San Antonio Military Emergency Medicine Residency

🚨 Medical Student Mondays are BACK! 🚨

Are you a medical student interested in Emergency Medicine and curious about military EM training? Join us for a weekly Zoom series hosted by the Emergency Medicine Residency Program at the San Antonio Uniformed Services Health Education Consortium!

📅 Mondays | March 2 – May 11
⏰ 7 PM CST
💻 Live on Zoom

This is a great opportunity to:
✨ Meet EM military leaders (Army, Navy, Air Force)
✨ Gain operational insight
✨ Learn about fellowship opportunities
✨ Get insider advice on audition rotations

Whether you’re 100% EM or just exploring your options, we’d love to meet you!

🔗 Sign up here: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLScPzBF8A-N7J9KnA2IZj19lA3Jlr4xpQMH3-ho9gwAwzrDJpw/viewform
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🎉 Huge Congratulations to Our GSACEP Award Winners! 🎉

We are incredibly proud to recognize the outstanding faculty and residents from the Brooke Army Medical Center Department of Emergency Medicine who received this year’s GSACEP annual awards.

Your leadership, dedication, and commitment to excellence continue to elevate our department, our patients, and the future of military emergency medicine. Thank you for inspiring all of us. 👏🔥

Our BAMC EM awardees will be recognized at the annual Government Services Symposium on 18-20 March in Norfolk, VA.

Please join us in celebrating their achievements! Drop a comment below to show your support ⬇️

🎉🔥 CONGRATS to our SAUSHEC EM Fam that matched into fellowship! 🔥🎉

Huge shoutout to our amazing residents and faculty who were selected this Military Match to head off to fellowship training! 🩺🚀

We’re so proud of you all! Your hard work, late nights, crazy shifts, and nonstop dedication paid off in a big way.

Drop some love in the comments to hype up this crew! 👇🙌

Fellowship destinations coming soon… stay tuned 👀

SAUSHEC EM: Saving Lives on the Battlefield Since 1977

🇺🇸🚑 WELCOME TO OUR SAUSHEC EM FAMILY CLASS OF 2029! 🚑🇺🇸
With immense pride and excitement, we welcome our newest interns to the San Antonio Uniformed Services Health Education Consortium (SAUSHEC) Emergency Medicine Residency – Class of 2029!
This year, we proudly matched 17 outstanding tri-service interns:
🪖 8 Army
🛩️ 8 Air Force
⚓ 1 Navy
You are now officially part of our EM family—a community built on service, teamwork, resilience, and excellence in the hardest moments of medicine. The future of military emergency medicine has never looked brighter, and it starts with you!
From your first trauma activation to your last resuscitation as seniors years from now, we are honored to train you, challenge you, and stand beside you every step of the way.
Saving Lives on the Battlefield since 1977💪
👇 Drop a message to congratulate the Class of 2029!



🎓🇺🇸 Congratulations to the newest graduates of the San Antonio Uniformed Services Health Education Consortium (SAUSHEC) Emergency Medicine Residency!

Your dedication, resilience, and service have shaped you into the kind of physicians our military and nation can be proud of. We can’t wait to see the impact you’ll make as leaders in military emergency medicine.

Here’s to a future of saving lives and leading from the front—onward and upward!

What better way to celebrate cinco de mayo than sharing a virtual margarita with our EM consultants!

Join our Army, Navy, and Air Force EM consultants for our last Med Stud Monday of the season. Learn about the current state of military emergency medicine and what jobs you can anticipate!

Email [email protected] for the zoom link! 1900 CST.

Congrats to our residents who presented their research at GSACEP and SAUSHEC Research competitions!

GSACEP
*FIRST PLACE ORIGINAL RESEARCH*- Dr Rebecca McCune: The Effect of Environmental Hypothermia on
Survival in Isolated Blunt Traumatic Brain Injury
-Dr Spencer Knierim - An analysis of 24-hour survival based on arrival by atypical ground transport versus ground emergency medical services
-Dr Austin MacDonald -Ring Injuries Presenting to Emergency Departments in The United States, 2012-2021: Maybe you shouldn’t put a ring on it

SAUSHEC Patient Safety Week:
*THIRD PLACE* Dr. Grant Gerstner •Establishing Training for Medication-Assisted Treatment for Opioid Use Disorder in the Emergency Department

BAMC’s research output among military programs is nothing short of phenomenal - Our ED received over $53 million in grants last year, 332 Pub Med ID’s, 16 textbook chapters, and 145 national presentations and podcasts. If research interests you, we have a research scholarly track program where you can work with EM Research mentors from the Institute of Surgical Research! Email [email protected] for more information!

Congrats to our PGY-3’s who CRUSHED the GSACEP New Speaker Competition!

*FIRST PLACE* Dr Austin MacDonald - Catching Chaos(Eden): Logging my most unexpected delivery in residency

*THIRD PLACE* Dr Summer Walton - Who Needs Plastics? Perfecting the Pediatric Laceration Repair

Dr Hailey Renaeu: Bots, Bytes, and Bandages: How AI is reshaping battlefield medicine

Congrats to our sim team for winning GSACEP’s SIMWARS competition for the THIRD YEAR IN A ROW! Our residents dominated all other military residencies once again! This year’s scenario was a role II MASCAL involving multiple polytrauma’s and an injured military working dog. Shoutout to Drs. McKeegan, Hegedus, Gorr, and Collins for the win! (And Dr. Ramirez for his excellent walking wounded acting skills)

It’s no surprise our residents are top in simulation! Our residents work in the DoD’s only Level I trauma center, lead our trauma resuscitations. We have a robust military unique curriculum that trains our residents to function at JOINT Role I, II, III medical care and joint en route care (to include MWD’s). Also, our residents have access to the military’s only resident scholarly tract program for EM simulation - getting access to simulation research opportunities, additional faculty development in simulation, case creation, and national simulation competitions.

If you want to be among the TOP military emergency medicine residents in operational simulation, email [email protected] today!

Our residency hosted its annual ITE review day on high yield emergency medicine topics before their exam. Residents competed in their Hogwarts Houses for the House Cup!

Join the DoD’s FIRST and ONLY Tri-Service (Army, Navy, Air Force) EM residency program!

Now scheduling rotations for 2025! Email [email protected]

Website: https://www.health.mil/Military-Health-Topics/DHA-GME/Institutions/SAUSHEC/Programs/em

Happiest holidays from our PGY-3s :)