Emergency Medicine: Introduction

Catalog description

This course will be an introduction to the specialty of Emergency Medicine the safety net of our health care system. This course is designed for students interested in medicine/emergency medicine and public health. This lecture based series will explore the depth and breadth of EM. You will hear from world-renowned faculty from the Department of Emergency Medicine on various concepts, and specialties within the field - such as Global Health, Pandemics and Bioterrorism, Pre-hospital Care, Sports Medicine, Wilderness Medicine, Pediatrics, Health Care Policy, Social Determinants of Health in Emergency Medicine, just to name a few. Students (MD, PA, and undergraduates) can add a second unit by doing a minimum of 2, 4-hr shadow shifts in the Emergency Department which the course will assist in scheduling.