Texas Tech University (Lubbock)

History

With the purpose of improving emergency medicine care in West Texas, we accepted our first class of residents in 2020. We took advantage of being at a large tertiary care teaching hospital and Level 1 trauma center that previously did not have any emergency medicine training. We have the opportunity to work with medical students from Texas Tech as well as with residents of nearly every other service. Given our geographic location, we serve an extremely large catchment area which helps provide an abundance of volume and pathology. As our program has grown and flourished, we are now in the process of expanding our class from 8 residents per year to 9 each year.

Leadership

Department Chair: Dr. Chris Piel
Program Director: Dr. Trey Morris
Assistant Program Director: Dr. Justin Homes
Clerkship Director: Dr. James Ko
Research Director: Dr. Stephanie Stroever

Training Locations

University Medical Center (Lubbock, TX)
- County hospital as well as large academic center affiliated with Texas Tech University Health Science Center
- Tertiary care center for West Texas and Eastern New Mexico
- Region's only Level 1 trauma center
- Region's only burn center
- 500 beds
UMC Children's Hospital

Curriculum

Longitudinal pediatric emergency medicine and trauma throughout all three years of training

PGY1

Emergency Medicine - 7 blocks
Medical ICU - 1 block
Orthopedics - 1 block
Inpatient Medicine - 1 block
OB/GYN - 1 block
Cardiac ICU/Heart Station - 1 block
Anesthesia/Ultrasound - 1 block

PGY2

Emergency Medicine - 9 blocks
Surgical ICU - 1 block
Pediatric ICU - 1 block
Difficult Airway/Research/Toxicology - 1 block
Administrative - 1 block

PGY3

Emergency Medicine - 9 blocks
Neuro ICU - 1 block
EMS/Interventional Radiology - 1 block
Administrative - 1 block
Elective - 1 block

Electives

Contact Information

Kali Newman, Program Coordinator: kali.newman@ttuhsc.edu