Dartmouth- Hitchcock-Mary Hitchcock Memorial Hospital Program

Emergency Medicine Analyst Verified · Sep 8, 2026

Dartmouth- Hitchcock-Mary Hitchcock Memorial Hospital Program

Dartmouth- Hitchcock-Mary Hitchcock Memorial Hospital Program is a residency program specializing in Emergency Medicine, located in Lebanon, New Hampshire, directed by John T. Moeller, MD, MHA, MS and coordinated by Judy Collins. The program accepts applications through November 1, 2027. International Medical Graduates interested in this program may contact the program coordinator directly at [email protected] or (603) 650-7317. IMGPrep analysts have verified and compiled this program’s IMG acceptance rate, USMLE Step 1 and Step 2 score requirements, Visa Sponsorship Policy, graduation year cutoff, and ECFMG certificate requirements — available to IMGPrep subscribers.

Program Identity & Fit

Dartmouth-Hitchcock's Emergency Medicine residency is a small (six residents/year), academically-affiliated but rurally-rooted program built around New Hampshire's only Level 1 Trauma Center, with a case-mix index and admission/critical-care rates rivaling urban tertiary centers despite serving a rural, critical-access-dependent region of northern New England. Clinical training spans tertiary care at DHMC, urban pediatric EM/trauma at Elliot Hospital, rural community EM at Cheshire, critical access care at Alice Peck Day, and DHART aeromedicine/telemedicine, giving residents exposure to both high-acuity resuscitation and rural healthcare delivery. The program is structured around graduated autonomy (RESUS/PAR3 shifts), heavy critical care exposure (22 weeks) alongside six dual-boarded EM/CCM faculty, and longitudinal tracks in wilderness medicine, global health, EMS/HEMS, ultrasound, critical care, healthcare administration, and medical education rather than mandatory research. Leadership explicitly frames residency training and clinical care - not research or fellowship output - as the department's central mission, and values individualized mentorship, regional retention, and comfort with rural-academic hybrid practice.

Who it fits

An applicant whose ERAS narrative centers on rural/wilderness medicine, EMS/critical care exposure, or a hybrid rural-academic career goal, and who has demonstrated interest in austere, resource-variable, or underserved emergency care rather than a purely subspecialty research trajectory.

Research intensity

Low - research, fellowships, and administrative pathways are available and supported through elective time and tracks, but the program explicitly states clinical care and residency training are its primary mission, not research.

Career orientation

Mixed - Community Practice, Fellowship, Academic Medicine

Important

The program states an explicit aim to retain graduates within Dartmouth-Hitchcock and other sites in the northern New England region, and offers a department-sponsored diversity scholarship for students systematically excluded from careers in medicine who are pursuing Emergency Medicine.

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