MAIMONIDES MEDICAL CENTER

Emergency Medicine Residency Program Overview

The Emergency Medicine Residency Program at Maimonides received full accreditation in 2005 and the first class of emergency medicine residents graduated in 2005. Our residents have been highly sought after and have gone on to fellowship training, academic and community practice. The program is a three-year training program (post-graduate year 1,2,3) which accepts 18 residents each year for a total of 54 residents.

Training at Maimonides Medical Center’s provides one of the most unique and rewarding training environments in the country. Surrounded by the 2.6 million residents of Brooklyn, New York, Maimonides serves an incredibly varied patient population. Our patients speak many different languages and represent many different cultures. Given the diversity of our patients and because Maimonides has a long history of exemplary tertiary care, Maimonides residents have the benefit caring for many of the sickest patients in Brooklyn and experience a broad range of pathology not available at other training centers.

The Maimonides system has three emergency departments that residents work at - Maimonides Medical Center, Maimonides Midwood Community Hospital, and Maimonides Bay Ridge Emergency Department.

• Maimonides Medical Center is located in Borough Park, Brooklyn. MMC is a STEMI center, comprehensive stroke center, adult level 1 and pediatric level 2 trauma center. This 711 bed academic medical center houses 24 residency and fellowship programs and is where EM residents spend the majority of their time including over 90% of ER shifts and all off-service rotations.

• Maimonides Midwood Community Hospital is a smaller 134 bed hospital located in Midwood, Brooklyn where third year residents spend 3 weeks working to get valuable exposure to community EM.

• Maimonides Bay Ridge Emergency Department is the new addition to the Maimonides system and is a stand-alone ER located in Bay Ridge, Brooklyn where third year residents have the option to pick up shifts.

The Maimonides Medical Center emergency department is where residents spend the bulk of their time during training. The ER was originally constructed in 1997, then underwent an expansion in 2007, and in 2023 an additional renovation and expansion project began which is estimated increase the existing emergency department size by 150%.

The department is divided into four patient care areas: adult critical care (“ER North”), adult acute care (“ER South”), adult split flow/fast track, and pediatrics. The adult treatments areas have capacity for over 100 patients, including four designated resuscitation bays and a designated psychiatric area. The pediatric area consists of fourteen treatment areas including two dedicated pediatric resuscitation bays. Our new 20,000 square foot pediatric emergency department is under construction and will serve as the first and only dedicated pediatric emergency department in Brooklyn.

The department has all the advanced equipment needed to care for any patient including numerous ultrasound machines, glidescopes and fiber-optic laryngoscopes, a slit lamp and state of the art retinal camera, 2 CT scanners and a dedicated radiology suite with two rooms for plain radiographs.