About the Program, School, Sites, and City

The Program
The induction of Southern Illinois University’s emergency medicine residency program was a collaborative effort made between the SIU School of Medicine, Memorial Medical Center, and St. John’s Hospital to attend to the growing need for emergency medicine physicians throughout the country. Its faculty members are housed in Division of Emergency Medicine that was formed out of the Department of Surgery to fulfill the need for an academic presence in emergency medicine. Faculty members are actively involved in committees, projects, and research pertaining to medical education, quality improvement, patient safety, and public policy. The program’s main focus is to develop excellent clinicians, dedicated teachers, and effective leaders in emergency medicine through its residency training.

The School
The SIU School of Medicine is a 43 year institution whose main clinical basis inhabits the capital city and its surrounding areas. The school houses close to 300 medical students and in addition to its EM residency has well established residencies in pediatrics, family medicine, internal medicine, neurology, dermatology, obstetrics/gynecology, general surgery, plastic surgery, Orthopeadic surgery, ENT, and urology. The school has a long standing reputation as an innovator in medical education and its Academy for Scholarship in Education is known nationally for its contributions in educational research.

The Sites
In partnership with the school are Springfield’s two main hospitals that for over a century have been dedicated to serving and providing quality patient care to Springfield and its surrounding areas. Both are large tertiary care hospitals with a combined Emergency Department annual census exceeding 120,000. Memorial Medical Center (MMC) houses the Regional Burn Center. St. John’s Hospital (SJH) house the areas Children’s Hospital that has special capabilities in both Neonatal and a Pediatric Intensive Care Units. Both hospitals serve as the flagship hospitals of their respective health systems, Memorial Health System and Hospital Sisters Health System. Picture The Southern Illinois Trauma Center rotates between the two hospitals on an annual basis with the acting hospital designated the Level 1 Trauma Center for the year. This is just one of many unique example of the collaborative efforts of SIU, MMC, and SJH have made to serve its surrounding population. Both hospitals are equal partners in support of the Emergency Medicine Residency Program. In addition to our two primary education site is Taylorville Memorial Hospital (TMH), a sister hospital in the Memorial Health System. Located 30 miles away from Springfield with an annual volume of 16,000, TMH serves as our primary educational site for rural emergency medicine. Senior residents rotate through this recently renovated single coverage ED to experience the unique challenges of non-tertiary care center emergency medicine - a skill set very much needed in the majority of ED's across the nation today.

• Memorial Medical Center
• St. John's Hospital