Catholic Health-St Joseph Hospital Program

Program Identity & Fit

St. Joseph Hospital's Emergency Medicine residency is a new (inaugural class July 2024), community-hospital-based program explicitly built around the model of training physicians for community Emergency Department practice rather than academic/university careers, with residents integrated as attending colleagues-in-training from day one. Clinical training is anchored at St. Joseph with substantial rotations at Good Samaritan University Hospital (a Level 1 adult/pediatric trauma center) and St. Catherine of Siena Hospital, giving graduated exposure to trauma, pediatrics, critical care, toxicology, EMS, and ultrasound without a home academic trauma center. The program is deliberately small (six residents per class), emphasizing individualized attending-resident mentorship, hands-on procedural autonomy, and "learn-by-doing" skill acquisition rather than research productivity or fellowship pipelines. Career outcomes are oriented toward broad-based community emergency medicine competence, with job-placement networking mentioned but no research infrastructure or academic-track emphasis described.