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PROGRAM INFORMATION
Sparrow Hospital/Michigan State University Program [1102512027]
Sparrow Hospital/Michigan State University Program
P.O. Box 30480
Lansing, Michigan 48909-2393

http://sparrow.org

Sponsoring Institution: Sparrow Hospital
Specialty: Emergency Medicine
Active?: Yes
 
DIRECTOR INFORMATION COORDINATOR INFORMATION
Theodore Glynn, MD
Residency Director Emergency Medicine Program
Osteopathic Program Director:
Mary J. Hughes, DO, FACEP, FACOEP
Associate/Assistant Residency Director:
David Castle, DO, FACEP
ED Chairman: Sparrow Hosp.
Mont Roberts, MD, FACEP
ED Chairman: Ingham Regional Medical Center 
John Fata, MD, FACEP
Chief Resident 1: Pete Tanner, MD
Chief Resident 2: Julie Beard, DO
Chief Resident 3: Brent Felton, DO

Phone: (517) 364-2583
Fax: (517) 364-2763
Renee Day
Senior Program Coordinator - Sparrow Hospital

Phone: (517) 364-2583
Fax (517) 364-3002
Email: Renee.Day@SPARROW.ORG

Karen Jury - Ingham Regional Medical Center
Residency Coordinator II

Phone: (517) 334-2563
Fax (517) 372-6757
Email: karen.jury@irmc.org
 
ACCREDITATION AND GENERAL INFORMATION
Original Accreditation Date: July 1, 1982
Accreditation Status: Continued Full Accreditation
Accreditation Effective Date: February 15, 2002
Accredited Program Length: 3 years

Program Format: Standard 

Last Site Review Date: September 6, 2001
Next Site Review Date (approximate): February 1, 2005

Program Requires Prior or Additional GME Training: NO
Program Requires Dedicated Research Year: NO
Program Participates in National Resident Matching Program: YES

Number of MD/DO Teaching Staff Whose Primary Responsibility is Resident Education: 24 
Governement Affiliation: No Military or Government Affiliation 
 
ACGME APPROVED/OFFERED POSITIONS ACGME FILLED POSITIONS (CATEGORICAL AND PRELIMINARY POSITIONS ONLY)
Year 1 Positions: 10
    Year 1 Categorical: 10
    Year 1 Preliminary Designated:
    Year 1 Preliminary Non-Designated:
    Year 1 Combined:
Year 2 Positions: 10
    Year 2 Categorical: 10
    Year 2 Preliminary Designated:
    Year 2 Preliminary Non-Designated:
    Year 2 Combined:
Year 3 Positions: 10
    Year 3 Categorical: 10
    Year 3 Preliminary Designated:
    Year 3 Preliminary Non-Designated:
    Year 3 Combined:

Total Number of Approved/Offered Resident Positions: 30
Year 1 Filled Positions: 10
Year 2 Filled Positions: 10
Year 3 Filled Positions: 10

Total Number of Filled Positions (Residents on duty in categorical/preliminary positions as of Aug 31st of the current academic year): 30
 
MEDICAL SCHOOL AFFILIATIONS
Michigan State Univ Coll of Human Med, East Lansing, MI
Michigan State Univ Coll Osteo Med, E Lansing, MI
 
PARTICIPATING INSTITUTIONS AND ROTATIONS
Sparrow Hospital - Sponsor
  Year 1 Months of Rotation: 1
  Year 2 Months of Rotation: 6
  Year 3 Months of Rotation: 5

Ingham Regional Medical Center - Major Participating Institution
  Year 1 Months of Rotation: 1
  Year 2 Months of Rotation: 3
  Year 3 Months of Rotation: 4

Hospital: Sparrow Hospital
Type: Community - Academic
Beds: 587
Number of ED Beds: 51 adult/ 14 peds
Number of Adult Visits: >70,000
Numer of Peds Visits: >23,000
% Admitted: 26%
ICU Admissions (% of total admissions) 64%
Number of Months Training at Facility (ED/Total): 12/22

Hospital: Ingham Regional Medical Center
Type: Community - Academic
Beds: 483
Number of ED Beds: 32
Number of Adult Visits: >50,000
Numer of Peds Visits: >8,000
% Admitted: 25%
ICU Admissions (% of total admissions) 32%
Number of Months Training at Facility (ED/Total): 10/22


Research Director(s): Ted Glynn, MD,FACEP, Mary Hughes, DO,FACEP,FACOEP
Resident Requirement? Yes.

Program approach to funding resident research: Monthly, residents may bring research ideas to meetings with Michigan State University Faculty and Student Research Associates for assistance with implementing projects. Resources for assistance with funding and grant applications are also available. Once a project is complete, residents are fully funded and given clinical time off to attend conferences at which they have a paper or poster accepted. Conference expenses are reimbursed separately from CME monies.

Current research activities: 16 research projects in process, 31 publications, 4 manuscripts submitted for publication over the past 3 years.

