UPMC Medical Education Erie Program

Program Identity & Fit

UPMC Hamot's Emergency Medicine Residency is a community-based, hospital-affiliated three-year program set within a 458-bed tertiary care center that functions as a Level II trauma, chest pain, and comprehensive stroke facility, giving residents broad exposure to high-acuity and undifferentiated presentations across roughly 80,000 annual ED visits. The curriculum is structured to produce versatile generalists comfortable in academic, community, urban, and rural settings, with dedicated blocks in EMS, ultrasound, pediatric EM, trauma, and critical care rather than a subspecialty-track model. Scholarly activity is a structured expectation rather than optional: every resident completes a mentored research or QI project with defined year-by-year milestones, IRB submission, and conference presentation, supported by a Director of Medical Research and an in-house resident research guidebook. The program's stated aims emphasize compassion, service, and adaptability across practice environments over pursuit of a specific fellowship pipeline, reflecting a training identity oriented toward broad-based, community-connected clinical readiness.