Emergency Medicine

Catalog description

The MS III OBSTERICS/GYNECOLOGY, PEDIATRICS, SURGERY, EMERGENCY MEDICINE and FAMILY MEDICINE LONGITUDINAL BLOCK will be cover a full semester in which the student will have an opportunity to integrate teaching and learning experiences across the disciplines, observing the developmental continuum from prenatal to postnatal life and gaining an understanding of medical and surgical treatment options for patients of all ages with a variety of conditions across multiple settings. The Emergency Medicine rotation during the OPSEF Block is a unique learning opportunity designed to provide students with early exposure to the specialty and to the urgent and emergent care of children and adolescents. Students will assess undifferentiated patients and develop their own diagnostic and therapeutic management plans, integrating and applying knowledge from the other disciplines encountered in the block. Clinical experiences will be augmented by didactics and additional field experiences, including the 911 center, poison center and EMS ride out.