Emergency Medicine Learning Objectives

ACADEMIC YEAR Spring 2024 to Winter 2025
  1. Manage timely patient evaluation, treatment, reexamination, and disposition
  2. Accurately and completely describe a patient’s past medical history and current social situation.
  3. Develop an appropriate differential diagnosis for a variety of patient presentations.
  4. Give complete, organized, and efficient patient presentations.
  5. Formulate a management plan when prompted.
  6. Demonstrate a caring bedside manner and provide patients and families with clear explanations of the medical workup and treatments provided.
  7. Demonstrate a willingness to help with any aspect of patient care whenever it is needed.
  8. Demonstrate a close working relationship with the nursing and medical assistant staff to understand their role and assist in the care of patients.
  9. Write documentation that is complete with appropriate elements.
  10. Know the indications and contraindications for common emergency medicine procedures.
  11. Perform an IV-line insertion and laceration repair
  12. Demonstrate a nuanced understanding of an ethical issue in medicine by writing a brief essay based on an experience from the clerkship.
  13. Demonstrate engagement in learning by actively participating in educational sessions.
  14. Seek and incorporate feedback on performance throughout the rotation.
  15. Demonstrate emergency medicine-specific knowledge by achieving a passing grade on the NBME subject examination.