Emergency Medicine Residency Program

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Program Overview

Welcome to Mercy St. Vincent Medical Center’s Emergency Medicine Residency! We are one of the oldest EM residency programs in the country originating in 1974, and still going strong.

We are an ACGME accredited 3-year program, offering 14 positions each year. Our program director has been with us since 1991 and is dedicated to his residents excelling and becoming the best emergency physicians possible.

Mercy St. Vincent Medical Center is a certified Adult Level 1 and Pediatric Level 2 Trauma Center and the only Burn Center in Toledo.  Our ED volume in 2022 was 55,380 patients.  St. Vincent is also home to Nationwide Children’s Hospital-Toledo, which helps care for our tiniest of patients.  Our residents have the opportunity to see a variety of both common and complex pathology. Senior residents have the option of participating in an aeromedicine curriculum starting in their second year of residency serving as the primary flight physicians for the Life Flight/Mobile Life Critical Care Transportation Network.

Program Aims

  •  Develop the Emergency Resident for the practice of emergency medicine from initial presentation to definitive care.
  • Acquire the basic skills and knowledge that constitute the foundations of emergency medicine practice.
  • Demonstrate ability to apply principles of emergency medicine to the management of clinical problems.  Develop clinical maturity, judgement, and technical skill to allow for practicing emergency medicine independently and develop skills for lifelong learning.
  • Learn to monitor their own well-being.
  • Practice emergency medicine as a patient advocate.

Program History

Our program started in 1974, since then, we have graduated close to 500 residents who work in 26 states and countries around the world. The program obtained original accreditation from the ACGME in 1977.  The LifeFlight Program began in 1979, when Dr. Frank Foss had a vision of bringing the care and physician to the patient.  Life Flight has grown exponentially since then, to include 5 helicopters and four bases.

Program Accreditation

ACGME:  Original Accredidation Date 7/1/1991; Continued Full Accreditation effective 1/12/2023

Contact Us

Rachel Hill
EM Program Coordinator
Rachel_Hill@mercy.com
419-251-4724

Valancy “Val” Gongora
Valancy_Gongora@mercy.com
EMS Program Coordinator
419-251-4723

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