Brief Introduction
The Affinity Medical Center Emergency Medicine (EM) program is part of the Northeast Ohio Emergency Medicine Consortium (NOEMC) which consists of four (4) EM residency programs:
- Affinity Medical Center; Massillon, OH
- South Pointe Hospital (a Cleveland Clinic Hospital); Warrensville Heights, OH
- St. John Medical Center (SJMC); Westlake, OH
- Summa Western Reserve Hospital; Cuyahoga Falls, OH
Although we rotate mainly at our home base hospital, we rotate within each hospital to gain experience in hospital systems with differing populations, ED size and hospital capabilities. Currently, the Affinity Medical Center emergency department (ED) is a 16 bed facility designated as a Level III trauma center. The average annual ED volume is 30,000-35,000 with a 1:1 or 2:1 attending physician to resident ratio. Slated to begin soon, an expansion will increase the facility to 26 total beds. Our residents work closely with an exceptional group of attending physicians, many of which graduated from this program.
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Mission and Vision
"The Mission of the Northeast Ohio Emergency Medicine Consortium is to provide an organized educational experience that leads to competent practice of emergency medicine. The training shall be based on educational goals and objectives that exceed those outlined in the Basic Residency Standard. Training will cover all topics presents in the Core Curriculum. It is the mission of this residency to produce the best osteopathic emergency medicine physicians in the country."
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General Program Information
As part of the consortium, all ERAS applications are submitted to the South Pointe EM Residency Program. Each of the participating programs request applicants, set up their own application processes, and have unique match numbers in ERAS. As a result, please send your application through South Pointe and contact our Angela Wilkerson, Administrative Director of Medical Education, by clicking here or calling 330-834-4785. Applicants can interview with any one or all of the hospitals as we hold them separately.
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Curriculum (Please break this down by OGME year)
OGME-1
Emergency Medicine - 4 months
Peds EM - 1 month
IM - one month
Cardio/Cardiothoracic surgery - one month
IM Nights - one month
Ortho - 1 month
Surgery - 1 month
OB/GYN - 1 month
ICU - 1 month
OGME-2
Emergency Medicine - 6 months
Cardiology - 1 month
IM - 1 month
Radiology/Anesthesia - 1 month
ICU - 1 month
PICU - 1 month
Peds ER- 1 month
OGME-3
Emergency Medicine - 5 months
Peds EM - 1 month
Trauma - 1 month
Life Flight - 1 month
ICU - 1 month
OB/GYN - 1 month
ENT - 1 week
Ophtho - 1 week
Pediatric Anesthesia - 1 week
Pediatric Procedural Sedation - 1 week
Neurology - 1 month
OGME-4
Emergency Medicine - 9 months
Life Flight - 1 month
Administrative - 1 month
Elective - 1 month
Burn - 1 week
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Didactic Schedule (subject to change)
- Affinity EM Didactic Sessions (Tuesday mornings at 6-7am): weekly sessions to review EKGs, imaging, journal articles, procedures, etc.
- Northeast Ohio EM Consortium Didactics (Thursday mornings from 7am-12pm): attending given lectures; each year we alternate going through two textbooks: (1) Rosen’s Emergency Medicine-Concepts and Clinical Practice and (2) Tintinalli’s Emergency Medicine: A Comprehensive Study Guide; PEER VIII board review questions are reviewed weekly.
- RPAC - several times per year we meet for lectures with all other EM programs in the state of Ohio
- Skills labs, Simulation labs
- Dog Lab - twice per year to practice ED skills such as cricothyroidtomy, chest tubes, open thoracotomies, etc.
- Ultrasound training - 4 labs per year
- OSCEs
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Faculty Information
- Gary Richardson, DO; Director, Affinity Medical Center EM Program
- Michael Kelley, DO; Consortium Director and Program Director, South Pointe EM Residency Program
- Affinity Medical Center EM Attendings
- Jason Ashbaugh, DO
- Andrew Culver, DO
- John Current, DO
- David Didur, DO
- Darryl Donald, MD
- Stephen Dubos, DO
Residents
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Benefits (anything the program may provide the residents outside of what the hospital or Med Ed department does)
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