Emergency Medicine Sub-Internship

Catalog description

This Emergency Medicine clerkship is scheduled with a preceptor who is an expert in this field. It is intended to enhance the student’s ability to recognize emergent conditions and initiate evaluation and stabilizing treatment, to better equip students for starting internship. Students will experience the day- to-day activities of clinicians as they assist in patient care. Exposure to patients in the clinical setting will give the student an opportunity to practice interview, examination, documentation and presentation skills. These activities help develop student’s clinical reasoning and provide opportunities to learn necessary professional activities. Students may be afforded by the preceptor the opportunity to participate in procedures as the preceptor deems appropriate. The curriculum for this rotation is based on nationally recognized recommendations from Clerkship Directors of Emergency Medicine. For further reading see CDEM Curriculum (saem.org)