Advanced Emergency Medicine Elective
The Advanced Emergency Medicine Elective offered by NYU Langone Health’s Ronald O. Perelman Department of Emergency Medicine is for senior medical students at NYU Grossman School of Medicine and other Liaison Committee on Medical Education–accredited schools who are interested in pursuing a career in emergency medicine.
Our four-week elective, considered a sub internship, provides significant clinical responsibilities and didactics that form the academic core of our department.
Objectives of the Elective
Senior medical students receive exposure to the diverse array of clinical problems encountered in the emergency department, and train in the arts of assessment and treatment. Students learn how to think critically in various busy urban emergency department settings, including NYU Langone Health’s Ronald O. Perelman Center for Emergency Services, NYU Langone Hospital—Brooklyn, The Home Depot Emergency Department at NYU Langone Health—Cobble Hill, and NYC Health + Hospitals/Bellevue, and work closely with emergency medicine residents and faculty to diagnose and manage critically and noncritically ill patients using evidence-based medicine.
Students are expected to manage more than one patient simultaneously, devise and implement appropriate patient care plans, and follow and reevaluate their patients through disposition. They take concise histories, perform physicals, present cases to residents and attendings, and communicate and work efficiently within a team.
Key Responsibilities for Medical Students
Students have direct patient management responsibility under close supervision by the attending faculty.
We require mandatory participation in all departmental activities, including two days of orientation, clinical shifts, didactic lectures, ultrasound and procedure workshops, simulation sessions, and conferences.
Students are scheduled for a variety of emergency medicine shifts at Ronald O. Perelman Center for Emergency Services and Bellevue in Manhattan, and at NYU Langone Hospital—Brooklyn and The Home Depot Emergency Department at NYU Langone Health—Cobble Hill in Brooklyn. Shifts last eight hours and may occur on days, evenings, nights, and weekends.
Didactic Program
The didactic program involves participation in flipped classroom lectures taught by emergency medicine faculty and senior residents, an airway simulation lab, a central venous line lab, simulation sessions in critical care, and weekly residency conferences. Students also have opportunities to attend conferences in pediatric emergency medicine, ultrasound, toxicology, and quality improvement.
Elective Scheduling Information
The Advanced Emergency Medicine Elective is a four-week rotation. We are accepting visiting medical students to rotate with us in person during July, August, September, and October 2026. Visiting medical students who have completed their away rotation with us will be eligible for an electronic standardized letter of evaluation (eSLOE) for the ResidencyCAS https://residencycas.com.
2026 Rotation Dates for Visiting Students
- July 6 to August 2
- August 3 to August 30
- August 31 to September 27
- October 5 to November 1
If accepted, students will be eligible to apply for one of ten $1,000 scholarships to those who have demonstrated a commitment to service, community engagement, mentorship, and/or improving access to high-quality medical care. Information on how to apply will be forthcoming to students after confirming their acceptance.
Please see VSLO for a complete list of requirements including:
- A letter of good standing from your medical school, dated in the last calendar year
- N95 mask fit certification
- Copy of current basic life support (BLS) certification
- Proof of malpractice insurance (minimum of $1 million per claim and $3 million aggregate)
- $150 application fee, due to the NYU Grossman School of Medicine registrar’s office on the first day of the elective payment by check.
- Personal statement explaining your interest in our rotation (250 words max)
- An updated CV
Additional information for visiting medical students may be found here:
Preparing to Apply for the Emergency Medicine Residency
We conduct in-person residency interviews with all students enrolled in the Advanced Elective in Emergency Medicine who are interested in applying to the Emergency Medicine Residency offered by NYU Grossman School of Medicine. Interviews are scheduled during the four-week rotation and occur on preset dates. Please bring a business suit to your rotation for your interview day. If a student defers to the scheduled interview, a later interview is not guaranteed.
Faculty Mentorship and Assessment
Each student is paired with an emergency medicine faculty mentor with a special interest in education and mentoring. During the four-week rotation, students work with that faculty member for three or four clinical shifts. This provides an opportunity for each student to get to know a faculty member on a more personal level and for the faculty member to evaluate students’ progress over the course of the rotation. Each faculty mentor provides an assessment at the end of the rotation, which enhances the standardized letter of evaluation prepared by the undergraduate medical education team.
Those who do choose to interview for the residency during their rotation still need to apply via ERAS.
Contact Us
The preceptors for the Advanced Emergency Medicine Elective are May H. Li, MD, Masashi Rotte, MD, Amy B. Bass, MD, and Ryan Latulipe, MD.
For general inquiries about the program and how to apply, contact Ellie Pena, administrative coordinator, at Ellie.Pena@NYULangone.org or 646-501-6735.
Disclaimer: NYU Langone’s programs do not include preferences, quotas, or set asides, or otherwise exclude anyone based on race, sex, or other protected categories.