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Emergency Medicine General Competencies

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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.
Demonstrate a focused history and physical examination.
Distinguish which conditions are life-threatening or emergent from those that are less urgent.
Demonstrate the ability to evaluate and initiate treatment of the undifferentiated patient.
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).

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