ACADEMIC YEAR Spring 2024 to Winter 2025
- Describe the full extent and complexities of a patient’s past medical history and current social situation
- Manage timely patient evaluation, treatment, reexamination, and disposition
- Assess patient understanding about workup and treatment, admission or discharge, and when appropriate, follow up and return precautions
- Develop an appropriate differential diagnosis for a variety of patient presentations
- Simultaneously manage two to three patients who are in the process of evaluation and treatment (i.e., no disposition has yet been determined)
- 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
- Within the development of a broad differential, list possible diagnoses with particularly significant morbidity and mortality
- Discuss the acute evaluation and treatment of a wide range of symptoms and conditions
- Incorporate feedback into daily practice
- Give a complete yet efficient patient presentation to senior residents and faculty
- Demonstrate a caring bedside manner and provide clear explanations of the medical workup and treatments provided
- Demonstrate elements of effective communication in documentation
- Practice the key elements of efficient and productive communication with consultants
- Describe ethical dilemma you encounter during your clerkship and what you learned from it
- Demonstrate willingness to help out with any aspect of patient care whenever it is needed
- 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
- Demonstrate a close working relationship with the nursing and medical assistant staff to understand their role and assist in their care of patients
- Respect the role of the social workers and the complex societal factors that frequently come into play during an emergency department visit
- Demonstrate the ability to communicate with peers through a discussion board about patient conditions while maintaining patient privacy