COURSE DESCRIPTION:
This elective is offered by the Emergency Medicine Department of SUNY-BROOKLYN and is open to eligible 1st and 2nd year medical students. The elective runs for 6 weeks, each period. It is designed to introduce pre-clinical students to the Emergency Medicine Department and Emergency Medicine as a specialty.
While students will not have a hands-on experience in patient care, they will have the unparalleled opportunity to observe the ongoing management of patients with a wide variety of pathology as well as the many phases of emergency care.
Students who are registered for the course will be expected to spend one evening per week in the clinical area, observing the attending and house staff as they carry out the many duties involved in emergency care. In addition, a series of six lectures will be given-one per week. Each student is also required to give a case presentation on a patient whose care was observed in the ED. Students will be given the opportunity to participate in a suture lab where they will both learn and have hands-on experience.
At the beginning of the course, each student will be given a sign-in sheet, which must be presented to the attending in the clinical area that they are assigned. These sheets are proof of attendance. Students will be assigned a pass/fail grade at the end of the course based upon their participation. At the end of the course students will be given an opportunity to evaluate the course.
LEARNING OBJECTIVES:
By the end of the rotation, students should :
1. Be familiar with the phases of emergency care-from triage to definitive care;
2. Know the basics in wound care and suture techniques;
3. Be able organize a clinical case for written and oral presentation;
4. Be familiar with a variety of pathology and clinical presentations.
PROCEDURE FOR REGISTRATION:
1. Pick up an MS 1,MS 11 ELECTIVE ADD/DROP FORM from the Registrar’s office;
2. Bring the completed form to KCH-Suite CG27A (Kings County Hospital, C-Bldg.
Ground floor) where it will be approved by the course director;
3. An approved form will then be sent to your mailbox, which will include your assigned
day and time;
4. After you have registered for the course, you will be advised about the Orientation
date and time.