Oregon Health & Science University OHSU Health Program

Program Identity & Fit

OHSU is one of the oldest emergency medicine residencies in the country, occupying a distinctive dual identity as Oregon's only publicly funded safety-net hospital and a quaternary academic referral center, and as the sole EM residency in the state it exposes residents to academic, community, and critical-access rural emergency department settings within a single program. Research is deeply embedded through the Center for Policy and Research in Emergency Medicine, a dedicated two-year research fellowship producing MCR/MPH-trained clinician-scientists, and the IDEA-EM initiative pairing residents/faculty with industry for device and technology commercialization. The program explicitly frames training as career-long professional development rather than technical skill acquisition, drawing faculty nationally to avoid a singular "house style" and offering named subspecialty strengths in toxicology, EMS, ultrasound, pediatric EM, and informatics. It signals value for heterogeneity of practice exposure, self-directed career development, and engagement with innovation/health-services research alongside clinical excellence.