Our Tracks
Professional Development Tracks
Explore Your Passion. Build Your Expertise.
One of the most valuable features of our four-year emergency medicine residency program is the opportunity to pursue a Professional Development Track—a focused area of study designed to deepen your expertise and accelerate your career. These tracks allow residents to:
- Develop specialized skills in a chosen area of emergency medicine
- Gain mentorship and hands-on experience from senior residents, as well as, faculty with subspecialty expertise.
- Align clinical training with long-term career goals
- Make residents applying to fellowships more competitive applicants through unique subspecialty clinical experiences, completion of fellowship prerequisites, acquisition of letters of recommendation, critical appraisal of subspecialty evidence-based medicine, and experiences in subspeciality scholarly activity.
How It Works
Year 1: Begin exploring track options and connect with upper-level residents and faculty to learn more.
Year 2, 3 or 4: Officially start your chosen track and dive into a structured curriculum tailored to your interests.
Year 4: Continue building expertise and prepare to launch a career with a strong foundation in your specialty.
What to Expect
Depending on the track, you may be invited to:
- Shadow senior residents
- Attend specialized workshops or conferences
- Participate in focused research or quality improvement projects
- Develop the skills and knowledge required to enter an ultrasound fellowship, and become an ultrasound director
- Contribute to the field of ultrasound through research, scholarly production, education, and policy development.
- Understand the skills required for ultrasound quality analysis review.
- Demonstrate the ability to pursue personal interests in ultrasound.
- Develop the skills and acquire knowledge utilized to be a successful EMS medical director
- Early exposure to the knowledge and skills to begin an EMS fellowship
- Contribute to the field of EMS through research, scholarly production, education, and policy development.
- Demonstrate the ability to pursue personal interests in EMS, including disaster medicine, hazardous materials, wilderness and tactical medicine.
- Provide residents with additional, well-rounded, longitudinal, focused education on caring for critically ill patients
- Increase the exposure of residents to high acuity, low opportunity critical care procedures
- Increase the exposure of residents to critical care as a specialty career option
- Make residents applying to critical care fellowships more competitive applicants through clinical critical care experience, completion of prerequisites, acquisition of letters of recommendation, mentorship, appraisal of critical care journal articles, and experiences in critical care research and didactics.
- Provide MELT residents with additional, well-rounded, longitudinal, focused education and training into medical education and hospital leadership.
- Develop residents into better educators through improving teaching skills, curriculum development, and mentoring
- Increase the exposure of residents to medical education and hospital leadership
- Make residents applying to medical education fellowships more competitive applicants through on shift medical education experience, completion of fellowship prerequisites, letters of recommendation, mentorship, critical appraisal of Medical education evidence-based medicine, and experiences in medical research and didactics.
- Opportunity to more intently serve the underserved in our local, national, and global communities.
- Rotations are available in numerous countries and our own.
- Intimate relationship with MSU's Institute of Global Health
- Capstone project required with intent of addressing healthcare discrepancies in a sustainable manner.