EMPeds Block Diagram

Here is a sample block schedule for residents in the combined emergency medicine and pediatrics program. 

 BLOCK

PGY1
PGY2
PGY3
PGY4
PGY5
1 
UMMC ED
Behavior and
Development
Trauma
Anesthesia
NICU
Trauma ICU
2
Trauma
Mercy
Pediatrics
Mercy ED
Peds
Ward Senior
UMMC ED
3
UMMC ED
Peds ED
UMMC ED
Peds ED
Peds Anesthesia/
Ultrasound
4
UMMC ED/
Peds ED
 UMMC ED/
Peds ED
UMMC ED/
Peds Prof Dev
Peds ED/
UMMC ED
UMMC ED/
Peds  Prof Dev
5
Night Float/
Peds ED
OB/GYN
Peds Elective
UMMC ED
PICU
6
Peds Ward
MICU
Peds ED
Trauma
Peds Night Senior/
Peds ED

7

Adolescent
UMMC ED
Mercy
Pediatrics
PG ED
Peds
Ward Senior
8
CCU
NICU
UMMC ED
EM Elective
UMMC ED
9
UMMC ED/
Ultrasound

Peds Elective

UMMC ED/
Ultrasound
Peds ED1 

UMMC ED

10
VA ED
Full Term
Nursery
Mercy
ED
DC Children's 
Trauma 
EM Elective2
11
Peds ED

VA ED

PICU
Peds Elective
Peds ED
12

Peds Ward
Trauma
Night Senior/
Peds ED

Community ED

Peds Elective

 

13
Peds Elective
UMMC ED
Peds
Ward Senior
UMMC ED
Peds Elective

Three weeks of vacation per year are incorporated into each resident's block schedule.

Legend:

CCU = Coronary Care Unit, University of Maryland Medical Center '

Mercy = Mercy Medical Center

NICU = Neonatal Intensive Care Unit, University of Maryland Medical Center

PICU = Pediatric Intensive Care Unit, University of Maryland Medical Center

UMMC = University of Maryland Medical Center

VA = Baltimore Veterans Affairs Medical Center

Trauma = R Adams Cowley Shock Trauma Center

PG = Prince George’s County Hospital

1 = UMMC PED or DC Children’s PED

2 = Call free