Welcome to the 海角社区 Emergency Medicine Residency Program in Houston, Texas! We are thrilled to serve as the chief residents for the 2024-2025 academic year and are excited that you have taken the time to learn more about us!
We are a three-year training program located in the heart of the world's largest medical complex - the Texas Medical Center. Houston is the fourth most populous city in the nation and the Greater Houston region is the most ethnically diverse metropolitan area in the US. Our primary training site is Ben Taub General Hospital, a special county hospital where we serve the most vulnerable patient population in Harris County. We also train at other top-tier hospitals including Baylor St. Luke's Medical Center (a high acuity community hospital, cardiac and transplant center, and ranked Houston鈥檚 #1 hospital), Texas Children鈥檚 Hospital (3rd best children鈥檚 hospital in the nation) and the Michael E. DeBakey VA Medical Center (provided care for more than 131,000 veterans). You can鈥檛 ask for a better training lineup!
If you browse our resident and faculty pages, we hope it is obvious that diversity is one of our core values. We pride ourselves on being one of the most diverse residency programs in the country. Our current residents come from varying backgrounds across the globe. Our interests within EM are just as diverse - including administration, health policy, space medicine, education, EMS, critical care, ultrasound, global health, and toxicology (just to name a few). Our faculty serve as incredible mentors to us and also represent varying backgrounds and experiences. You may find our attendings practicing medicine in Africa, South America, South Asia, running EMS systems, leading national organizations including ACEP, working with NASA space medicine, and giving interviews on national news channels.
Our didactics curriculum has been revamped over the last year and we follow an organ based design with multimodal learning including simulation, lectures, case based learning, and small group teaching. Our curriculum also has imbedded wellness and social EM tracts. Resident wellbeing has remained an important focus and we have incorporated monthly wellness events and administrative changes to make residency less stressful.
We pride ourselves on our social footprint and commitment to the Houston community and underserved. From day one, new residents participate in our intern day of service event. We have also forged partnerships with several Houston organizations including Houston Food Bank and The Beacon. Our residents and faculty are actively engaged in our departmental Community Advisory Board to create connections for our department to remain engaged in our community both in and out of the hospital.
Our PD, APDs, and faculty leadership remain supportive of our program goals, and have been flexible (as is the true nature of emergency medicine) as we continue to navigate new and challenging times in the medical field. We stand ready to provide our patients with exceptional care. One of our program鈥檚 biggest strengths is our bond as coresidents. We look out for one another and truly enjoy our time together, on and off shift. We are cut from many different cloths, but we come together in our personal values, our service oriented call to medicine, and our dedication to personal growth in our careers and our relationships.
Emergency Medicine is an incredible specialty, and our residents are prepared for anyone, anytime, in any environment. We would love to tell you more about why BCM EM is (in our opinion) the best residency program in the country, please don鈥檛 hesitate to reach out to. We are a family and can鈥檛 wait to tell you why you should join it!
See you soon,
BCM Emergency Medicine, 2024-2025 Chief Residents
- Ciaura Brown
- Ghida Ghanim
- Lydia Ross
- Sidra Mesiya
PS: Feel free to message us at EMChiefs@bcm.edu - looking forward to hearing from you!
