Emergency Medicine Triage Shift
Activity
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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Assessments

Logbook/Portfolio
Clerkship Reflection Paper

Tags

Curriculum Block
Clerkship Emergency Medicine Rotation
Discipline
Emergency Medicine
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 1.3 Interpret laboratory data, imaging studies, and other tests required for the area of practice 1.4 Make informed decision about diagnostic and therapeutic interventions based on patient information and preferences, up-to-date scientific evidence, and clinical judgment 1.5 Develop and carry out patient management plans 1.6 Perform or assist with medical, diagnostic, and surgical procedures considered essential for the area of practice. 1.7 Counsel and educate patients and their families to empower them to participate in their care and enable shared decision-making 2.2 Apply biomedical scientific principles fundamental to health care for patients and populations. 3.1 Solicit and respond to feedback from peers, teachers, supervisors, patients, families, and members of health care teams regarding one’s knowledge, skills, attitudes and professional behaviours 3.2 Integrate feedback, external measures of performance and reflective practices to identify strengths, deficiencies, and limits in one’s knowledge, skills, attitudes and professional behaviours 3.8 Obtain and use information about individual patients and their caregivers, populations of patients, or communities with which patients identify to improve care 3.9 Continually identify, analyze, and implement new knowledge, guidelines, standards, technologies, products, or services that have been demonstrated to improve outcomes 4.1 Communicate effectively with patients, families, and the public, as appropriate, across a broad range of socioeconomic and sociocultural backgrounds 4.2 Participate in the education of patients, families, students, trainees, peers and other health professionals 4.3 Demonstrate sensitivity, honesty, and compassion in difficult conversations, including those about death, end of life, adverse events, bad news, disclosure of errors, and other sensitive topics 4.4 Demonstrate insight and understanding about emotions and human responses to emotions that allow one to develop and manage interpersonal interactions, including the ability to manage one’s own interpersonal responses 4.5 Maintain comprehensive, timely, and legible medical records 5.1 Demonstrate accountability to patients, society, and the profession 5.11 Demonstrate trustworthiness and reliability that makes colleagues feel secure when one is responsible for the care of patients 5.12 Present oneself professionally to patients, families, and members of the health care team 5.2 Demonstrate compassion, integrity, and respect for others 5.4 Demonstrate respect for patient confidentiality, privacy and autonomy 5.5 Demonstrate sensitivity and responsiveness to a diverse patient population, including all dimensions of diversity such as those that are included in human rights legislation and federal and provincial law. 5.7 Demonstrate the application of ethical principles to commonly encountered ethical issues such as the provision or withholding of care, confidentiality, informed consent, and including compliance with relevant laws, policies, and regulations 5.9 Maintain appropriate boundaries with patients and other professionals 6.3 Advocate for quality patient care and optimal patient care systems that support patient- and population-centred care that is safe, timely, efficient, effective, and equitable 6.6 Coordinate patient care within the health care system relevant to a variety of clinical specialties 6.9 Perform administrative and practice management responsibilities commensurate with one’s role, abilities, and qualifications 7.1 Work with other health professionals to establish and maintain a climate of mutual respect, dignity, inclusion, ethical integrity, and trust 7.2 Use the knowledge of one’s own role and the roles of other health professionals to appropriately assess and address the health care needs of the patients and populations served 7.3 Communicate with other health professionals in a responsive and responsible manner that supports the maintenance of health and the provision of healthcare in individual patients and populations 7.4 Demonstrate the ability to consult with and to other health professionals 7.6 Participate in different team roles and appropriately apply leadership skills to establish, develop, and continuously enhance team function. 8.1 Demonstrate healthy coping mechanisms to respond to stress 8.5 Recognize that ambiguity is part of clinical health care and respond by utilizing appropriate resources in dealing with uncertainty
MeSH
Clinical Clerkship [I02.358.399.450.110] Emergency Medical Services [N02.421.297] Triage [N02.421.297.900]