Emergency Medicine Triage Shift
Activity
Clinical Exposure
Clinical Exposure
Students will be scheduled to complete one 2 hour triage shift with nursing staff.
Curriculum Block
Clerkship / Emergency Medicine Rotation
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Objectives
Clerkship Objectives
- Establish and maintain effective working relationships with colleagues and other health care professionals.
- Describe the role of other health professionals in the management of the patient in the ED.
- Demonstrate a basic understanding of the way the ED works (basic functioning, referrals, role of other health professionals).
- Demonstrate the ability to rapidly recognize and initiate basic management of acute life- or limb-threatening illness or injury
- 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.
- Distinguish which conditions are life-threatening or emergent from those that are less urgent.
- Describe the concept of triage and prioritization of care, including paraphrasing the use of Canadian Triage and Acuity Scale (CTAS). Recognize that certain groups of patients require a high index of suspicion for serious illness (e.g.,immunocompromised, chronic renal failure, transplant, extremes of age, intoxicated, and diabetes).
Assessments
Logbook/Portfolio
Clerkship Reflection Paper
Tags
Curriculum Block
Clerkship
Emergency Medicine Rotation
Discipline
Emergency Medicine
MCC Presentations
Trauma
McMaster Program Competencies
1.1 Gather essential and accurate information about patients and their health through history-taking, physical examination, and the use of laboratory data, imaging, and other tests.
1.2 Organize and prioritize responsibilities to provide care that is safe, effective, and efficient
2.3 Apply principles of clinical sciences to diagnostic and therapeutic decision-making, clinical problem-solving, and other aspects of evidence-based healthcare
4.1 Communicate effectively with patients, families, and the public, as appropriate, across a broad range of socioeconomic and sociocultural backgrounds
5.1 Demonstrate accountability to patients, society, and the profession
7.1 Work with other health professionals to establish and maintain a climate of mutual respect, dignity, inclusion, ethical integrity, and trust
8.1 Demonstrate healthy coping mechanisms to respond to stress
MeSH
Decision Support Systems, Clinical [L01.700.508.300.190]
Decision Support Techniques [E05.245]
Emergency Medical Services [N02.421.297]
Trauma Severity Indices [E05.944]
Triage [N02.421.297.900]
