For your emergency clerkship, our course objectives are organized to align with Rush Medical College’s program objectives:
- COMMUNICATOR
- Demonstrate focused verbal presentations with accuracy using weighted differential diagnoses.
- Communicate effectively with patients at the bedside, keep patients informed about their ED course, provide support and education to patients.
- Formulate a clear clinical question when speaking with consultants
- MEDICAL KNOWLEDGE
- Demonstrate effective bag-valve-mask ventilation
- List the indications for intubation in the Emergency Department and describe initial steps in managing patient in respiratory distress
- Evaluate an ECG and recognize emergent concerns
- Identify the unstable patient and describe initial management
- Create a management plan for the patient presenting in pulseless arrest
- Identify and create a management plan for patients presenting with unstable cardiac rhythms
- Describe the general approach to the poisoned patient and identify common toxidromes
- List the components of the initial management of the trauma patient
- PRACTITIONER
- Independently collect both focused and comprehensive patient histories
- Independently perform both focused and comprehensive physical exams
- Evaluate and manage ED patients using a prioritized differential diagnosis (for the complaints of chest pain, shortness of breath, abdominal pain, altered mental status and headache)
- Present patients concisely and organized by differential diagnosis
- Perform wound management utilizing varying suturing techniques
- PROFESSIONAL
- Demonstrate the professional behavior expected of an emergency physician
- demonstrate integrity by conscientious behavior, maintain an appropriate appearance & be on time
- complete all requirements on time; attend all required sessions
- Interact professionally with all staff members in the emergency department
- Demonstrate the professional behavior expected of an emergency physician
- SCHOLAR
- Use principles of evidence based medicine to complete a clinical question pertinent to emergency medicine