Study Guide for Emergency Medicine

Emergency Medicine Rotation
Syllabus & Course Objectives

1. COURSE TITLE: EMERGENCY MEDICINE ROTATION
2. COURSE/PREFIX NUMBER: PHA 409
3. CREDIT HOURS: 3

4. CONTACT HOURS: 172 clinical hours

5. COURSE PREREQUISITES/COREQUISITES: Successful completion of Year I of the PA Program.

6. COURSE DESCRIPTION:

   This is a required one-month rotation that takes place in an Emergency Department. The purpose of this rotation is to educate the physician assistant student in the diagnosis, management, and treatment of common emergency, urgent, and non-urgent medical problems that present to the emergency department. If at all possible, this rotation will emphasize conditions and disease entities commonly encountered in the rural primary care setting.

7. COURSE OBJECTIVES:  By the end of the rotation, the student will:
   1. Demonstrate a sensitivity to the emotional, social, and ethnic backgrounds of emergency department patients by effectively interacting with them.
   2. Communicate and perform professionally with other members of the health care team in an emergency medicine setting.
   3. Recognize limitations by seeking help from supervising preceptor and consulting reference materials.
   4. Demonstrate professional demeanor by adherence to dress code, attendance expectations, general behavior guidelines, and response to constructive criticism in the emergency setting.
   5. Make organized oral case presentations to the preceptor that demonstrate appreciation of pertinent medical findings.
   6. Perform and record a problem-oriented age-specific medical interview and physical examination.
   7. Identify normal and abnormal findings in the comprehensive history and physical examination of the emergency patient.
   8. Write problem-oriented medical records in the SOAP format.
   9. Identify, order, and interpret diagnostic procedures appropriate to the emergency setting.
   10. Formulate a problem list and differential diagnosis based upon history, physical examination, and laboratory data.
   11. Formulate and implement a management/treatment plan as approved and supervised by the preceptor.
   12. Perform technical procedures related to the care of the emergency patient.
   13. Provide counseling regarding health promotion and disease prevention appropriate to the emergency patient.
   14. Perform and record a complete medical interview and physical examination.
   15. Identify emergency conditions and disease entities commonly encountered in the rural primary care setting.
8. LECTURE/LAB/CLINICAL SCHEDULE:  Rotations individually assigned.

9. COURSE GUIDELINES AND EXPECTATIONS:

   Policies will be consistent with those published in the Clinical Year Manual and the College Student Handbook. The 7-point grading scale in the College Student Handbook will be used.
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10. METHOD OF EVALUATION:-
     

    Preceptor evaluation	50%
    EOR exam	30%
    EOR quiz	10%
    Pharm Note card	10%
    No oral or written assignments in the spring or summer

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11. TEXTS/REFERENCE MATERIALS – In addition to books required for all rotations:

    • Plantz & Adler (1997). NMS Emergency Medicine. Williams & Wilkins.

    • Stein (1999). Rapid Analysis of Electrocardiograms, 3^rd ed. Williams & Wilkins.
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12. DATE OF SYLLABUS APPROVAL/REVIEW/REVISION: May 31, 2005.