Emergency Medicine Clerkship

Catalog description

Each student will spend four weeks on an Emergency Medicine Rotation at one of CNUCOM’s affiliated hospital sites. In this setting the students will have the opportunity to hone and develop their skills in patient care, medical knowledge, communication, professionalism, health care systems, personal development, and emergency procedures in the context of evaluating and managing patient who present with medical and surgical emergencies. Special emphasis will be placed on expedient and focused history/physical examinations, developing an appropriate and a logical differential diagnosis and identifying emergent and urgent from routine patient needs. Each student will be expected to participate in the most common medical emergencies routinely seen in an emergency department. To ensure adequate exposure, each student is directed to log required clinical encounter cases, unique to EM. They are also directed to log required procedures completed in the online database the university…