well over a century that it
is astoundingly progressive and astoundingly young and that's what makes us so vibrant
and that's what keeps it number one year after year after year.
Our residents have the opportunity to choose between a number of areas,
niches we call them. The fast track is an opportunity for
residents to choose between one of the 11 specialties that we have here.
They learn about the types of work that people are doing, the types of research,
the types of careers they can develop after they graduate should they choose
that particular area. Within each of those tracks there is
a leader so each track has a person who's in charge. They have board-certified fellowship
trained faculty to mentor you and they have all of these resident alumni who have
walked the same path as aim walking now that have used these opportunities to add
success to their own careers.
It seeks progressive chairs, it seeks progressive residency directors and it
seeks and attracts progressive people, people who want to go somewhere,
people who want to do things, people who want to make a difference in their careers when
they leave here.
The people that I work with they've absolutely changed my life.
They are people who if it's three o'clock in the morning and have a problem
I know I can call them up. If I have a flat tire they'll come
and help me out. If it's somebody that I want to just go
and hang out in the museum with I can find somebody like that.
This is the kind of friendship that's going to last you a lifetime because we're
watching ourselves get married, we're watching ourselves have kids.
I think that camaraderie is just really adds to the experience here because you're
working hard and you need people to support you through it.
It's the number one hospital for now 20 years running and that can be somewhat
intimidating for people. Once you're here though it's not intimidating.
You really just get taken into the fold. Why? Because if you're here you deserve to be here.
Part of what's so great about being here is that everywhere you turn there are
people who are exactly like you. The students who are best suited to come
into Hopkins are those that are pretty solid at the core, they know what they
want, because this is the type of place that if you come, whatever you think your
potential is, it's such an amazing place that it will pull the potential that you
think you have and then add to it two or three times and you will come out of here
dazzled by what you've become and what your abilities are and who's interested in hiring
you and the kind of career that you can have.