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Department of Emergency Medicine

Johns Hopkins Combined Emergency Medicine Anesthesiology Residency Program

Application Information

The Johns Hopkins University Emergency Medicine-Anesthesiology Combined Residency is a five-year program. We participate in ResidencyCAS for PGY-1 positions through the National Residency Matching Program (NRMP) Match.

Application Requirements

  1. ResidencyCAS application with completed dean’s letter.
  2. Three letters of recommendation, which MUST include the following:
    • One emergency medicine standardized letter of evaluation (SLOE)
    • One anesthesia letter of recommendation (anesthesia or ICU rotation acceptable)
  3. Results of USMLE Step 1 or COMLEX Level 1 (and USMLE Step 2 or COMLEX Level 2, if available). Please note that in order to be submitted on our rank list, all applicants will be required to have passed USMLE Step 2 or COMLEX Level 2 by February 25th.
  4. Applicants with previous residency experience must submit letters from their previous program director.

Foreign/international medical graduate applications must include:

  1. A copy of your Educational Commission for Foreign Medical Graduates (ECFMG) certification
  2. Copies of all ECFMG, Foreign Medical Graduate Examination in the Medical Sciences (FMGEMS) and Federation Licensing Examination (FLEX) scores
  3. Letters of recommendation (as above)
    Note: We require that one letter be from an emergency medicine physician from the U.S., but it is suggested that two of your letters come from emergency physicians.
  4. The hospital accepts ONLY J-1 visas.
  5. One year of U.S. clinical experience is required.
  6. No failing scores on Steps 1 and 2 of the United States Medical Licensing Exam (USMLE).

Deadlines and Interview Scheduling

  1. Please try to have your application complete by ResidencyCAS' deadline of September 24th.
  2. Interviews will be offered to applicants with completed applications starting the first week after the dean's letter is released on October 1st. We will not offer interviews before October 1st except to our own Johns Hopkins students.
  3. Our final application deadline for submitting new applications is October 31st. We receive many competitive applications and encourage applicants to complete their application as soon as possible.
  4. Applicants who are invited to interview receive an email notification from our program.
  5. We encourage our applicants to interview at both the emergency medicine and anesthesia days. Interviews are held on Fridays between Oct 24th and Jan 16th for the emergency medicine program and most Mondays and Tuesdays during this timeframe in anesthesia. We recognize that this may not be possible, and can accommodate applicants to interview with only the emergency medicine program (if they are a primary EM applicant) given the first and final years of our combined program are all emergency medicine.

Interview Day

Emergency Medicine

We are very excited to welcome applicants back to Baltimore as we return to in-person interviews!

Your visit to Johns Hopkins will begin on the Thursday evening before your interview day with an informal social hour with current residents and their partners/spouses. This optional event is an excellent way to meet some of our residents in a casual setting on the Baltimore Harbor waterfront.

The interview day will be held every Friday from 8:00 AM until 3:45 PM.

We start the day at The Johns Hopkins Hospital with a welcome breakfast and program overview with our program director, Dr. Michael Ehmann.

After meeting Dr. Ehmann, our Chief Residents and Assistant and Associate Program Directors will lead you on a tour of the Johns Hopkins Hospital Emergency Department followed by a bus tour of some of the most popular Baltimore neighborhoods that our residents call home.

After a brief shuttle from the hospital to our Mt. Washington Conference Center, you’ll join our faculty and residents for a fascinating case discussion, led by our Department Chair, Dr. Gabe Kelen, at our weekly Chair’s Hour. At the end of conference, applicants will enjoy a catered lunch with our residents.

After lunch, you will have three individual interviews with faculty, residents, and nurses. In between interviews, you’ll chat with a few of our residents in a small group setting, as well as with Dr. Ehmann in a second small group, so that we can get to know you better, and you can get to know us and your fellow applicants a little better too!

The day will conclude with a brief goodbye from Dr. Ehmann at 3:30 PM. At the conclusion of your interview day, an optional complimentary shuttle will be provided back to the day’s starting point at Johns Hopkins Hospital for any applicants who parked there.

Anesthesiology

Each applicant is invited to have a virtual dinner with some of our current residents the night before their interview. This is an informal way for applicants to get a sense of who we are as a program and how they would fit with us. The dinner is not a required event.

The virtual interview day begins at 8:00 AM and ends at noon. Jed Wolpaw, M.D., M.Ed. will begin the day with a warm welcome and provide an environment where you can learn more about the program before starting with interviews or a virtual tour with our residents. We make every effort to make our interview days as enjoyable as possible for the applicant. To that end, we only interview up to eight candidates per interview day.

Please see the FAQ on our categorical emergency medicine residency program page for more information.

The Johns Hopkins Department of Emergency Medicine Residency Program
1830 E. Monument Street
Suite 6-100
Baltimore, MD 21287
[email protected] • 410-955-5107