Harvard Affiliated Emergency Medicine Residency

Application Season 2024-2025

In accordance with the guidelines of our national organizations, we will be offering only virtual interviews during the application season. Additionally, we will likely host two in-person second looks during this application cycle (dates TBD).

We anticipate releasing our first round of interview offers on or about October 16, 2024. Applicants will be provided with an update of their status no later than December 16, 2024.

Our leadership team is committed to a holistic review of all applications. We believe that each person’s situation is unique and a complete review of the application is essential in order to grow our diversity. This process ensures evaluation of each person as a whole individual, not just individual parts defined by predetermined metrics. Our review will focus on aspects of your application that align with our missions of service, scholarship, diversity, clinical excellence. The AAMC provides information on what is means to perform a holistic review.

AAMC ID Number
13440663

NRMP Program Code
2395110C0

Visa Sponsorship
HAEMR sponsors both J-1 and H1-B visas.

USMLE and COMLEX Requirements
Effective January 2, 2014, physicians applying for an initial limited license in MA which is required for training will be required to pass USMLE Step I and Step II, CK and CS, or the first two levels of COMLEX or complete all parts of MCCQE. We evaluate scores from all applicants and do not have minimum score requirements. 

Letters of Recommendation
We prefer three letters of recommendation, two of which should be from emergency medicine. We prefer applicants to have emergency medicine letters in the SLOE format, though recognize some situations will prevent this and will evaluate on an individual basis. All letters are received through ERAS and only consider those received through ERAS as part of the official application. 

Resources

As an applicant, it is important to know the resources available to you as a trainee. Mass General Brigham is committed to providing many resources to our trainees to ease the transition to residency and life in Boston. The GME office has many resources available on their website. 

Mass General Brigham offers a Lease Guarantee program for residents training in our program. The hospitals have made arrangements with a number of landlords throughout Boston and the surrounding communities to provide a guarantee for your lease saving you the advanced payment often required by landlords. 

Mass General Brigham also offers an additional stipend to residents matching to our hospitals in 2021 who come from economically disadvantaged backgrounds. For students who meet the criteria outlined on the website, the hospital will provide an additional $10,000 stipend each year for the first three years of training. The goal of this program is to provide assistance to trainees with the cost of living in Boston during residency. Trainees apply to this program directly through the GME office and program directors are not informed of which trainees qualify and receive this assistance. 

Benefits

Residents will be employees of Mass General Brighams (formerly Partners) as part of HAEMR. Salary information for current trainees is here. 

Information about other available benefits (healthcare, vision, MBTA, retirement) for trainees is available here.

At HAEMR, we are fully supportive of residents with families and those who plan to have families during training. Mass General Brigham supports up to 12 weeks of paid parental leave for trainees. The American Board of Emergency Medicine beginning in 2021 will allow up to 8 weeks per year of training that can be missed without extending training (inclusive of vacation). We work with the block schedule of a resident in order to keep trainees on target for graduation if desired. Child care services are available through Mass General Brigham with lactation facilities on both campuses, including two new lactation rooms in the new BWH ED. Information about parental leave and child care can be found here.