PA 572 Emergency Medicine Clerkship
This five-week rotation allows students to demonstrate knowledge, clinical examination techniques, and other learned competencies in the urgent and emergent settings. Students correlate pathophysiology, clinical signs and symptoms and diagnostic studies to make assessments and formulate treatment plans. The rotation covers patients along 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 also interacts with members of the surgical and medicine 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 the supervision of a licensed clinical preceptor and undergo an end of rotation evaluation.