Junior Internship in Family Medicine-Emergency Medicine

Catalog description

This is a face to face clinical rotation. The student will function as a junior intern with increased autonomy in patient care and must demonstrate competency in all of the Entrustable Professional Activities required for graduation. This junior internship provides medical students the opportunity to gain training in the hospital emergency department for the care of ambulatory patients with emergency and life threatening problems. The student will be able to formulate assessments of patients and present to the emergency department staff physician along with plan of treatment and disposition. Students will be exposed to adult medicine, pediatrics, OB/GYN, surgical, and behavioral emergencies. Attending physician faculty and emergency medicine fellows will always be present and provide direct supervision. The usual schedule may vary, but will include a total of 160 contact hours by working up to 10 to 12 hour shifts.