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PHI Air Medical Transport: Our helicopter service includes three A-Star B3 rotorcraft located in Albuquerque, Grants and Taos. Residents can function as assistant medical director for this service as well as fly as an elective during the PGY III year. PHI does a large number of scene flights around New Mexico which is a unique aspect of our air transport experience.
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The New Mexico Regional Federal Medical Center: The VA hospital in Albuquerque is actually the New Mexico Regional Federal Medical Center (NMRFMC) which cares for both VA patients, and Air Force personnel working at the adjacent Kirtland Air Force Base, and their dependents. It is a newly completed 404 bed hospital. The ED is administered through the UNM department of Emergency Medicine. Its excellent emergency physicians participate in the training of EM residents.
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In addition to providing medical care within the University Hospital emergency center, the Department of Emergency Medicine is responsible for the medical direction of the Emergency Medical Services Academy, New Mexico Poison Control Center, city and county rescue units, PHI Air Medical, Lifeguard Air Emergency Services, the Center for Disaster Medicine and the Center for Injury Prevention Research and Education. In 1991, the School of Medicine recognized the contribution of emergency medicine by granting full departmental status. The faculty is integrally involved in emergency medicine on the local, state and national levels. The leadership of the residency
program is provided by the Residency Program Director (PD) whose job it is to
have ultimate oversight of all facets of the program and the Associate and
Assistant PD’s. The Associate PD typically covers for the PD during leave, etc.
and has a major role in student electives and recruitment. The Assistant PD (s)
typically help with specific components of the curriculum, and with evaluations
and recruitment. These 3-4 core education faculty are also helped by faculty
members of the EMS Division, Peds Division and Research groups (typically the
research director) to make decisions about the direction, policy and procedures
of the residency. Faculty research interests include: Injury control and prevention, pediatric emergency medicine, Emergency Medical Services, disaster medicine, infectious disease, pain management, head injury and imaging modalities, including applications, triage, allocation of health resources, adolescent substance abuse, international emergency medicine, medical decision-making and ethics. |
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