Year program began 1973
Accreditation status: full RRC and AOA
Residency program format 1 2 3 (MD) and 1 2 3 4 (DO)
Combined residencies: no (except dual-accreditation)
Number of residents per class 9-11
Current Osteopathic Residents (DO)? 17
Current Allopathic Residents (MD)? 15
Average DO# in past five years? 1/3 to 1/2 total
International Medical Graduates? No visas sponsored, 1-3 Carribean IMG
Previous residency training? 1-3

Which degrees or certifications are offered?
BLS, APLS, ACLS, ATLS, Ultrasound certifications

Hours per week for conference etc: 4 or more hours
Conferences schedule: every Thursday, some Wednesdays, occasional other
Conference Time protected during EM: Yes
Conference Time protected off-service: All except adult ICU's (separate didactic schedule). Most off-service rotations have additional protected department-specific didactics for residents during rotation duty hours.
Skill sessions: Ultrasound (quarterly), Animal labs (biannual), SimMan (annual), Suturing, Airway, Slit lamp, Megacode

Residents required to prepare: M&M, Case Conference, Senior Grand Rounds, EMS Conference, Journal Club, OMM* (*DO only)
Optional resident teaching: All residents receive associate clinical faculty status from Michigan State University for assistance with teaching medical students in MSU's OPTI. Additionally, residents may assist teaching MSU-COM's Clinical Skills Lab for MS-1's, MSU college-sponsored BLS/ACLS, and Lansing Fire Department BLS/ACLS.

Core Conferences taught by
EM faculty, residents, SCS lecturers, other guest lecturers.
Recurring Conference Topics:
Core Content, Tintinalli Review, Trauma, Journal Club, M&M, mock oral boards.
Business/Admin Didactics: Yes
Other curriculum features: Critical Care 3+ months CCU/ICU/NICU, 1+ month PICU/Peds-ED/Peds, 1 month Pulmonary, 1 month Cardiology, 1 month OBGyn, and 1 month Trauma are required. Orthopedics, Plastic/Hand Surgery, ENT, Anesthesia, and other options are selectives.
Fellowships: N/A
AEROMEDICAL: ride-alongs or away rotations can be arranged
EMERGENCY MEDICAL SYSTEMS: First year residents spend approximately 4 hours/EM-month on field calls with EMS ambulances. EM residents are required to lecture to EMT’s and paramedics and learn radio communication. All residents will be certified as a provider in the pre-hospital care medicine and base station protocol course. Additional experiences include attending multiple joint EM/EMS conferences and arranging an optional 2 week block of EMS administration and field work. The Lansing Fire Deparment's EMS personnel host an extrication lab for our residents yearly, and the MSU Statewide campus has Hazmat and Ballistics courses available.
PEDIATRICS: There are numerous EM faculty that are board-certified in Pediatric EM. Sparrow has a dedicated pediatric ED, which residents staff during their peds EM months and during night shifts. The pediatric population is integrated into the main ED at IRMC. Residents are required to work 1 or more months in Sparrow's PICU. Osteopathic residents may spend 1 month on general peds floor as an intern.
TOXICOLOGY: 1 week with fellowship-trained EM faculty on site or away rotation at Poison Control Center as elective
ULTRASOUND: integrated via core curriculum. Dedicated elective available.
SPORTS MEDICINE: available as on-site elective
WILDERNESS MEDICINE: may arrange as away rotation

Resident Benefits
Membership:
ACEP, EMRA, SAEM, MCEP, EMRAM
Additional memberships:
AOA, MOA, SCS (DO)
Subscription:
Annals of Emergency Medicine, Academic Emergency Medicine, Emergency Medicine News, EM-RAPs, Emergency Physicians Monthly, ACEP news, EM Resident, EB Medicine, Critical Decisions, CME download, MSU electronic journal library
Additional subscriptions:
JAOA, The DO, MOA Update (DO)
Other benefits:
CME Monies ($600/EM-1 Residents and $1000/EM2+ Residents); 3 weeks vacation/yr; 1 week conference elective option; PDA given to each resident; Free meals and parking at both hospitals; Family health/dental/vision insurance; Life/disability insurance; Relocation Moving Loan; Three new lab coats or embroidered scrubs each year


EM Rotations
Hours per day (intern): 8-9 hours
Shifts per month (intern): 18
Hours per day (senior resident): most 8-9 h, some weekend/holiday 12 h
Average shifts per month (senior residents): 18
How long after their shifts do residents typically end up staying?
less than an hour
On average, how busy are senior residents?
1.75 pt/h (most range 1.5 - 2.5)


Ancillary work: Administrative duties include maintaining personal resident logbooks (patient/procedure/ultrasound/etc). There are dedicated transporters/techs/RN for routine patient care tasks.
Running trauma: EM/Surgery (Sparrow) and EM alone (IRMC)
Trauma airway: EM Resident
Trauma Roles overall: Code Leader, Airway Management, other procedures performer (including Lines, FAST, etc)
Technologies used in ED: both paper and electronic T-system charting/lab/dc/Rx, EMR of past visits/testing, digital radiographs, bedside ultrasound, in-department XR/CT, low-risk stress test lab, emergent MRI by radiology approval


Off-Service Rotations
Kinds of call schedules: 4-7 calls/month.
Months of call: ICU months (3+ months), IM floor (1-2 months), cardiology (1 month), pulmonology (1 month), trauma (night-float week in 1 month), general peds (DO residents), general surgery (DO residents)

Moonlighting Allowed?
Yes
Possible moonlighting experiences available
Pediatric ED (Sparrow), Fast-track ED (Sparrow/IRMC), Cardiology/Pulmonology "intern" night/weekend gap call (IRMC), urgent care or nearby ED shifts available to senior residents