Emergency Medicine/Critical Care

Catalog description

One four-week rotation is required in Emergency Medicine. Emergency Medicine focuses on the students experiencing the delivery of emergency/urgent care to a diverse population of patients and the management of serious experiences. Experiences will include diagnosis, management, and referral of patients presenting to an acute care facility. Students preparing for careers in primary care need skills necessary for the immediate assessment and management of life-threatening and urgent conditions or for the stabilization of such conditions prior to referral to another treatment facility. Hence, students are involved in making an initial evaluation of the patient working with the attending physician to establish an appropriate plan. Students may have the opportunity to learn techniques of cardiac life support, airway management, and chest tube insertion. Clinical experiences in critical care may be utilized for the Emergency Medicine rotation.