Twitter:
@VCUEM

Location:
Richmond, Virginia

Year founded:
1999

Number of residents/program length:
37 emergency medicine, three-year program; 10 internal medicine–emergency medicine, five-year program

Secret weapons (medical)

Safety-net hospital with high-acuity patients and leading clinical discovery. Busy level 1 adult and pediatric center with almost 4,000 trauma resuscitations a year. The only burn center in Virginia. Focused training in toxicology, emergency medical services, the clinical decision unit, and pediatric emergency medicine.

Secret weapons (nonmedical)

Awesome annual retreat at Pocahontas State Park, where our residents spend several days off-site engaging in educational and professional activities, including a hands-on theme education (eg, sports medicine, disaster, wilderness medicine) run by faculty. The 2019 theme was MedWAR (Medical Wilderness Adventure Race), and our team came in third at EMRA’s annual MedWAR competition at ACEP19.

—Joel Moll, MD, residency program director

Trivia

Richmond has been named one of the “Most Fun Cities in America” (Business Insider, September 2017), one of “19 US Cities with an Unexpectedly International Food Scene” (Fodor’s, January 2018), and number one in “The World‘s Top 10 Beer Destinations for 2018” (VinePair, January 2018).