Emergency Department
The emergent care of the critically ill and injured child occurs in the 12 room Connecticut Children's Medical Center Emergency Department. With an annual census of 35,000 visits, pediatric residents have the opportunity to evaluate and care for children with the full spectrum of medical and surgical emergencies. The CCMC ED is staffed 24 hours a day by attending physicians. The attending physicians precept the pediatric resident on all patients they see and provide ongoing case-based teaching during these interactions. These physicians also serve as medical control for the pediatric transport team. Other educational activities include weekly pediatric emergency medicine case conferences, emergency radiology conference, mock codes, and a pediatric emergency medicine longitudinal elective. Residents are assigned to the CCMC ED one month each year and also perform cross coverage during their primary care rotation.

23 Hour Unit
The CCMC ED is immediately adjacent to the 11 bed pediatric 23 hour unit or observation unit. Here children with common pediatric diseases such as asthma, dehydration, seizures, poisoning and abdominal pain are cared for up to 24 hours after presentation to ensure a safe discharge home. Patients undergoing elective procedures or testing are also treated here. Of the 1500 patients/year admitted to the observation unit, approximately 1000 are cared for by the Pediatric Emergency Medicine division. Pediatric residents share in the care of these patients under attending supervision in the course of their Emergency Department rotations.

Toxicology service
This service is staffed by 2 board certified medical toxicologists in the Division of Pediatric Emergency Medicine. These attending physicians provide inpatient medical toxicology consultation, serve as consultants to the Connecticut Regional Poison Control Center in Farmington, CT and provide faculty for the Toxicology Longitudinal Elective available to pediatric residents.