Below is our Curriculum for your three years at St. Luke’s. There is ample time in the Emergency Departments as well as time to complete all your ACGME requirements including all your procedures. Most residents have all of the ACGME required procedures completed by the end of second year.
During your Emergency Department months you work a varied number of shifts based on PGY year. PGY-1’s do 18 shifts, PGY-2’s do 17 shifts, and PGY-3’s do 16 shifts. All shifts are 10 hours long with the exception of Thursday, our Conference Day, where shifts are shorter.
We are fortunate enough to have our own Pediatric Emergency Department. During your shifts you will not only see adult patients but pediatric patients. We do not have dedicated pediatric months because every shift you see infants, toddlers, teenagers, adults and the elderly.
Our pediatric ED is situated in an area away from adults and is staffed with a pediatric attending. We manage all acuity of patients here. As a pediatric hospital we also have access to a spectrum of pediatric specialists from the most complex of patients.
Block Schedule
Emergency Medicine (Bethlehem Campus) – 7 Blocks
Emergency Medicine (Allentown Campus) – 1 Block
Medical Critical Care – 1 Block
Surgical Critical Care – 1 Block
Obstetrics – 1 Block
Elective – 1 Block
Toxicology/EMS – 1/2 Block
Anesthesia – 1/2 Block
Emergency Medicine (Bethlehem Campus) – 6.5 Blocks
Emergency Medicine (Allentown Campus) – 1 Block
Medical Critical Care – 1 Block
Surgical Critical Care – 1 Block
Trauma – 1 Block
Elective – 1 Block
Pediatric Critical Care – 1 Block
EMS – 1/2 Block
Emergency Medicine (Bethlehem Campus) – 8 Blocks
Emergency Medicine (Allentown/Carbon Campus) – 2 Blocks
Critical Care Selective – 1 Block
Trauma – 1 Block
Elective – 1 Block
We offer a variety of Electives for our Residents. In addition to those listed, Residents are welcome to complete Away Electives as well as International electives. They just require a little more planning so that they can be approved. Here are just some of the electives we have readily available.
- Administration
- Dental
- ED Elective
- EMS
- ENT
- Family Medicine
- Infectious Disease
- International Medicine
- Kids Care
- Medical Critical Care
- NICU
- Ophthalmology
- Plastics
- PICU
- Radiology
- Research
- Rural EM (Carbon Campus EM)
- Sports Medicine
- Surgical Critical Care
- Teaching
- Trauma
- Toxicology
- Ultrasound