PEDI 9515 Pediatric Emergency Medicine-DCC
The Pediatric Emergency Medicine rotation at Driscoll Children's Hospital is designed to develop the skills, attitudes and knowledge that constitute a good foundation in pediatric emergency medicine for a future physician. Students will help identify the signs and symptoms of emergent problems as well as common diagnoses which present to the emergency department. They will demonstrate appropriate resuscitation and stabilization of critically ill or injured children in the emergency department. Medical students will learn to emphasize cost-effective utilization of ancillary data including labs, imaging studies, monitoring techniques, etc. and suggest logical and efficient approaches to care of patients applying the principles of decision making and problem solving as part of an interdisciplinary team. The rotation will assist the student in acquiring the procedural skills commonly used in emergency department and discuss and demonstrate more advanced procedural skills including but not limited to ER intubation, interosseous or central venous lines, arterial lines, etc. As well as develop their knowledge in reviewing other issues that are emergency medicine oriented, including but not limited to EMS-C, medical/legal/ethical issues, toxicology, analgesia and anesthesia in the emergency department, universal precautions, injury wound and burn care, environmental emergencies, etc.
Prerequisite: Successful completion of MS3 clerkships.
Offered
As scheduled