Greetings from the emergency family here at Broward Health. It has been a busy year over here in sunny South Florida. 2021 was the first year of our program, and we sure have hit the ground running. Everyone in the intern class excelled not only in the emergency department, but several months in the ICU, trauma, labor/delivery, and even got a chance to ride along with our heroes in the fire department. Our year of rotations enabled us to become comfortable with critical procedures and the vast array of pathologies that we see in the emergency department.

Although we’ve put in a lot of time learning and working, we still have found time to have a little bit of fun as a family as well. Several of our faculty members work on the medical staff of the South Florida professional athletic teams, so our program has been able to enjoy Panthers hockey games, Dolphins football games, and Marlins baseball games all in the same year.

Even though we have had plenty of fun as an emergency family, we were not strangers to war either. We closed out our year with paintball and SIM wars! Our end-of-the-year wellness activity consisted of an extreme paintball war that left us with more laughs than bruises. Our residents also had a chance to showcase everything we’ve learned this year in the Simulation Wars held in Miami, FL. With all that said, there is no doubt that our new intern class will make this year bigger and better.

Special welcome to the class of 2025. ■