Rotations

EM 1 Year:

The month of July is dedicated to Intern Orientation.  Emergency Medicine Interns will spend the month of July in lectures, cadaver/simulation labs, 2-day Ultra Sound Course, BLS, ACLS and PALS courses.  Interns will work 6-8 shifts in the emergency department during orientation month.  ATLS will take place in the months of August and September prior to your first trauma rotation.   

First year residents will spend 3 months assigned to the emergency medicine department here at the University of Nebraska Medical Center and 1 month in the Pediatric Emergency Room at Children's Hospital here in Omaha.  Our Orthopaedics rotation is performed in our emergency department where the resident will see all ortho related complaints.  We are pleased to have Dr. Wesley Zeger as our Ultrasound rotation director for the ED based ultrasound rotation.  The remaining rotations listed above are all one month rotations here at the University of Nebraska Medical Center.

EM 2 Year:

The EM II year is a very busy and exciting year!  The EM resident will spend 7 months scheduled to rotate in the Emergency Department with one of the months dedicated to a rural rotation site.  The resident will spend one month in North Platte, Nebraska for this rural rotation.  Second year residents will also spend one month on the toxicology rotation under the direction of Drs. Kirschner and Barthold, who are also faculty in our department. Residents are also given an elective during this year.  The elective month is fairly flexible with many options for rotation and location.  The PICU month will be spent at Children's Hospital in Omaha and both the AICU and NeuroSurg rotations will take place here at UNMC.

The EM 3 year is spent mostly in our emergency department here at UNMC. One month is dedicated to learning the administrative side of emergency medicine as well as EMS and Flight Medicine.  The remaining 3 rotations were created to allow our senior residents to focus in areas of their choice.  We offer 2 senior selectives where seniors can choose one of 4 offered rotations; Pediatric Emergency, AICU, PICU, or Rural EM.  Finally we offer the elective rotation.  Residents may use this rotation to focus on an area where they want to gain additional knowledge or use this as an opportunity to experience a rotation in a specialty that will not be experienced after graduation.