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OHSU Hospital and Doernbecher Children's Hospital
The Emergency Medicine Residency Program is based at OHSU Hospital, the major teaching hospital for the School of Medicine, School of Nursing and School of Dentistry at OHSU. Residency programs are available in all major specialties and subspecialties. OHSU Hospital is the tertiary care center for Oregon and one of only two Level I trauma centers in the state. It serves as the only base station for on-line control of prehospital care in the greater Portland area.
All care provided in the ED, which serves both OHSU Hospital and Doernbecher Children's Hospital, is under the direct supervision of attending staffing which is provided 24 hours a day by Department of Emergency Medicine faculty.
Emergency medicine residents (EM II or III) provide the main staffing for the ED. They are also responsible for supervising students, managing patients primarily and responding to all major trauma cases. Residents from medicine, surgery, pediatrics, family practice, OB/GYN and emergency medicine interns rotate through the Emergency Department. In 1993 the academic faculty of the Emergency Departments of OHSU Hospital and the Portland Veterans Affairs Medical Center Emergency Care Unit were formally combined. The Portland VA provides a high volume, high acuity experience with an enhanced degree of resident responsibility. The two emergency units will see a combined annual volume of over 67,000 ED visits.
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Prospective Residents 
