University of Alabama
History
"The major clinical facility within the Medical Center is UAB Hospital, consisting of approximately 1,100 beds in multiple separate structures. In 2015, UAB Hospital was ranked the nation's third-largest public hospital. The North Pavilion, opened in 2004, houses the University Emergency Department as well as a number of inpatient medical, surgical, and critical care beds and operating suites.
The second component Emergency Department is situated at Children's of Alabama, a 350-bed freestanding pediatric specialty hospital with a combined volume of more than 120,000 pediatric and adult visits to the ED in 2013, the UAB Emergency Medicine Residency Program provides the resident with exposure to a broad and deep variety of critical and non-critical adult and pediatric illnesses and injuries."
Leadership
- Department Chair: Janyce Stanford, MD, MBA, FACEP
- Program Director: Andrew R Edwards, MD, FACEP
- Associate/Assistant Program Director: Todd Peterson, MD
- Associate/Assistant Program Director: Charles Khoury, MD
- Research Director: Henry Wang, MD
Training Locations
Primary Hospital
- University of Alabama Hospital
Secondary Hospital
- Children's Hospital of Alabama
Tertiary Hospital
- Baptist South
Curriculum
PGY1
- 5 UED
- 1 Peds EM
- 1 Junior Trauma
- 1 Cardiology
- 1 Internal Medicine
- 1 MICU
- 1 OB
- Anesthesia/Ultra Sound (1 block)
- 1 Vacation (3 wks+ 1 week holiday)
PGY2
- 8.5 UED/Peds ED
- EMS (integrated with EM months)
- Trauma and Resuscitation (integrated)
- 1 Community ED
- 1 PICU
- 1 Elective
- .5 Ophthalmology
- 1 Vacation (3 wks+ 1 week holiday)
PGY3
- 8 UED/Peds EM (integrated with EM months)
- Trauma and Resuscitation (integrated)
- 1 Community EM
- 1 ED Administration/Research
- 1 Elective
- 1 Vacation (3 wks+ 1 week holiday)
Electives
Fellowships
- Ultrasound
- Research
- International
Contact Information
Adrienne Fowler, Residency Coordinator
- Phone: +1 205 934 3640
- Fax: +1 205 996 9590
- alfowler@uabmc.edu