The Emergency Department at Brigham and Women’s Hospital sees an annual patient volume of 57,000 and is a high acuity level 1 Trauma Center and regional burn center. The ED is currently undergoing a renovation and will open a new state of the art clinical space in December 2020 which will ultimately double the physical footprint of the department. The hospital serves as a referral center for multiple subspecialties and serves as the inpatient and emergency facility for the Dana Farber Cancer Institute.
Mass General is the original and largest teaching hospital of Harvard Medical School. The ED at Massachusetts General Hospital sees over 100,000 patients each year and is a Level 1 Trauma Center for both adults and children as well as a regional burn center. Approximately 10% of the ED patients require critical care services contributing to the very high acuity in the department. , where nearly all of our staff physicians serve on the faculty. Mass General trains the next generation of medical and scientific leaders and conducts the largest hospital-based research program in the United States.
Boston Children’s Hospital
Boston Children’s Hospital (BCH) is a 404-bed comprehensive center for pediatric health care. The Emergency Department at BCH cares for over 60,000 children each year. As one of the largest pediatric medical centers in the United States, Boston Children’s offers a complete range of health care services for children from birth through 21 years of age. It functions as a regional pediatric trauma center and referral center for much of New England.
Newton-Wellesley Hospital
Newton-Wellesley Hospital (NWH) is a comprehensive medical center located about twenty minutes outside of Boston. This community hospital is a busy Emergency Department providing the opportunity for residents to rotate outside of the tertiary centers within Boston. The Emergency Department at Newton Wellesley sees approximately 60,000 patients each year, of whom 30% are children.
Harvard Medical School
Residents enjoy the benefits of our affiliation with Harvard Medical School. BWH and MGH are core teaching sites for the Harvard Medical students and residents will have significant opportunity to work with students on shift as well as take part in many of the teaching experiences offered by our faculty to the students. As appointees as Clinical Fellows at Harvard, residents will have access to all of the resources and facilities throughout the Harvard system, including access to the digital libraries.