Maimonides Emergency Medicine Residency

High Volume, Diverse Populations

As the largest hospital in Brooklyn, we see over 120,000 patients annually, including over 30,000 pediatric patients. This makes us one of the busiest hospitals in both New York City and New York State. Maimonides is in the heart of Brooklyn, surrounded by neighborhoods with diverse populations, and with it, a wide range of pathologies, social systems, and cultural beliefs that impact our practice.

Level 1 Adult Trauma, Level II Pediatrics Trauma

Maimonides is a level 1 adult trauma center and the only Pediatric Trauma Center in Brooklyn. In the PGY-2 year, four weeks are spent at the R Adams Cowley Shock Trauma Center in Baltimore, Maryland, one of the nation’s largest trauma centers, where the idea of the “Golden Hour” was born. Shock Trauma serves as a major trauma referral center and delivers care to over 5,000 trauma patients per year.

Exceptional Leadership

The Maimonides EM faculty includes over 70 full-time attending physicians, including numerous fellowship trained faculty in ultrasonography, pediatrics, medical informatics, addiction, critical care, simulation, toxicology and prehospital medicine. We have world renowned educators and researchers including Reuben Strayer of emupdates.com, Sergey Motov of PainFreeED, and more. Members of our emergency department faculty also currently serve in hospital-wide administrative roles at Maimonides.

Emergency Department-Based EMS System

Our fourteen hospital based ambulances respond to nearly 60,000 911 calls, which provides residents plenty of ride along opportunities to experience the full breadth of prehospital medicine. Our EMS program also provides medical control for emergency response ambulances, including the largest private and volunteer ambulance services in the 5 boroughs, and has become the second largest online medical control facility in the city of New York. Residents also undergo orientation at the FDNY 911 dispatch center, in addition to emergency preparedness training for mass casualties and weapons of mass destruction.

Residents are encouraged to participate in an array of event medicine opportunities, including being a physician at the U.S. Open, concerts and sporting events held at Madison Square Garden, baseball games at Yankee Stadium, and various multi-day music festivals in several states (Burning Man in Nevada, Moonrise Music Festival in Maryland, and multiple music festivals held at The Gorge Amphitheatre in eastern Washington)

Academic Research

Our robust research division employs a research director, manager, associates, fellows and close to 50 volunteers, who are all actively supporting faculty, residents, and fellows in conducting cutting edge research in the areas of pain management, ultrasonography, pediatrics, prehospital care, patient safety, resident wellness, emergency department operations, and more. The division has received numerous state and hospital-funded grants to support these innovative projects and publications. In the academic year of 2017-2018, our department conducted 60 research projects, presented 40 abstracts, published 41 journal articles and 2 book chapters, and participated in 50 national/international conferences. As of 2022, we have received $1.8 million dollars of grant funding.