The Emergency Medicine Residency Program of the Albert Einstein College of Medicine was established in 1975 at Jacobi Medical Center. It was the first residency in Emergency Medicine in New York City and is one of the oldest programs in the country. The addition in 1996 of Montefiore Medical Center as a second training site established an ideal educational environment by coupling Jacobi's strength as a community-based, municipal hospital and trauma center with the tremendous resources of a tertiary care, university hospital.  Emergency Medicine has full academic departmental status within the Albert Einstein College of Medicine.

The new PGY 1-4 training format that will take effect in July 2006 will allow residents to be fully integrated into the program in the first post-graduate year of training and be introduced at the introductory level to Emergency Medicine.  Approximately two-thirds of training occurs at Jacobi and one-third at Montefiore.

The program faculty and residents are committed to the belief that an outstanding training program should be both rigorous and enjoyable. Residents graduate from our program with the tools they will need to be not only compassionate and knowledgeable physicians, but leaders in the field of Emergency Medicine.