Emergency Medicine Clerkship
Assessment
Essential Clinical Experience Completion
Essential Clinical Experience Completion
The purpose of the Essential Clinical Experience is to ensure that all students cover high-priority areas longitudinally throughout clerkship.
Curriculum Block
Emergency Medicine Rotation
- Indicates most relevant
Objectives
Essential Clinical Experience
- Participate in a discussion, or prepare a written analysis, in regards to an ethical dilemma.
- Wound cleansing / dressing
- Participate in a discussion in which "bad news" is communicated to a patient or family.
- Communicate with a patient or family when there is a language or cultural barrier (not necessarily using an interpreter).
- Communicate information about diagnosis, prognosis or therapy using lay language.
- Collaborate with the interprofessional team around the care of a patient.
- Participate in a discussion in which aspects or limits of confidentiality are explored.
- Obtain informed consent for a procedure or treatment.
- Participate in a discussion regarding decisional capacity.
- Splint/Cast extremity
- Access evidence-based information/resources relevant to a clinical problem and discuss with supervisor or team.
- Apply evidence-based information to inform decision making and share with patient or family.
- Basic airway manoeuvre
- CPR
- Local anesthetic infiltration
- Place patient on oxygen
- Place patient on pulse oximeter
- Pregnancy Problems - SA, ectopic
- Abnormal behaviour (agitated patient, psychosis, intoxication, delirium, violence)
- Cardiac arrest
- Chest Pain
- Dyspnea
- Headache
- Injury, lower extremity
- Injury, upper extremity
- Neck/Back Pain (Incl. Disease)
- Abdominal pain, acute (< 48 hrs)
- Shock (hemodynamic compromise)
- Loss of Consciousness (Syncope/seizure)
- Toxic ingestion
- 12 Lead EKG (15 Lead optional)
- Cardiac monitor lead placement
- Closure of wound (skin)
- IV start, Peripheral
Activities
Essential Clinical Experience
- Abdominal pain, acute (< 48 hrs)
- Abnormal behaviour (agitated patient, psychosis, intoxication, delirium, violence)
- Cardiac arrest
- Chest Pain
- Dyspnea
- Headache
- Injury, lower extremity
- Injury, upper extremity
- Neck/Back Pain (Incl. Disease)
- Pregnancy Problems - SA, ectopic
- Shock (hemodynamic compromise)
- Loss of Consciousness (Syncope/seizure)
- Toxic ingestion
- 12 Lead EKG (15 Lead optional)
- Cardiac monitor lead placement
- Closure of wound (skin)
- IV start, Peripheral
- Splint/Cast extremity
- Wound cleansing / dressing
- Participate in a discussion in which "bad news" is communicated to a patient or family.
- Communicate with a patient or family when there is a language or cultural barrier (not necessarily using an interpreter).
- Communicate information about diagnosis, prognosis or therapy using lay language.
- Collaborate with the interprofessional team around the care of a patient.
- Participate in a discussion in which aspects or limits of confidentiality are explored.
- Obtain informed consent for a procedure or treatment.
- Participate in a discussion regarding decisional capacity.
- Participate in a discussion, or prepare a written analysis, in regards to an ethical dilemma.
- Access evidence-based information/resources relevant to a clinical problem and discuss with supervisor or team.
- Apply evidence-based information to inform decision making and share with patient or family.
- Basic airway manoeuvre
- CPR
- Local anesthetic infiltration
- Place patient on oxygen
- Place patient on pulse oximeter
- Primary Presentation
Tags
Curriculum Block
Emergency Medicine Rotation
Discipline
Emergency Medicine
McMaster Program Competencies
2.3 Apply principles of clinical sciences to diagnostic and therapeutic decision-making, clinical problem-solving, and other aspects of evidence-based healthcare
