Specialty Residency
Emergency Medicine
General Information
The Department of Pharmacy at The Johns Hopkins Hospital offers a Specialized Residency in Emergency Medicine. This program has been approved for pre-candidate residency status through ASHP. This one-year program is designed to provide advanced training in emergency medicine pharmacy practice focusing on patient care, clinical research, and education.
Program Description
The Johns Hopkins Hospital is designated a Level I Trauma Center and is the regional pediatric trauma center and eye trauma center for the State of Maryland. The Hopkins Adult Emergency Department (ED) includes 21 treatment beds, three critical care rooms, and a separate psychiatric treatment area. An expanded Urgent Care Center contiguous to the main ED has five beds. The Emergency Acute Care Unit (EACU) is part of the ED, but is located on a separate unit on the sixth floor of the hospital. It contains 14 treatment beds to be used for both acute patient management and longitudinal observation of patients. The Adult ED treats approximately 160 patients per day. The Pediatric ED includes six acute and five intermediate care treatment beds, two critical care beds, and 11 urgent care beds. The Pediatric ED treats approximately 65 patients per day. The adult and pediatric emergency departments serve the neighboring East Baltimore population primarily, but also serve a variety of patients drawn to Hopkins by its specialty services.
This residency program is designed to allow the resident to become familiar with all aspects of emergency care, including pharmacotherapy, toxicology, emergency preparedness, and regulatory requirements specific to the ED setting. Specialty residents in emergency medicine will demonstrate an understanding and working knowledge of the pathophysiology, diagnosis, and management of disease states common within the ED. They will focus on optimizing drug therapy through the development of evidence-based treatment plans. Upon completion of the residency the resident will have developed the clinical skills necessary to practice as an emergency medicine clinical specialist.
The Specialty Residency in Emergency Medicine is a twelve-month program. Ten months are devoted to orientation and core experiences. Two months are available for electives.
Program Director
Umbreen Idrees Murtaza, PharmD, BCPS
Title: Clinical Specialist, Emergency Medicine
Education: Doctor of Pharmacy, University of Michigan
Training: Pharmacy Practice Residency- University of Pittsburgh Medical Center
Specialty Residency in Emergency Medicine Pharmacotherapy- Detroit Receiving Hospital and University Health System
Contact Information
Umbreen Idrees Murtaza, PharmD, BCPS
Program Director, Emergency Medicine Specialty Residency
Department of Pharmacy
The Johns Hopkins Hospital
600 North Wolfe Street / Carnegie 180
Baltimore, Maryland 21287-6180
Phone: (443) 287-2929
Email: uidrees1@jhmi.edu
