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;1000-1800;1600-2400, may include weekends, total 18 shifts during the rotation.
Conferences, as part of the program, include those listed below. The medical student is 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
08:30-10:30 Resident Simulation once a month (on hold during pandemic due to inability to distance safely)
10:00-11:00 Medical video review once a month
Fellow conferences--schedule varies, will be provided monthly
The medical student is expected to submit one write-up of a patient seen in the Emergency Department. The write should contain history, physical exam, differential, plan, results, disposition. It should also include a reflection section: 1) what you learned from this patient (i.e., disease presentation, differential, thought process in deciding plan, psychosocial components (delivering bad news, calming a distraught parent)); (2) what you contributed to the interaction/patient visit.