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emergency medicine residency/fellowship programs

What emergency medicine residency/fellowship programs Majors Need to Know

Coursework for emergency medicine residency/fellowship programs emphasize a specific mix of knowledge, skills, and abilities — derived from O*NET surveys of workers in occupations that emergency medicine residency/fellowship programs graduates commonly enter.

Knowledge Areas

According to O*NET, a major in emergency medicine residency/fellowship programs emphasizes the following knowledge areas:

• English Language — Importance 4.7 / 5; level 5.3 / 7.
• Medicine and Dentistry — Importance 4.7 / 5; level 5.7 / 7.
• Biology — Importance 4.4 / 5; level 5.2 / 7.
• Psychology — Importance 4.1 / 5; level 5.6 / 7.
• Education and Training — Importance 4.0 / 5; level 5.2 / 7.

^{Importance is rated 1–5; level is 1–7. Source: ONET Online — weighted across related occupations.*}

Skills

Skills built by a emergency medicine residency/fellowship programs program reflects the day-to-day work of related occupations:

• Critical Thinking — Importance 4.2 / 5; level 4.5 / 7.
• Active Listening — Importance 4.2 / 5; level 4.6 / 7.
• Speaking — Importance 4.2 / 5; level 4.5 / 7.
• Reading Comprehension — Importance 4.2 / 5; level 5.1 / 7.
• Writing — Importance 4.1 / 5; level 4.4 / 7.

Abilities

The cognitive and physical abilities most relevant to emergency medicine residency/fellowship programs careers — again drawn from O*NET surveys of related occupations:

• Oral Expression — Importance 4.6 / 5; level 5.1 / 7.
• Written Comprehension — Importance 4.4 / 5; level 5.1 / 7.
• Oral Comprehension — Importance 4.4 / 5; level 5.1 / 7.
• Written Expression — Importance 4.3 / 5; level 4.7 / 7.
• Deductive Reasoning — Importance 4.2 / 5; level 4.5 / 7.

Common Job Activities

Day-to-day, emergency medicine residency/fellowship programs graduates report doing:

Activity	Frequency / Importance
Getting Information	4.7 / 7
Updating and Using Relevant Knowledge	4.7 / 7
Making Decisions and Solving Problems	4.6 / 7
Interpreting the Meaning of Information for Others	4.5 / 7
Documenting/Recording Information	4.4 / 7
Establishing and Maintaining Interpersonal Relationships	4.4 / 7
Working with Computers	4.4 / 7
Analyzing Data or Information	4.3 / 7
Assisting and Caring for Others	4.3 / 7
Communicating with Supervisors, Peers, or Subordinates	4.3 / 7

Technology Skills Used on the Job

Most frequently-cited tools used by emergency medicine residency/fellowship programs professionals:

Tool / Software	Category	In-Demand
MEDITECH software	Medical software	—
Epic Systems	Medical software	✓
Microsoft Office software	Office suite software	✓
Microsoft Word	Word processing software	—
Microsoft Excel	Spreadsheet software	✓
Microsoft PowerPoint	Presentation software	✓
Geographic information system GIS software	Geographic information system	—
Microsoft Outlook	Electronic mail software	✓
Web browser software	Internet browser software	—
SAS	Analytical or scientific software	—
IBM SPSS Statistics	Analytical or scientific software	—
InteractElsevier Netter’s 3D Interactive Anatomy	Medical software	—

^{Source: ONET Online technology skills, weighted across related occupations.*}

Sample Job Titles

Real job postings for emergency medicine residency/fellowship programs graduates include:

• Urgent Care Physician
• Attending Physician
• MD (Medical Doctor)
• Attending Emergency Physician
• Trauma Doctor
• Emergency Medicine Specialist
• Emergency Department Physician (ED Physician)
• Intensivist
• Emergency Medicine Physician (EM Physician)
• Pediatric Emergency Medicine Physician
• Physician
• Emergency Department Doctor (ED Doctor)
• Emergency MD (Emergency Medicine Doctor)
• Critical Care Intensivist Physician
• Pulmonary Critical Care Physician

Education Typically Required

Across the occupations open to emergency medicine residency/fellowship programs graduates, the typical level of education actually held by current workers is distributed as:

Education Level	Share of Workers
Post-doctoral training	45.8%
Doctoral degree	30.6%
Master’s degree	12.6%
Bachelor’s degree	5.6%
First professional degree	2.2%
Associate’s degree (or other 2-year)	1.6%
Postsecondary certificate	0.9%
Some college courses	0.2%
Post-baccalaureate certificate	0.2%
Post-master’s certificate	0.2%
High school diploma or equivalent	0.1%

^{Source: ONET Online education / training / experience requirements.*}

Related Programs

You may also be interested in these closely related fields of study:

Program	CIP Code
Medical Residency Programs	61
Allergy and Immunology Residency/Fellowship Programs	61.03
Anesthesiology Residency/Fellowship Programs	61.04
Combined Medical Residency/Fellowship Programs	61.01
Dermatology Residency/Fellowship Programs	61.05
Family Medicine Residency/Fellowship Programs	61.07
Internal Medicine Residency/Fellowship Programs	61.08
Medical Genetics and Genomics Residency/Fellowship Programs	61.09
Medical Residency/Fellowship Programs, Other	61.99
MEDICAL RESIDENCY/FELLOWSHIP PROGRAMS	61.00
Multiple-Pathway Medical Fellowship Programs	61.02
Neurological Surgery Residency/Fellowship Programs	61.10

References

The racial-ethnic minorities count is calculated by taking the total number of students and subtracting white students and international students. This number is then divided by the total number of students to obtain the racial-ethnic minorities percentage.

• College Factual
• National Center for Education Statistics (IPEDS)
• O*NET Online
• U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics
• U.S. Department of Education College Scorecard

More about our data sources and methodologies.