Family Medicine Training
Ambulatory medicine is the cornerstone of family medicine portion of EM/FM training. Family Medicine Center is our outpatient practice and is the center of the resident education experience.
The Family Medicine Center is one practice with two office locations, each offering its own unique training experience.
Suburban location: Family Medicine Center at Foulk Road
The space is equipped with 18 exam rooms, two procedure rooms, a resident room, faculty offices, administrative space and a conference room.
Urban location: Family Medicine Center at the Wilmington Annex
At Wilmington Hospital, this recently renovated location has six exam rooms and an administrative suite.
Emergency Medicine Training
Large academic, suburban hospital: Christiana Hospital
A 913-bed, 1.3-million-square-foot, modern facility in Newark, Delaware, Christiana Hospital provides a level of care only available in large-scale teaching hospitals. Christiana Hospital includes Delaware’s only Level I trauma center (as verified by the American College of Surgeons), which is prepared to handle the most extreme medical emergencies for adults and children. In fact, it is the only Level I trauma center on the East Coast corridor between Baltimore and Philadelphia. The nationally recognized Center for Heart and Vascular Health, Helen F. Graham Cancer Center and Research Institute, and Women’s Health services are located on the Christiana Hospital campus. Christiana Hospital has 26 operating rooms (including a four-room advanced videoscopy suite), and a 10 operating room surgicenter.
Inner city, community hospital: Wilmington Hospital
A Wilmington landmark since 1890, fully modernized Wilmington Hospital serves as ChristianaCare’s corporate headquarters and provides ChristianaCare’s distinguished, high-quality health care in the heart of Wilmington. This 241-bed, 622,100-square-foot facility currently includes: an Emergency Department and helipad with aero-medical transport capabilities, the Center for Rehabilitation, the Center for Advanced Joint Replacement, outpatient primary care services, behavioral health, memory care at the nearby Swank Memory Care Center, and more. Wilmington Hospital has 13 operating rooms, and a six operating room surgicenter.
University/academic or community? Large or small? Opposed or unopposed? These are questions students ask themselves when choosing a residency program.
Free standing, rural emergency department: Middletown ED
Middletown Emergency Department
A 24-7 free-standing emergency department serving Middletown and surrounding areas, the Middletown Emergency Department offers state-of-the-art full service emergency health care with board-certified emergency physicians and nurses, 18 treatment rooms, onsite laboratory with walk-in hours and dedicated imaging services.
Advanced simulation training for any scenario
ChristianaCare’s Virtual Education and Simulation Training Center is a state-of-the-art training facility that allows residents and all health care staff at ChristianaCare to experience realistic scenarios with computer-controlled manikins that breathe, speak, blink their eyes and respond to stimuli.
The Virtual Education and Simulation Training Center is outfitted to function like a hospital, complete with a trauma bay, intensive care unit, operating room and standardized patient rooms.
Experience two contrasting hospitals
University/academic or community? Large or small? Opposed or unopposed? These are questions students ask themselves when choosing a residency program.
At ChristianaCare there is no need to choose.
We are fortunate to have the unique combination of a top-rated tertiary-care medical center as well as a growing community hospital, enabling us to enjoy the best of both worlds.
At Christiana Hospital you will appreciate the crucial role our health system plays as a regional center for excellence in heart services (including cardiac surgery and coronary angioplasty), cancer treatment, women’s health services, physical medicine and rehabilitation, infectious diseases, general medicine and surgery, and the state’s high-intensity trauma services. Here, residents will also benefit from education involving multiple residency programs.
At Wilmington Hospital, residents enjoy taking care of patients in a community hospital setting in which family medicine is the primary residency program in the hospital. Residents enjoy the direct contact and teaching they receive from attendings and specialists. Because our second outpatient office is directly across the street from Wilmington Hospital, residents and patients experience wonderful continuity of care.
Additional training sites
- Alfred I. du Pont Hospital for Children.
- Westside Family Healthcare, FQHC.
- Adolescent wellness centers.
- Juvenile detention centers.
- Nursing home and home visits.
- Planned Parenthood of Wilmington