Emergency Medicine (Clinical Elective)

4 units

This four week elective will encompass all aspects of Emergency Medicine, with clinical time spent in the main urban trauma center as well as in a community setting. In addition, to seeing a wide range of pathology at the two sites, students will be given the opportunity for a 1:1 teaching shift, toxicology shift, and nursing shift, as well as a shift with ancillary departments such as social work and respiratory therapy. Students will be expected to attend grand rounds and teaching lectures as well as team-based learning and simulation sessions. Students will work in the trauma/critical care area and general medicine areas of the ED, and are expected to see patients independently, present to the team, perform basic procedures with guidance, call consults, and sign out patients to the oncoming team.