Emergency Medicine

Supervised by the attending emergency room physician at Olean General Hospital, you’ll train during high-volume shifts. You’ll learn how to take a logical, structured, systemized approach to diagnosing and managing emergency conditions.

You’ll understand the function of the emergency department in the context of the hospital and the community, and you’ll recognize the psychological and family dimensions of emergency situations.

OGH’s emergency department experiences a high volume of patients — cases that, in larger cities, would likely be referred to specialty pediatric hospitals and trauma centers. Additionally, the hospital has Mercy Flight facilities, so many emergency patients arrive at OGH to be stabilized, admitted or transferred.

This training environment promises to foster confidence in your role in emergency medicine — whether you’ll be using the ER for your continuity patients or serving as an ER attending physician.

You’ll learn such skills as:

• nasal packing
• splint and casting application
• CVP application
• ECG monitoring and interpreting
• endotracheal intubation
• laceration repair
• abscess I&D
• thoracentesis
• arthrocentesis
• foreign body removal (skin, eye)
• lumbar puncture

You’ll learn how to diagnose and treat:

• respiratory emergencies
• congestive heart failure
• myocardial infarcation or dysrhythmia
• pulmonary edema
• angina
• acute neurologic events, including convulsions and encephalopathy
• dermatological emergencies
• emergent gynecologic conditions
  
• acute and chronic poisonings
• fractures and joint injuries
• psychiatric emergencies
• common lacerations

PGY-1 and 2

• 4 weeks (PGY-1)
• 4 weeks (PGY-2)