MEL 7259: Emergency Medicine Elective

Emergency Room Faculty at Florida Hospital North Pinellas

Teaching will be done on a one-on-one basis. Students will be assigned to emergency room shifts in such a way that they experience emergency activities during the day, night, and weekends. Preceptors will be emergency room physicians also trained in primary care and family practice. If desired, students may accompany EMTs in ambulances.

In the emergency room, the student will initially assess each patient and propose treatment plans. The student may elect to follow the admitted ER patients throughout their hospital stay. Under the direct preceptor supervision, the student may perform simple procedures. These may include suturing, insertion of the catheters, IVs, injections, and others as appropriate. 

Objectives

1. Develop competence in rapidly assessing ER patients (triage)
2. Learn the initial management of common problems and critical patients
3. Learn effective CPR
4. Recognize complications of medical care and drug side effects
5. Sensitize the student to the emotional impact of major trauma
6. Teach the student how to deal with family members during an emergency medical crisis
7. Inspire in the student empathy, compassion, good judgment, and common sense
8. Perform simple procedures under direct preceptor supervision, as noted above
9. Stimulate the student's interest in primary care and family medicine

Evaluation

• Fund of medical knowledge
• Ability to apply this knowledge, clinical judgment, and common sense
• Enthusiasm, tenacity, professionalism, and idealism
• Student case log and case presentations
• Student's reading about selected emergency patients (selected by student)

Preceptor evaluations

For FHNP: contact Dr. Michael Longley at (727) 943-3699 or (813) 769-7252.