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
  • SCHOLAR
    • Use principles of evidence based medicine to complete a clinical question pertinent to emergency medicine