Greetings
Thank you for considering training with the Emergency Medicine Residency program at Northeast Georgia Medical Center (NGMC). This is a very exciting time for our community health system and for our region. Graduate Medical Education and our residencies officially began in 2019, so we are still building and still developing the impact we have on the community. It’s an exciting system to join and an exciting place to do residency because we have tons of untapped potential. I’m looking forward to growing with you and working together to see how we can impact the community around us in a positive way.
I’m honored and excited to be the program director. I come from the Indiana University residency program where I served as the assistant program director for five years. It’s been a career goal of mine for years to start a residency from the ground up and to build a very mission driven residency that focuses on resident autonomy and strong bedside education. Our associate program directors are Dr. Kathryn West and Dr. Anitha Mathew, who come from Carolinas Medical Center and from Emory. We have a passion for education and for innovation. We’re thrilled to watch our vision become a reality.
Our strong conviction is that clinical excellence is the foundation for any career in emergency medicine, including administration, research, education and advocacy. The key to high quality clinical education is to be taught by experienced educators at the bedside with a wide variety of patients. Simply put, our patients are our best teachers.
Our emergency departments at NGMC are busy and efficient. Our main campus is a Level 1 trauma center and we see over 150,000 visits a year including over 25,000 annual pediatric visits. Our acuity is high and we have a very diverse patient population including a diversity of race, ethnicity, language, age, and socioeconomic status. I chose to come to NGMC to build a residency because I am confident that this is an ideal training environment, and graduates from our program will be prepared to work in any emergency department worldwide.
We’re looking for residents who are entrepreneurial, hard-working, visionary, and want to be a part of a new venture and who will help shape the culture of the residency for years to come. Our commitment is to provide you with excellent clinical training, strong institutional support, a foundation for a long and productive career, and a warm and collegial residency family for the next three years.
Finally, Dr. West, Dr. Mathew and I, encourage applicants who are traditionally under-represented in emergency medicine – applicants of color, those who identify as LGBTQ, women, and those from a lower socioeconomic status – to consider NGMC as a home for your residency. We believe that having a diverse group of residents who reflect our patient population will make us a stronger residency and help us to better care for our patients. We are committed to not only supporting our traditionally under-represented residents, but also to strongly advocate for you and your careers as well.
Best of luck, and thank you for considering our program!
Josh Mugele, MD
Program Director