University of Alabama Hospital Birmingham Program

Program Identity & Fit

UAB Emergency Medicine is a large, academic, tertiary/quaternary program built around a ~1,100-bed university hospital and a freestanding pediatric hospital, with heavy exposure to trauma, critical care, and high-acuity resuscitation, supplemented by a community ED rotation in Montgomery for lower-acuity, higher-volume experience. The program is structured around eleven named scholarly tracks (Critical Care, EMS, PEM, Toxicology, Ultrasound, Global Health, Administration, Education, Research, Wilderness Medicine) chosen in year two, explicitly designed to build fellowship- or faculty-oriented proficiency and sustained mentorship rather than generic exposure. Research is embedded departmentally (resuscitation science, medical toxicology, geriatric EM, population health, ultrasound) with federal partnerships (CDC, NIH, FDA) and a mandatory scholarly project, though the emphasis is on applied/clinical scholarship rather than a physician-scientist pipeline. The program explicitly prizes early graded autonomy, one-on-one attending mentorship, and resident "ownership" of the ED, valuing residents who are self-directed, procedurally hungry, and drawn to a defined subspecialty niche.