PA 572 Emergency Medicine Clerkship
This five-week clerkship allows students to demonstrate knowledge, clinical examination techniques, and other learned competencies in the emergency medicine setting. Students correlate pathophysiology, clinical signs and symptoms, and diagnostic studies to make assessments and formulate treatment plans. The rotation covers patients throughout the continuum of life. Activities include patient examination, pharmacotherapeutics, other treatment modalities, follow-up evaluation, case presentation and documentation. Conditions include cardiac, respiratory, trauma, and other life-threatening conditions. Procedures include reduction techniques, suturing, aspirations, IV placements, splinting, and minor surgical procedures. The student works closely with a preceptor and interacts with members of the surgical and medical teams. The student learns when and how to make proper referrals, interpret laboratory and radiological studies, formulate treatment plans, discharge, refer, and admit patients. Students work under a licensed clinical preceptor's supervision and undergo an end of rotation evaluation. Hours: Students are expected to keep hours no less than that of their preceptor, up to 80 hours per week. This may include evenings, weekends, holidays, and rotating shifts.