Fort Worth EM Residency Program – When Seconds Count

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WE TRAIN FUTURE PHYSICIAN LEADERS THROUGH OUR RESIDENCY PROGRAM AND FELLOWSHIPS

Why Choose the Fort Worth Emergency Medicine Program?

Fort Worth — the city of cowboys and culture — is home to the John Peter Smith (JPS) Hospital Emergency Medicine Residency Program.

Our residents receive and contribute to the highest quality education available in areas such as Critical Care, Trauma, and ED Administration in both U.S. and global health serving adult and pediatric patient populations. We offer academic, administrative, and ultrasound fellowships.

Our Administrative Fellowship Program is an immersive two-year program that provides hands-on involvement with Emergency Department and Hospital Leadership with concurrent enrollment in a Masters’ program (MBA, MMM, MHA, MPH). Administrative Leadership within Hospitals and, in particular, within Emergency Departments, is a critical area of expertise and requires understanding the complexities that comprise the dynamic. This program is designed to facilitate the Fellow’s education, experience, and understanding of this complex system. By giving you the tools and resources to be actively involved, yet still under the mentorship of Physician Leaders, the learning curve for the development of a successful Physician Leader is greatly reduced.

We are dedicated to graduating the new leaders of medicine – making a difference now and well into the future.

Would you like to speak to a current resident about the program? Contact us today.

ABOUT JPS HOSPITAL
Established in 1906, JPS has devoted more than 100 years to educating physicians while caring for the residents of Tarrant County as the area’s tax-supported hospital district
The ED provides care to over 120,000 patients per year
Approximately 24% of patients evaluated in the ED are admitted to the hospital
Our separate on site Urgent Care Center provides care for another 70,000 low acuity patients per year
Zero ambulance diversion hours since 2008
Resuscitation rooms equipped with digital radiography and articulating arm mounted ultrasound
The ED is fully telemetry equipped
Dual high speed CT scanners in the ED, adjacent to Trauma and Resuscitation Areas
STAT Lab in ED for point of care testing of time sensitive biomarkers

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10 Reasons to Choose the Fort Worth EM Residency Program

1. State-of-the-art Emergency Department and Level 1 trauma center with over 120,000 visits per year

  2. Ethnically, culturally, and economically diverse patient population that provides a broad and complex training experience

  3. Residents receive continuous, accurate feedback on clinical efficiency and patient satisfaction metrics that can be used to gauge educational success and preparedness for post-graduation independent practice

  4. Global health opportunities

  5. Dynamic, protected, weekly conference that is interactive and includes written and oral board prep workshops to ensure certification readiness

  6. Prehospital, mass gathering, and disaster medicine experience with postgraduate fellowship option

  7. Robust emergency ultrasound training during residency in one of the first CUAP accredited departments in the country, with postgraduate fellowship opportunity

  8. Longitudinal program leadership and mentorship enhances both in-training and postgraduate career development and satisfaction

  9. Outstanding EM and critical care experience combined with high yield off-service rotations

  10. Progressive scheduling and unparalleled resident benefits fostering outstanding quality of life in a vibrant metro area with small town charm and affordable cost of living

Testimonials

See what our residents say about the program and life in Fort Worth

“JPS is exactly what I was looking for in terms of an EM training environment – high volume and acuity in an underserved and multicultural county patient population. There is no anesthesia residency here, so no competition for airways. There is no internal medicine residency or critical care fellowship program, so in the ICU we handle the majority of the procedures required. The ultrasound resources and curriculum are top tier. We are the only Level 1 Trauma Center in our city. The faculty is young, energetic, and engaged. They invite us to their homes monthly and often take us out for tacos after shift. My best friends in the city are my co-residents and attendings. The people at JPS make it feel like more of a home than a hospital.”

Jon Wolfshohl

Chief Resident, Class of 2019

“Ever since rotating at JPS as a medical student I was blown away by the program and amazing people here. I have made lifelong friends with my colleagues and JPS family. JPS offers a huge catchman area where you can really make a difference in this county population. It offers a unique training environment where you are able to take complete ownership of your patients both in the ED and off service rotations such as ICU. I can’t imagine having trained anywhere else and feel so lucky to have had this opportunity, which I know has prepared me for all my future clinical, educational, and administrative endeavors!”

Jennalee Cizenski

Chief Resident, Class of 2019

“As a new grad I went to work for a busy level 1 trauma center in east Texas. After my first month out my medical director, who’s been director for the past 15 years, told me “I’ve never hired a new grad that has been able to come in and keep pace with the experienced partners the way you have. I guess all the hype about JPS grads is true.” The word is out, Fort Worth EM is THE place to train in Emergency Medicine.”

Matthew MacKrell

Chief Resident, Class of 2018

“JPS gave me everything I wanted in an emergency medicine program. I got phenomenal training and exposure to an unbelievable amount of acuity and pathology, high quality education and sim training, and made some amazing new friends that I will have for life. Now that I am out working on my own, I get reminded often how great my training at JPS was and how it prepared me to handle anything that comes into the ER. “

Marcus Holmes

Chief Resident, Class of 2018

“At JPS I found a combination of resident camaraderie, faculty leadership and patient pathology I had never seen before. The JPS EM experience is second to none. JPS EM residents log significant numbers of procedures while providing quality care to critically ill patients. And the culture of the JPS EM Program not only places great importance on quality patient care, but we also care about each other and that adds real value to our training as well as making for an exciting challenge every shift.”

Matthew Sullivan

Class of 2017

“I chose JPS because of the patients, the faculty and the atmosphere of the hospital. We are a Level 1 Trauma Center and volume and acuity are consistently high. Our faculty are fun to work with and challenge us to think critically and practice evidence-based medicine from day one. Everyone in the hospital from our techs, nurses, house staff and faculty are all working toward the highest quality patient outcomes. There is no doubt in my mind that I will be prepared for the career of my choosing.”

M. Michelle Bundren

Recruiting Liaison, Class of 2016

One of the many reasons why I chose JPS for residency is because of its location. Fort Worth is a city larger than Detroit, Seattle, and Las Vegas and is located in the 4th largest metropolitan area in the United States. I knew that I would be training at a high volume, high acuity trauma center. With that said, Fort Worth somehow maintains a rustic and family-friendly vibe. With top-rated zoos and museums, a rich cowboy history, and an almost endless number of festivals and concerts within the DFW area, Fort Worth has been a perfect fit for my family. My wife preferred Fort Worth to any other place I interviewed, and we have never regretted our decision to come to JPS. The benefits are some of the best I have seen, including full medical and dental insurance for residents and their dependents.

Trevor Thomas

Chief Resident, Class of 2016

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