Clinical: Emergency Medicine

Catalog description

This clerkship involves active participation in patient care in emergency medicine with an emphasis on precise and timely diagnosis and emergency management. It is a hands-on experience that emphasizes patient history, physical exam, assessment, and plan within a framework of disease processes, potential trauma, and therapeutics in emergency medicine. It includes determination of which labs, imaging, and diagnostics to order, interpreting those results, and understanding their impact on the differential diagnosis. The focus is on effective and meaningful patient interaction, and functioning as an essential part of the emergency medicine team. It further explores medical documentation, oral patient presentation, and all aspects of patient management and treatment.