This elective is designed for students who desire an intense experience in the field of Pediatric Emergency Medicine. The clinical time will be divided between the areas of clinical care in the Emergency Department at Children's Hospital Medical Center. The experience will be individually designed to develop the student's skills in physical diagnosis, differential diagnosis and management of acutely ill and injured children. All clinical care will be supervised by the Division of Emergency Medicine attending and fellows. Approximately 70% of the evaluation will be on clinical grounds, and 30% attitude/professionalism. The student will work a combination of 3 shifts: 0800-1600;1300-2100;1600-2400 7 days a week.
Conferences as part of the program include those listed below. You are free to go to all of them. Each monthly schedule will note if there are any changes. In addition the regular noon pediatric resident conferences may be of interest
08:15-11:00 Resident lecture once a month
08:45-11:00 Resident Simulation once a month
10:00-11:00 Medical video review once a month
Fellow conferences--schedule varies, will be provided monthly