Emergency Medicine Central Valley - Curriculum & Rotation Schedule

Rotation Sites

Kaiser Permanente Modesto Medical Center (MMC) is the 152-bed flagship hospital for Kaiser Permanente in the Central Valley. The Emergency Department has approximately 57,000 annual visits with 17.9% being pediatric visits. MMC is a regional stroke center and a regional STEMI center.

UCSF Benioff Children’s Hospital Oakland formerly known as Children’s Hospital Oakland, is a 191-bed teaching hospital. The hospital is a level 1 pediatric trauma center (1 of only 5 in California) with an average of 700 trauma patients per year. Children’s sees more than 45,00 emergency department visits per year.

Kaiser Permanente Oakland Medical Center: Kaiser Oakland Pediatric Intensive Care Unit (PICU) is a 12-bed unit with a diverse mix of medical and surgical patients, including post-cardiac surgeries. Residents will train in this high acuity educational setting with the support of 24 hour in-house intensivist coverage.

Doctors Medical Center is a 461-bed hospital with over 100,000 emergency department visit per year. Doctors is a level II trauma center and STEMI receiving center located near downtown Modesto.

Weekly Didactic Conferences

There are 4 hours of scheduled in person didactics and one hour of asynchronous learning per week. Our curriculum utilizes a combination of small group discussions, interactive lectures, mock oral board cases, simulations, hands on procedure lab, assigned readings, and practice questions to cover the core content of Rosen’s or Tintinalli’s twice over a three-year span.

Planned didactic conferences also include:

• Morbidity and Mortality Conferences
• Monthly Simulation Conferences
• EKG lecture series
• Faculty Bread and Butter Core Content Lectures
• Oral Board Review Cases
• Patient Safety and Quality Improvement Lectures and Workshops
• Research updates
• Journal Clubs
• Critically Appraised Topic Presentations
• Resident Complex Case Presentations
• US sessions

Electives

Residents at Kaiser Central Valley have 4 weeks of elective time during their training. A wide range of electives are available to help residents explore areas of emergency medicine in more depth. Residents can develop new electives (pending approval from the program director). Examples of elective opportunities are listed below.

• ED Administration
• Global Health
• Toxicology
• Advanced Ultrasound
• Medical Education/Simulation
• Ophthalmology
• Advanced Anesthesiology
• Radiology
• Sports Medicine
• EMS
• Community ED Elective (San Joaquin General Hospital in Stockton)
• Wilderness Medicine

Dedicated Longitudinal Tracks and Interest Groups

The program also offers longitudinal tracks and interest groups for our residents to help support their professional development and niche within emergency medicine. These groups typically meet quarterly for journal clubs and provide additional knowledge, interactive opportunity, and mentorship for our residents. Current tracks/interest groups are listed below.

• Education Track
• Social EM/Street Medicine Track
• FeminEM Interest Group

Additional Educational Opportunities

• Patient Safety Fellowship (non-ACGME): This is a one-year fellowship program, with up to two positions offered annually. Applications launch in late summer to early fall.
• Community Medicine Fellowship (non-ACGME): This is a 13-month fellowship program, with seven distinct fellowships offered in Community Health. Applications launch in late summer to early fall.