The Emergency Department (ED) at BMC provides 24/7 cutting-edge, comprehensive, team-based emergency medical care, including surgical and subspecialty consult services and specialized pediatric care. We are the largest provider of trauma and emergency services in New England and a national model of excellence in emergency medicine. 

If you are having an emergency, please call 911. If you have medical questions, please call your primary care doctor, or you may come to the Emergency Department to be seen. We are not able to give medical advice over the phone.

Leading Expertise

A National Leader

As one of the largest and busiest EDs in the country, serving more than 130,000 patients per year, we're pioneers in all aspects of emergency medicine.

Community-Centered

We partner with our community to not just deliver exceptional and equitable emergency care, but also to work to eliminate preventable injury and disease and health disparities.

Dedicated to Diversity

We strive to achieve health equity, racial and social justice, and departmental diversity. As a team, we work to create and foster an inclusive and safe environment. 

Programs and Clinics

A team that provides medical consults, links to outpatient treatment, and harm reduction counseling for patients who use drugs and access medical in the Emergency Department.
A children’s emergency department providing 24/7 care for newborns to age 22 with access to pediatric surgery, trauma, ENT, orthopedics, and more.
BMC’s substance use disorder urgent care program that provides a judgment-free home for people with addiction and connections to a network of care.

A program that provides screening and referrals to treatment for patients in BMC's Emergency Department who use drugs and/or alcohol.

Trauma surgeons specially trained to care for urgent injuries and critical conditions provide emergency surgical services, including ER surgery.

Emergency Medicine Education and Training

Clerkships

We offer a variety of electives and clerkships for medication students, including a third-year medical student selective and a clerkship and an emergency medicine ultrasound elective for fourth-year medical students. Our clerkships provide an intense clinical experience in a busy emergency department and trauma center.

Residency

Our residency program is dedicated to giving residents the strength and confidence to treat the most critically injured and medically challenging patients and address the social determinants of health challenges our patients face. We also provide training in a variety of specialties, from global health to emergency ultrasound.

Fellowships

BMC offers emergency medicine fellowships in several subspecialties. In addition to clinical training, fellows receive professional development and scholarship research training, and are appointed at the instructor or assistant professor rank at the BU Chobanian & Avedisian School of Medicine.

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