Emergency Medicine Introductory

Catalog description

This is a 2-week elective that seeks to introduce the student to the field of Emergency Medicine. Students will be expected to gain a broad understanding of the core principles, foundational knowledge, and essential skills relevant to the specialty through encounters with a diverse range of medical and surgical cases, from fast-track to critically ill. Students will gain this experience through a hands-on, problem-based approach to the immediate recognition and treatment of acute disorders spanning the entirety of medicine, surgery, pediatrics, gynecology, and psychiatry. Students will have direct patient care and management responsibility under close supervision by attending faculty. The elective’s comprehensive curriculum includes clinical shifts at three of our emergency care sites.