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Emergency Medicine Externship
EMED 5002
Category: Clinical
Eligible: Enrichment Only
Length 2 or 4 weeks
Course Description: This rotation is designed for students interested in Emergency Medicine as a career to give them a chance to work more closely with EM faculty. Students will serve as externs in the Emergency Department seeing patients under the direct supervision of EM faculty. Students will assume the primary medical care responsibilities for patients and work independent of EM resident input. Students will also present a lecture during weekly EM grand rounds. Students will rotate on a local ambulance service for two shifts.
Emergency Medicine Research
EMED 5004
Category: Non-Clinical
Eligible: All
Length 2 or 4 weeks
Course Description: Students will choose a research topic with the aid of the department research director, who will match them to an appropriate faculty member within the Department of EM. The students will perform a literature search and produce a short written research proposal for approval by the Human Assurance Committee. With the aid of the faculty advisor and a research statistician, the student will conduct the research project, analyze the data, and create a one paragraph abstract describing the research findings. In some cases the department may have well developed research projects that require additional assistance. These projects may also be undertaken to fulfill the requirements of the elective.
Emergency Medicine Off-Campus Externship
EMED 5005
Category: Clinical
Eligible: Enrichment Only
Length 2 or 4 weeks
This course requires application using VSLO or other arrangements made by the student. Off-Campus Elective-Form and supporting documents required.
Course Description: Teaching materials will be provided by the chosen facility. The rotation should provide ample clinical experience, patient contact, and procedures. Some sites may have dedicated procedure practice sessions. Clinical instruction in the initial evaluation and stabilization of the acutely ill and injured patient should be provided by working alongside Emergency Medicine faculty (and possibly residents) who are present 24 hours a day. Students should work a variety of shifts including days, evenings and nights, including some weekends.
Emergency Ultrasound
EMED 5008
Category: Clinical
Eligible: Enrichment Only
Length 2 or 4 weeks
Course Description: EMED 5008 is a 4 week elective focusing on point-of-care ultrasound for Year 4 medical students. The goals of this elective course are to promote Point-of-Care Ultrasound (POCUS) as a clinical skills tool to enhance the educational experience of students with basic science content and to transform basic knowledge and experience of students with ultrasound technology to enable readiness to incorporate POCUS skills set into clinical practice. This course will introduce medical students to a variety of POCUS scanning techniques through lectures and hands-on scanning sessions. Course assessments will include didactic learning assessments, image interpretation assessments, and ultrasound scanning assessments.
Rural Emergency Medicine
EMED 5013
Category: Clinical
Eligible: All
Length 2 or 4 weeks
This course does not replace the Emergency Medicine Clerkship. Students must still take EMED 5001.
Students must arrange their own preceptor and location.
Course Description: The schedule includes approximately 34-36 hours of patient contact per week. Students will spend at least one session with a triage nurse in the ED. Students will ride one shift with EMS and one with paramedics during this rotation. Students will work a variety of shifts.