Essentials of Emergency Medicine

Catalog description

This course focuses on didactic preparation for the required emergency medicine clerkship. It explores the clinical discipline of emergency medicine, the fundamentals of acute, urgent, and emergent patient care and those affected by this. Pathophysiology, clinical manifestations, and appropriate patient management are emphasized. It covers patient history and physical exam, emergency patient evaluation, appropriate laboratory tests, imaging, and other diagnostics, differential diagnosis, and treatment used in patients in the acute/urgent/emergent setting.