Medical College of Wisconsin Affiliated Hospitals Program

Program Identity & Fit

MCW is a long-standing academic emergency medicine program (established 1978) built around a Level I adult trauma center (Froedtert), one of the nation's busiest pediatric Level I trauma EDs (Children's Wisconsin), a high-acuity VA emergency department, and a community Level III site (Froedtert Menomonee Falls), giving residents graduated exposure from tertiary/quaternary trauma to community-volume operations without leaving one regional medical campus. The program is structurally invested in prehospital and critical-care medicine, with a three-year longitudinal EMS curriculum, medical control roles over Milwaukee County EMS/Fire/SWAT, an optional Flight For Life flight physician track, and named scholarly tracks in EMS and point-of-care ultrasound. Research is embedded (mentored scholarly project required, dedicated resident research curriculum, MART infrastructure, NIH/SAMHSA/PCORI-funded faculty work in resuscitation, injury, substance use, and global/health-equity EM) but is structured as a requirement and resource rather than a defining identity, consistent with a program oriented toward producing well-rounded community and academic EM clinicians rather than dedicated physician-scientists. Early, hands-on procedural and leadership responsibility (interns run trauma airways and EMS ride-alongs) alongside a heavily protected didactic/simulation curriculum suggests the program values residents who want progressive autonomy in a high-volume, high-acuity, multi-site training environment.