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Abdominal Pain
Activity
Clerkship Teaching Session
Develop an approach to undifferentiated abdominal pain. Describe early management of abdominal pain.

Curriculum Block

Clerkship / Emergency Medicine Rotation
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Objectives

Clerkship Objectives
  • Abdominal pain
  • 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.

Tags

Basic Sciences
Diagnosis
Curriculum Block
Clerkship Emergency Medicine Rotation
Discipline
Emergency Medicine
General MCC Objectives
Clinical Judgement And Decision-Making Investigations Management Skills Physical Examination
MCC Presentations
Abdominal Injuries Acute Abdominal Pain Pelvic Pain
McMaster Program Competencies
2.2 Apply biomedical scientific principles fundamental to health care for patients and populations. 2.3 Apply principles of clinical sciences to diagnostic and therapeutic decision-making, clinical problem-solving, and other aspects of evidence-based healthcare
MeSH
Abdominal Pain [C23.888.646.100] Diagnosis, Differential [E01.171]

Related Activities

The following activities occur in the same curriculum block:

  • EM Medical Expert (presenting problems)
  • Diagnosis in the ER
  • Emergency Medicine Manager
  • Procedural Skills in the ER
  • Interpretive skills in the ER
  • Communication Skills in the ER
  • Managing Acute Illness in the ER
  • Shock and Sepsis in the Emergency Department
  • Approach to Trauma and Burns
  • Approach to Toxicology

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