Over the past five years, Florida has experienced unprecedented growth in emergency medicine residency programs. Keeping up with the rapid expansion of programs had been difficult without an online guide.
EMpulse Magazine reserves space for each Florida EM residency program to submit a quarterly update. This fosters collaboration among organizations and keeps FCEP members up-to-date on the latest research and happenings at each program. Many FCEP members work as faculty at these residency programs or are alumni.
When developing fcep.org, I decided to create an online guide for Florida's EM residency programs. I did some research to see if anything already existed, but there was nothing specific to Florida. The guide simply lists each program, divided by region, with their main hospital graphic, location, and a button to learn more. Each program has its own page that lists basic information, a button to the program's website, and a list of the EMpulse Magazine articles their program has produced.
The page was an immediate hit. Since April 15, 2021, the page has received 3,979 unique page views (as of writing this on 11/18/22) and is the #1 organic result on Google when searching for "Florida emergency medicine residency programs." It is fcep.org's #5 top performing page of all time, and the page is viewed at least 40 times every day. I have learned that residents and medical students discover FCEP through this page, which was a goal: driving new users, who aspire careers in emergency medicine, to our website.
