Henry Ford Warren Hospital Program

Program Identity & Fit

Henry Ford Warren is a community-based, two-campus EM program (Warren, a Level III trauma/chest pain/stroke center, and Madison Heights, a lower-volume single-coverage ED) designed explicitly to produce generalist EM physicians comfortable across high-volume urban, suburban, and resource-limited settings. Residents rotate through Henry Ford St. John Hospital for urban trauma and pediatric EM, DMC Sinai-Grace or Shock Trauma-Baltimore for dedicated penetrating trauma exposure, and Children's Hospital of Michigan for one of the state's few pediatric ECMO-capable PICUs, giving graduates unusually broad exposure to varied practice environments rather than a single tertiary-center model. Research is supported through a dedicated Research Director and MSU GME Alliance case-poster/scholarly infrastructure, with residents presenting at ACEP/SAEM/ACOEP/MAOPS, but this is a scholarly-activity requirement layered onto a clinically dense community program rather than a physician-scientist track. The program explicitly frames itself as training clinicians who can "practice wherever they go," valuing hands-on procedural competency (ultrasound certification, SIM labs, trauma rotations) and adaptability over academic subspecialization.