Emergency Medicine Fellowship
Tamarack Health Ashland Medical Center

Tamarack Health Ashland Medical Center offers an emergency medicine fellowship program for family physicians who desire further training in rural/suburban emergency medicine. Fellowship graduates will have the ability to become board-certified in emergency medicine by the American Board of Physician Specialties (ABPS), the organization that provides accreditation for the program. This fellowship training allows a family physician to sit for the ABPS Board Certification in Emergency Medicine (BCEM). Fellows who complete the fellowship are strongly encouraged to take the board exam.

Check out our Program VIDEO.

Program objectives:

  • Understand the full breadth and depth of the practice of emergency medicine.

  • Demonstrate the ability to lead and coordinate care with multiple nursing and technician staff members.

  • Effectively coordinate care with primary care providers and specialist physicians.

  • Provide evidence-based and cost-effective emergency care.

  • Develop a sensitivity for subtle presentations of critical illnesses.

  • Develop time-efficient and appropriate history, exam, and differential diagnosis skills in the emergency department setting.

  • Provide effective diagnostic and treatment plans for all patients who present to the emergency department.

  • Communicate with patients and family in a sensitive and compassionate manner.

  • Coordinate effective and appropriate pre-hospital and inter-facility transport care.

Program details:

  • Emergency medicine and critical care-focused curriculum.

    • Rotations through anesthesia, ENT, behavioral health, ophthalmology.

  • One-year fellowships start each August.

  • Expect 15 to 16 shifts monthly.

  • Extensive ultrasound training.

  • Lead a quality improvement project.

  • Involvement with hospital committees.

  • Tamarack Health focuses on the traditional model of care, working with primary care providers who believe in a full-scope model of practice.

  • The Tamarack Health Ashland Medical Center emergency department had 18,500 ER/Urgent care visits in 2022.

Qualifications

  • Applicants must be at least a third-year resident in good standing or a recent graduate of an AOA/ACGME primary care residency (two to three years post-residency).

  • Licensed in Wisconsin or eligible for licensure.

  • Must be a U.S. citizen or permanent resident.

    • Tamarack Health does not sponsor J1 visas at this time.