Emergency Medicine

Program Overview

The EM residency training program is 4 years of ACGME accredited training program at HMC and is considered as one of the best programs in the region. The trainees rotate in the emergency department and also in the core specialties associated with the emergency medicine. The trainees work under direct or indirect supervision of trained faculty members and gain medical knowledge and learn important clinical skills to provide the best patient care.

Vision

Our Vision is to become the leading center of excellence in Emergency Medicine Residency Training in the region.

Mission:

Our Mission is to offer well-balanced, up-to-date and evidence-based emergency medicine education, knowledge and training, in order to produce high quality and trained emergency physicians who would provide safe, effective, timely, appropriate, and adequate emergency care to all patients and their families, irrespective of age, gender, ethnicity or religious background. We are aiming to produce excellent emergency physician with great leadership and management skills, professionalism, evidence-based approach and expertise to provide the best quality care to all their patients.

Methodology

Implementation of a well supervised academic and clinical exposure with well-planned quality didactic teaching, utilizing experienced emergency medicine faculty throughout the 4-year training period.

The clinical schedule is designed to provide graded supervision and progressive responsibility, covering a wide spectrum of case mix and patient population to enable the trainee to practice emergency medicine from fully dependent physician to independent practitioner progressively over four years of training.The trainees rotate in all the core specialties of EM program. They are evaluated and provided feedback. They gain relevant medical knowledge and core skills of the specialty. These rotations help them in their grooming as a future leader in the field of EM.

The experiential learning will be maximized using multiple patient encounters and skill lab simulations, with frequent assessments by supervising faculty. The program will also incorporate development of teaching skills, leadership and research. Residents will be regularly evaluated using established tools to ensure satisfactory achievements in all the core competencies outlined by ACGME-I. There is weekly full day didactic teaching sessions which covers all the important topics, lectures, workshops, interactive sessions. The trainees also attend mortality and morbidity conferences, grand journal club and simulation sessions. The trainees write MCQ exams for self-improvement and also attend OSCE and oral board scenarios to improve their communicating, leadership and management and the clinical management skills.

Goals and Objectives

​Educational Goals and Objectives of Emergency Medicine Training Program

Hamad Medical Corporation, Doha, Qatar

Program Design to achieve goals and Objectives:

The Program is designed in such a way that it fulfills the need and requirements of the program. The program is designed in such a way that it helps in achieving the goals and objectives set by the program. The program is designed:

1. To train trainees as a competent, mature and respected physician who are capable of efficiently recognizing, resuscitating, stabilizing, evaluating and caring for acutely ill or injured patients of all ages.
2. To train residents to recognize and prioritize patients in emergency department and deal with the priorities for evaluation as well as treatment of multiple emergency department patients with different complaints and needs.
3. To train residents to identify those patients who require emergent consultation with other specialties or require timely emergency procedures and intervention for life saving or limb saving. Residents are also expected to become trained and expert in timely, appropriate follow-up care and referral for patients seen in the emergency department as is required by their clinical condition so that continuity of care is maintained.
4. To train physicians capable and experienced in the management of pre-hospital care of acutely ill or injured patients. In addition, residents will have exposure to the administrative structure of emergency medical services through a close association with the HMC Emergency Medical Services department.
5. To provide support and guidance to trainee physicians to have a full understanding of the emergency medical service system including awareness of how the system is managed and how quality assurance in the pre-hospital care setting can be achieved.
6. To develop and polish their skills of administration and teaching of emergency medicine.
7. Residents will be trained to understand research methodologies in emergency medicine and will learn how to apply them, both through critical reading and review of research articles and through practical experience with departmental research and scholarly activities.
8. To teach residents an understanding of basic research methodologies, statistical analysis, and critical analysis of current medical literature.
9. To establish and maintain an environment of inquiry and scholarship.
10. To teach residents about the practical aspects of the economics, as well as contractual arrangements of the practice of emergency medicine.
11. In addition, the appropriate interaction between the emergency medicine physician and his professional colleagues and the medical staff is emphasized. The role of the emergency medicine physician in the hospital, the importance of involvement in medical staff activities and also the understanding of how medical staff committee structure functions is stressed.
12. To emphasize humanism in medicine such as the ethical issues regarding physician-patient interaction, especially in relevance to emergency medicine
13. To educate and train the residents about the importance of the medical record as a legal document and a risk management tool. They are trained to learn the art of appropriate and legible documentation for safe patient management and disposition.
14. To give residents training and experience in teaching emergency medicine to other fellow residents, attending physicians, nurses as well as to medical students in the emergency department. They learn how to communicate with others and how to do quality presentations. They get expertise in interactive presentations and evidence-based topic presentation.
15. To facilitate the efficient use of various information resources and apply evidence-based medicine to continually update their clinical practice.
16. To teach residents how to effectively communicate with patients, families and other health care professionals, with appropriate feedback to make communications even more effective.
17. To teach utilization of local and community resources to address public health issues such as domestic violence, substance abuse and homelessness, and teach about violence prevention.
18. To teach them to deal with sensitive issues of Do Not Resuscitate policy, breaking Bad news, Organ transplant and brain death issues while in emergency department.
19. To teach them the issue of dealing with minors, dealing with consent policies and issues
20. To demonstrate the fundamental qualities of professionalism, and to feedback on any activities not viewed as entirely professional.
21. To demonstrate how optimal patient care is provided in the context of the entire health care delivery system by effectively and thoughtfully using available system resources to support the best care possible for patients.
22. To educate and train residents about how to provide appropriate patient education about their medical illnesses and injuries, while teaching methods of injury and illness prevention.
23. To allow residents to demonstrate competency in all of the six core competencies (Patient Care, Medical Knowledge, Practice-based Learning and Improvement, Interpersonal and Communication Skills, Professionalism and Systems-based practice).
24. To teach an evidence-based emergency medicine approach.
25. To teach the essentials of the clinical applications of bedside ultrasonography (Point of care ultrasound). They are trained to use Ultrasound as diagnostic and evaluation tool in emergency for timely identification of serious and life-threatening condition or to rule out this condition, and also as a tool to assess the response to treatment given.
26. To utilize low and high-fidelity simulation as an adjunct to the educational curriculum.
27. To instruct residents in the basic principles of emergency toxicology.
28. The broader aim of the institution is to establish a health care system where everyone in the country has access to emergency services 24/7 and get the best quality care. The trainees are trained to cater this requirement and provide the timely care and services to the patients and plan for appropriate and timely disposition by admitting to required specialty, transferring to required specialty or referring to suitable department (Primary health care, Outpatient departments).

Clinical Training and Key Rotations

(list of blocks by program year)

Contact Information

Program Director:​
Dr. Shahzad Anjum

Associate Program Director(s)
Dr. Zeinab Abd Elmohsin Mostafa
Dr.​ Muna Ismail A.A. Al Musleh

Program Coordinator:
MD Jamal Uddin

Program Email:
Mluddin3@hamad.qa​