Our program is excited to announce that we have officially graduated our inaugural class! Three of our graduates went on to begin fellowships: two in ultrasound fellowships and one in a sports medicine fellowship. Five of our nine graduates remained at Sarasota Memorial Hospital, and we are so lucky to have them working as attendings now. They have been an amazing asset to our department and continue to teach our residents every day. Our intern class has been extremely active – one of our interns has already completed over 300 ultrasounds!

Two of our attendings, Drs. Ashley Grant and David Krahm, are now certified in utilizing trans-esophageal echocardiography during resuscitation in our emergency department. We have a TEE probe in our department, and we have already started training our residents on TEE probe use. Ideally, this can be used during CPR to limit pauses in compressions and evaluate cardiac movement continuously. Our residents are very excited about this rare opportunity!

We have been fortunate to attend both FCEP and SEA so far this year. We had a member of each residency class participate in FCEP and SEA. Our entire team is gearing up for this upcoming year too. Our administrative chief, Dr. Emily Wheeler, PGY-3, matched in a critical care fellowship and plans to head to Pennsylvania in the spring. Our academic chief, Dr. Amy Lowther, PGY-3, is currently in the middle of match season for pediatric-EM fellowship, as well.

Cheers from our program to yours! We are eager to see what all the incredible emergency medicine residents accomplish this year. ■