The UTMB Sealy Department of Emergency Medicine at the University of Texas Medical Branch in Galveston, Texas is a newly created department which brings the full spectrum of trauma and emergency acute care along with groundbreaking innovation to the well-established UTMB Health facilities within the greater University of Texas System.
We are thrilled to announce that we have achieved accreditation and approval of our 3-year ACGME-accredited Emergency Medicine Residency Program and our combined 4-year ACGME accredited Emergency Medicine/Aerospace Residency Program.
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Dietrich Jehle, MD, FACEP, RDMS serves as Program Director, Professor, and Chair of the Sealy Department of Emergency Medicine at the University of Texas Medical Branch (UTMB) in Galveston. With a distinguished career spanning both academic and community hospital settings, Dr. Jehle previously served for 27 years as Director of Emergency Medical Services for the Buffalo Bills. He has successfully developed emergency medicine residency programs at three academic medical centers and is proud to lead UTMB’s Emergency Medicine and Emergency Medicine Aerospace Programs.
Our mission is to improve the health of the people of Texas and beyond through innovative education and training, groundbreaking research, and the highest quality patient care.
The UTMB Emergency Medicine Residency offers a comprehensive, academically rigorous curriculum anchored in a tertiary academic medical center. Residents gain exposure to a wide range of pathology and high-acuity cases across diverse patient populations. In addition to the main campus in Galveston, residents rotate at UTMB’s League City, Clear Lake, and Angleton-Danbury campuses. This provides a unique opportunity to train in academic, community, urban, suburban, rural, and coastal settings.
What sets UTMB Emergency Medicine apart:
- Collaborating with the UTMB Aerospace Medicine Program in partnership with NASA and commercial space initiatives
- Unique opportunities to collaborate and provide onsite care with the Polar Medicine group in Antarctica
- Elective Rotation-Japan
- Train at a top-tier academic medical center, home to a Level 1 Trauma and Burn Center
- Learn in a state-of-the-art, 77-room simulation center— the largest in the country
- Develop ultrasound proficiency with fellowship-trained faculty, including one of the pioneers of bedside ultrasound (POCUS)
- Participate in NIH-supported translational research initiatives
- Provide care to patients arriving from one of the busiest cruise ports in United States.
We are deeply committed to providing dynamic, high-caliber residency experience, supported by a faculty of nationally recognized Emergency Medicine physicians at the forefront of clinical care and research. I welcome your inquiries about our program.
Best Regards,
Dietrich Jehle, MD, FACEP, RDMS
Program Director, Professor & Chair
Sealy Department of Emergency Medicine
University of Texas Medical Branch