Orientation to Emergency Medicine
Activity
Large Group Session
Large Group Session
Rotation road map, expectations, evaluation, approach to clinical decision rules, how ER docs think, charting, oral presentations in the ED, approach to the undifferentiated patient, prescriptions, when to call the coroner, mandatory reporting.
Curriculum Block
Clerkship / Emergency Medicine Rotation
- Indicates most relevant
Objectives
Clerkship Objectives
- Demonstrate the ability to present a patient case in a clear, concise, and complete manner.
- Demonstrate thorough, clear, and concise documentation and charting.
- Demonstrate an understanding of the concepts of evidence-based medicine and best practice guidelines and how they relate to patient care in the ED.
- Demonstrate an ability to access various educational resources available to enhance patient care.
- Demonstrate the ability to rapidly recognize and initiate basic management of acute life- or limb-threatening illness or injury
- Describe a basic differential diagnosis including the significant worst-case diagnosis for every patient assessed.
- Demonstrate a basic systematic, prioritized approach to resuscitation and stabilization of emergencies.
- Demonstrate a basic ability to distinguish seriously ill or injured patients from those with minor conditions.
Tags
Curriculum Block
Clerkship
Emergency Medicine Rotation
Discipline
Emergency Medicine
McMaster Program Competencies
6.5 Work effectively in various health care delivery settings and systems relevant to a variety of clinical specialties
MeSH
Emergency Medicine [H02.403.250]
Mandatory Reporting [I01.880.604.583.080.134.300]
Medical Records [L01.280.900.968]
