Emergency Medicine

Program Director: Kelly Correa, MD
Associate Program Director: Dominique Hill, MD, FACEP
Program Administrator: Tammy Lee
Chief Residents 2023: Etienne Galbreath, DO and Anna Trujillo, MD

Program Description

Current Residents: 24
Projected Residents Per Year: 8 starting July 2024
Years of Training: 3 starting July 2024
Emergency Physicians on Staff: 28
Annual ED Volume: 53,000

ATTENTION APPLICANTS: We participate in the National Resident Matching Program (NRMP). Our ACGME program number is 1102500197.

Welcome Letter from Program Director, Kelly Correa, MD

Anyone, anything, anytime. No better succinct description has been given for our chosen field of Emergency Medicine. With the possibility of anything happening in your future department, don't you want to have training that will prepare you for just that? Trinity Health Livonia's Emergency Medicine residency will provide that level of training for you. We provide a high level of critical care patient volume balanced with a focus on physician wellbeing.

Trinity Health Livonia is located in Livonia, Michigan and is one of the hospitals in Trinity Health Michigan, part of Trinity Health. We offer many unique qualities in an emergency medicine residency. Our hospital features a newly built 56-bed emergency department, including zones for fast track, seniors, behavioral health, acute care, and four dedicated trauma/resuscitation rooms. Along with our new facility comes new equipment including four ultrasound machines in the ED (Mindray M9, a Sonosite Edge, and a Sonosite M-Turbo), dedicated in-department CT, and a stroke robot that is used in collaboration with the Michigan Stroke Network. We have been granted accreditation by the American College of Surgeons as a level II trauma center. We have Geriatric Emergency Department Accreditation by the American College of Emergency Physicians. Additionally, we offer a 24-hour catheterization lab for PPCI. Our EMR is Epic. Each of our attending physicians is board-certified or board-eligible in emergency medicine and has varying interests ranging from critical care to emergency ultrasound to research to advocacy. Our program is one of six at our facility, including family medicine, internal medicine, psychiatry, transitional year, and podiatry.

Our faculty are supportive, engaged, and committed to educating our residents. We believe in developing well-rounded residents who are capable of working in any environment. To accomplish that goal, our faculty work one-on-one with each resident from day one. All faculty have a commitment to excellence in emergency medicine education, which is reflected in our focus on high-yield, high-quality didactic and clinical instruction as well as on-going faculty development to maintain consistently high standards of teaching. Faculty at Trinity Health Livonia range from attendings who have been here for 20 years or more to recent graduates from our own program.

Your education will take place not only in our new, state-of-the-art emergency department, but also through various wards in our suburban teaching hospital. Specialty rotations will also take place at Trinity Health Ann Arbor, Children's Hospital of Michigan in Detroit, St John's Hospital in Detroit, and the Shock Trauma Center in Baltimore, MD.

Superb weekly didactic sessions include TED-style talks and case-based learning that will keep you involved and attentive. Didactic sessions also include weekly oral board review, board prep questions, pediatric updates, and clinical cases. In addition to didactics, we supplement board and in-service preparation with Rosh Review, HIPPO EM, and Peer IX. We offer five SIM and four procedure days per year(2 combined with US labs), as well as a cadaver lab. We have an aggressive ultrasound curriculum beginning first year and continuing throughout the three years.

As our residency is affiliated with Michigan State University - College of Osteopathic Medicine, we participate in the Michigan Statewide Campus System (SCS). In addition to our weekly didactics at Trinity Health Livonia, we meet once a month for SCS in Troy, Michigan with all other surrounding MSU-SCS EM residents. At SCS, lectures are provided from guest EM speakers. SCS also sponsors multiple SIM labs, procedure labs and other events that are held throughout the year.

Our commitment to evidence-based medicine will prepare you to stay on the cutting edge of medical education, not just during residency but also throughout your career. We have a faculty run journal club, which meets at least 8 times per year. Topics for journal club range from implicit bias to coronavirus updates to the latest research in cardiology. Core faculty support residents in both clinical research projects and quality improvement initiatives.

Our three-year program gives you the time to develop an area of interest, with available specialty tracks including administration/global health, pediatrics, sports medicine, EMS, and ultrasound. Additionally, our three-year residents are treated as junior attendings. The third-year residents focus on managing their section, including taking and giving all sign-outs and working with medical students and rotating residents.

As a graduate of our residency program, you will be able to live and practice in the setting you desire. Our graduates work in academic and non-academic settings from rural to suburban to urban throughout the country. Some have pursued fellowship training in fields such as sports medicine, critical care, and administration. Others have used our ultrasound curriculum as a springboard to obtain RDMS certification as part of the residency program.

We are an ACGME fully accredited program and we participate in the NRMP match.

Thank you for looking into our program. We look forward to hearing from you soon.

Kelly Correa MD, Program Director
Trinity Health Livonia Hospital
Emergency Medicine

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