Three essential components make UVM the ideal emergency medicine program:
Prominent Academic Medical Center
The UVM Medical Center provides a top-notch academic “home” for our training program, providing you with outstanding teaching and access to incredible research opportunities. This tertiary referral Level 1 Trauma center serves Vermont and northeastern New York, and, as the front door, our ED provides exposure to very high acuity and complexity.
Training Across the Entire Resource Spectrum
Here at UVM, through our wilderness medicine and global health opportunities, you will develop the skills and confidence to provide care in austere, resource-limited environments. You will become comfortable with point-of-care ultrasound, regional anesthesia, and many other bedside diagnostic and treatment modalities. Our rural and community EM experiences will teach you to practice independent of consultants, and make rapid decisions, including when transfer is indicated. These experiences will truly prepare you to work in any setting.
Amazing Location
We feel there is no better place to live and work than Burlington, Vermont. If you love the outdoors, whether it’s snow-covered mountain peaks, beautiful Lake Champlain, technical singletrack, or a competitive race scene, this is the place for you! The Burlington area provides a unique “small town” feel, while simultaneously offering incredible food, music, and a culture of wellness. Our faculty, and really everyone you will work with, is passionate about creating balance, having fun outlets, and living healthy lives.
Message from the Program Director
Building a new EM residency program in such a supportive environment has been the opportunity of a lifetime for me. After many years of work and preparation, our Emergency Medicine Residency Program has become a reality, and has been more successful than I could have ever imagined. Our first residents received a warm welcome in July of 2019, and we continue to build and adapt our program in response to the needs and desires of our first two classes. We strive to mentor Emergency Medicine residents to become outstanding clinicians who will find joy and meaning in their work and in their lives.
Richard Bounds, MD, FACEP, FAAEM
Program Director, Emergency Medicine
Fellowship Director, Medical Education Fellowship
Associate Professor, Department of Emergency Medicine