Emergency Room Medicine SCPE

Catalog description

This rotation provides the student with patient care experience in an emergency room setting under the supervision of a clinical site preceptor. The student will gain experience in the evaluation of potential life-threatening conditions and common emergencies to include medical, surgical, and psychiatric illnesses and injuries. The student will be exposed to patients across the lifespan and will learn to triage patients, take rapid and accurate histories, perform appropriate problem-specific physical exams, order diagnostic tests, and formulate treatment plans. Students will be evaluated and tested for this rotation based on the knowledge and skills related to emergency room medicine. Offered each term during the clinical year. Four semester hours.