Emergency Medicine

Catalog description

The Emergency Medicine clerkship is specifically designed as a 5-week clinical clerkship rotation providing students with exposure to and training with a diverse population of male and female pediatric, adolescent, adult, and geriatric patients in the emergency medicine practice setting. The clerkship focus is on epidemiology, pathophysiology, clinical presentation, interviewing and physical examination, laboratory, imaging, and procedural evaluation, medical education, counseling and preventative care, and the treatment and management of patients presenting with acute and emergent medical conditions. In this clerkship students have the opportunity to develop skills necessary for appropriate triage, stabilization, and initial management of patients with acute and emergent problems in an emergency department setting. Where possible, students participate in grand rounds, noon conferences, and other clinically relevant didactic presentations. Each student is assigned a clinical site and preceptor at the inception of the clinical year. Prerequisites: Successful completion of the didactic year of the Physician Assistant Studies curriculum. The pre-requisites of MS 504C, 508B, 511, 512, 513 and 514 are all required.