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
PED
Mercy Peds
Mercy ED
Peds Ward
Senior
UMMC ED
3
UMMC ED
PED
UMMC ED
PED/Comm
Sinai Peds
Anesthesia/US
4
Trauma
 UMMC ED/
VAC
UMMC ED/
Peds Mental Health
UMMC ED/
VAC
UMMC ED/
Peds Mental Health
5
UMMC ED/
VAC
OB/GYN
Peds Elective2
UMMC ED
PICU
6
Peds Ward
MICU
PED
Trauma
Comm/VAC/PED3

7

Adolescent
UMMC ED
Mercy Peds
Midtown ED
Peds Ward Senior
8
CCU
NICU
UMMC ED
Peds Elective2
UMMC ED
9
UMMC ED/US
Peds Outpt
(Cards/Pulm)
UMMC ED/US
PED Location
Optional1

Community ED

10
VA ED
Peds Elective2
Mercy ED
DC Children's 
Trauma 
EM Elective2
11
Night Float/ PED

VA ED

PICU
EM Elective
PED
12
Peds Ward
Trauma
Night Senior/VAC

BWMC ED

Peds Elective

13

Full Term Nursery
UMMC ED
Peds Ward
Senior
UMMC ED
Peds Elective2

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

VAC = Vaction

BMWC = Baltimore Washington Medical Center

Midtown = University of Maryland Midtown Campus

VA = Baltimore Veterans Affairs Medical Center

Trauma = R. Adams Cowley shock Trauma Center

Comm = Pedicatric Community/Ambulatory block

1 = Optional location (Hopkins, DC, other site)

2 = Call free

3 = 1 week PED pretending shift