Emergency Medicine Learning Objectives

ACADEMIC YEAR Spring 2024 to Winter 2025
  1. Describe the full extent and complexities of a patient’s past medical history and current social situation
  2. Manage timely patient evaluation, treatment, reexamination, and disposition
  3. Assess patient understanding about workup and treatment, admission or discharge, and when appropriate, follow up and return precautions
  4. Develop an appropriate differential diagnosis for a variety of patient presentations
  5. Simultaneously manage two to three patients who are in the process of evaluation and treatment (i.e., no disposition has yet been determined)
  6. Consistently demonstrate an ability to triage their patient involvement in terms of which is more urgent (e.g., discharging a patient v repairing a laceration first) and to describe the reasoning behind their decision
  7. Within the development of a broad differential, list possible diagnoses with particularly significant morbidity and mortality
  8. Discuss the acute evaluation and treatment of a wide range of symptoms and conditions
  9. Incorporate feedback into daily practice
  10. Give a complete yet efficient patient presentation to senior residents and faculty
  11. Demonstrate a caring bedside manner and provide clear explanations of the medical workup and treatments provided
  12. Demonstrate elements of effective communication in documentation
  13. Practice the key elements of efficient and productive communication with consultants
  14. Describe ethical dilemma you encounter during your clerkship and what you learned from it
  15. Demonstrate willingness to help out with any aspect of patient care whenever it is needed
  16. Describe the role of pre-hospital providers, appreciating the challenges of pre-hospital evaluation and treatment, and the key communication elements to handoffs from pre-hospital to hospital providers
  17. Demonstrate a close working relationship with the nursing and medical assistant staff to understand their role and assist in their care of patients
  18. Respect the role of the social workers and the complex societal factors that frequently come into play during an emergency department visit
  19. Demonstrate the ability to communicate with peers through a discussion board about patient conditions while maintaining patient privacy