SURG 9311 Emergency Medicine
The Emergency Medicine clerkship is a 4-week-long rotation in which students will be working side-by-side with Emergency Medicine attending physicians, nurses, and ancillary staff in the ER, taking care of undifferentiated patients. The ER is a unique environment: patients rarely present with a known diagnosis, gathering information is challenging, the level of acuity is high, the patient population is extremely diverse in socioeconomic background, and students must learn to interact with members of the healthcare profession serving many different roles. The Emergency Medicine rotation will be one of your best opportunities during medical school to develop skills in performing a history and physical, presenting patients to other physicians, and performing common procedures.
Objectives for the rotation are based on the six Accreditation Council of Graduate Medical Education (ACGME) core competencies on which emergency medicine residency education is based. The overall goal of the Emergency Medicine Rotation is to help students develop the necessary skills to diagnose and manage patients with undifferentiated urgent and emergent conditions.
Prerequisite
Successful Completion of MS1 and MS2 curricula
Offered
As scheduled