Message from the Program Director

Emergency Medicine Residency Program  ·  ACGME-Accredited  ·  4-Year Categorical

Dear Prospective Resident,

Welcome to one of the most exciting new emergency medicine training programs in the country, built from the ground up with purpose, at one of New England’s premier academic medical centers.

It is my honor to introduce you to the Lahey Clinic Emergency Medicine Residency. As Program Director, I am proud to offer a training environment that combines extraordinary clinical volume and acuity with a genuine commitment to individual resident development, all within one of the most vibrant and livable regions in the United States.

Lahey Hospital & Medical Center is a 342-bed academic medical center and Level I Trauma Center, serving as the tertiary and quaternary referral destination for patients across northeastern Massachusetts and southern New Hampshire. As a cornerstone institution of Beth Israel Lahey Health, one of New England’s largest health systems, Lahey offers residents a clinical environment of exceptional depth and breadth.

Our Emergency Department sees a high volume of undifferentiated, complex, and critically ill patients, exactly the case mix that forges exceptional emergency physicians. You will manage true resuscitations, multisystem trauma activations, and challenging medical emergencies with the full support of comprehensive subspecialty services including cardiac surgery, neurosurgery, vascular surgery, orthopedic surgery, and robust critical care teams. Advanced imaging, interventional capabilities, and a deeply collaborative multidisciplinary culture ensure that every shift is a genuine learning experience.

We are proud to be part of a transformative moment in New England medical education. Lahey Hospital & Medical Center is a founding academic partner of UMass Chan Medical School-Lahey, the newly established regional campus of the University of Massachusetts Chan Medical School. This affiliation represents a landmark investment in academic medicine in the greater Boston area, and our residency program sits at the heart of it.

What does this mean for you as a resident? It means you will train within a thriving academic ecosystem, one with the intellectual energy of a medical school campus, access to a world-class research infrastructure, and the mentorship of faculty who are invested not just in your clinical development, but in your scholarly and academic growth. Whether your interests lie in education, simulation, quality improvement, health systems research, or basic science, the UMass Chan-Lahey partnership opens doors that simply do not exist at most community or even many academic programs.

As one of the inaugural residents in this program, you will have the unique opportunity to help shape the educational culture at a program affiliated with a medical school that is itself writing its own founding chapter. This is a rare privilege in academic medicine, and we take it seriously.

Our ACGME-accredited four-year categorical curriculum is designed to develop residents with progressive autonomy, a strong procedural foundation, and the clinical judgment to thrive in any emergency medicine practice environment. Structured didactics, high-fidelity simulation, point-of-care ultrasound, and dedicated scholarly time are integrated throughout the four years, not added on as afterthoughts.

We are deliberate about mentorship. Our faculty are emergency physicians who chose Lahey because they are passionate about education, and that commitment is reflected in every aspect of how the program is structured. Subspecialty tracks in critical care, ultrasound, medical education, global health, and research allow residents to develop individual expertise without sacrificing the breadth that defines an outstanding emergency physician.

Location matters, not just for your training, but for your life. Burlington, Massachusetts sits just 12 miles northwest of Boston, placing you at the center of one of the world’s great metropolitan areas for medicine, culture, and intellectual life, while offering a quality of life that the urban core simply cannot match. Burlington is a thriving, safe, and welcoming community with excellent housing options, outstanding schools, and an easy commute that leaves time for the things that matter outside of residency.

From Lahey, you are minutes from some of New England’s most beloved landscapes: the trails of the Middlesex Falls Reservation, the beaches and historic towns of the North Shore, and the ski mountains of New Hampshire and Vermont. The storied college towns of Cambridge and Somerville, the world-class museums and restaurants of Boston, and the vibrant arts and music scene of the region are all within easy reach. For those with families, the suburbs north and west of Boston are consistently ranked among the best places in the country to raise children. For those building a new life, the area’s neighborhoods offer the kind of community that makes residency not just something to survive, but something to enjoy.

Boston’s concentration of academic medical centers, research institutions, and professional networks also means that you will graduate into one of the most well-connected physician communities in the world—with relationships and opportunities that will serve your career for decades.

The residents who join us in these first years will do more than complete a residency—they will define it. The culture, the traditions, the standard of excellence that future classes inherit will be the legacy of our inaugural cohort. We are looking for residents who are clinically driven, intellectually curious, and eager to be part of something meaningful.

I invite you to explore our program, visit us in Burlington, and see for yourself what makes Lahey an extraordinary place to train and to live. I look forward to meeting you.