Emergency medicine residency · NYC Health + Hospitals/Jacobi · Bronx, New York
Jacobi started training emergency physicians in 1975 — the training site of the first EM residency in New York City. In 2027 the program stands on its own again, with the same faculty, the same trauma bays, and fifty years of excellence behind it.
emergency department visits a year
residents per class
years, PGY-1 through PGY-4
Primary training site of the first EM residency in New York City
Jacobi is a public hospital in the North Bronx and an ACS-designated Level I adult, Level II pediatric trauma center. It is also the regional hyperbaric center and the regional snakebite center for the tri-state area, with a burn service, a designated stroke center, toxicology, and one of only two on-campus helipads in the five boroughs sitting steps from the resuscitation bay.
What that means for a resident is uncomplicated: high volume, high acuity, and undifferentiated illness from the first shift. Residents here care for one of the most medically underserved populations in the city, and they finish knowing how to run a room.
The people teaching the incoming class are the same people who have been training classes for literal decades — “New,” but also “Tried and true.”
Ultrasound, simulation and education, clinical research with an optional one-year MPH, and a longitudinal healthcare administration track.
Transesophageal echo used during active resuscitation to guide compressions and find reversible causes of arrest, run by dedicated ultrasound faculty.
Refrigerators in the trauma bays, so the product is in the room before the patient needs it rather than after.
More than 50,000 studies a year. POCUS is taught as a core skill from PGY-1, not as an elective a resident opts into late.
High-fidelity work at the Institute for Medical Simulation and Advanced Learning, plus in-situ sims run live in the department's own resuscitation bays.
Medical toxicologists on the faculty and in the building. Poisonings, overdoses, and withdrawal are managed with a toxicologist at the bedside rather than at the other end of a phone line.
The regional hyperbaric center — carbon monoxide poisoning, decompression illness, and necrotizing soft tissue infection treated on site.
The regional snakebite treatment center for the tri-state area. Envenomations are referred here from well outside the borough.
A burn service in the hospital, so burn resuscitation is something residents perform and follow rather than package and transfer.
The emergency department is where housing instability, food insecurity, violence, and gaps in access surface first. Screening and referral are built into the visit rather than left to chance.
Early pregnancy evaluation, contraception access, and options counseling handled in the department, with first-trimester ultrasound taught as part of the core scanning curriculum.
Faculty travel to Jamaica each January for a two-day seminar with the JAHJAH Foundation, teaching emergency ultrasound to physicians from public hospitals across the island.
jahjahfoundation.org →Emergency department core, off-service rotations, and the fundamentals of resuscitation.
Increasing autonomy in the main ED, critical care, pediatrics, and procedural volume.
Running resuscitations. Trauma team leadership and department flow.
Teaching, supervising, and administrative and scholarly work before graduation.
* Completed residency at Jacobi.
† Department Chair.
F Fellowship trained.
H Completed the NYC Health + Hospitals Healthcare Administration Scholars Program (HASP).
The divisions post their own teaching material — scans, sim runs, and ongoing projects. It is the least filtered look at the department available.
The first standalone class starts July 2027. Fourteen positions, four years, one department.
Submit your application to the Jacobi emergency medicine program during the standard ResidencyCAS cycle.
Selected applicants are invited to interview with program leadership and faculty during the interview season.
Positions are filled through the NRMP Main Residency Match.