Christiana Care Health Services Program

Program Identity & Fit

Christiana Care is a large, academic-community hybrid emergency medicine program built around an unusually high-volume, high-acuity clinical environment—Delaware's only Level I trauma center serving adults and children, with over 200,000 annual ED visits and a catchment spanning Delaware, southern New Jersey, and the mid-Atlantic. The three-year curriculum progresses from foundational ICU/EM/procedural rotations to critical-care proficiency to near-full-time departmental autonomy in PGY3, supported by branch-campus affiliations with Sidney Kimmel Medical College and PCOM. Research is structurally supported (SMART Research curriculum, dedicated biostatistician/research associate, annual symposium) but framed as an available and mentored track rather than a mandatory scholarly output requirement. Distinctive features include elective flexibility toward wilderness/austere medicine, EMS, ultrasound, and global health, a resident-run global health distinction track, and leadership development (LEED-R), suggesting the program values clinically versatile, systems-engaged residents comfortable in a high-acuity, trauma-heavy community-academic hybrid rather than a narrowly research-driven physician-scientist track.