List of Medical Schools for Emergency Medicine

Emergency medicine is a specialized discipline focusing on the prevention, diagnosis and management of acute and urgent aspects of illness and injury. Medical schools offering emergency medicine train students in the proper rehabilitation and response to these situations. Graduates with emergency medicine training work in public and private hospitals, health centers, non-government organizations such as the Red Cross, and other social service institutions.

The College of Emergency Medicine

• The College of Emergency Medicine in London provides students with proper training in pre-hospital and in-hospital emergency medical systems. It prides itself on being the authoritative body for emergency medicine in the United Kingdom and Ireland, where it works in conjunction with the Irish Association for Emergency Medicine. The college's curriculum and program includes: an introduction to emergency medicine; clinical care (documentation, diagnosis, time management, decision making, safe prescribing, continuity of care and therapeutic interventions); communication skills; maintaining good medical practice; ethics and legal aspects; pediatric emergency medicine; trauma and orthopedics; emergency department training; a specialty-specific curriculum with courses in resuscitation, major trauma and other injuries; spinal, abdominal and ENT conditions; urology; neurological emergencies; and research and management.

  The College of Emergency Medicine
  Churchill House
  35 Red Lion Square
  London, England
  WC1R 4SG
  United Kingdom
  011-44-20-7404-1999
  collemergencymed.ac.uk

Medical College of Georgia

• The Medical College of Georgia, founded in 1828, has long been Georgia's tertiary care teaching facility and referral hospital and offers several degrees and programs. The Department of Emergency Medicine strives to train students in the appropriate administration of emergency medicine to the sick and injured. The department has several specialties, including disaster medicine; event medicine, which provides medical support to large gatherings such as sporting events and conferences; emergency medical services; international humanitarian medicine, which enables students to travel abroad and administer care to individuals; maritime medicine, which includes first-aid at sea and dive medical training; public health and hospital emergency management, which includes training in hospital preparedness; emergency operations planning and tactical medicine for federal, state and local emergency planning as well as firearms and self-defense training; wilderness and survival medicine, which trains students in handling emergencies in a remote setting; emergency ultrasound; and pediatric emergency medicine.

  Medical College of Georgia
  1120 15th St.
  Augusta, GA 30912
  706-721-0211
  mcg.edu

Medical College of Wisconsin

• The Medical College of Wisconsin in Milwaukee has its own Department of Emergency Medicine specializing in diagnostic skills and hands-on training in the only Level 1 trauma center in southeastern Wisconsin. The program includes courses in orientation, adult emergency medicine, medicine and pediatric wards, trauma surgery, neurosurgical and cardiology ICU, adult anesthesia, community emergency medicine internships, pediatric anesthesia, ultrasound, and electives in toxicology, oral surgery and ophthalmology. In these courses students learn the basics of resuscitation, injury epidemiology, disaster medicine, traumatic brain injury, airway management and more. The department also has modern, state-of-the-art equipment in the form of an electronic medical record system, bedside ultrasound, dedicated CT scanner and Vocera headset communication technology.

  Medical College of Wisconsin
  8701 Watertown Plank Road
  Milwaukee, WI 53226
  414-456-8296
  mcw.edu