Clerkships and Acting Internships

In the Department of Emergency Medicine, third-year students are offered the opportunity to explore emergency medicine through a 2-week career exploration. Fourth-year students are offered the opportunity for a junior internship in emergency medicine through a 4-week rotation. Blocks 5-11 are reserved for fourth-year students who plan on applying in emergency medicine. If you have any questions about approval for these courses, please contact Ms. Jennifer Wilson.

Course Offerings

EME-35010
This career exploration course at Methodist University Hospital will allow third year medical students the opportunity to explore emergency medicine as a potential career choice. Students will be expected to display a fund of knowledge consistent with his/her level of training, demonstrate self-directed learning, thoroughness, consistency, and reliability. The student will be treated as a member of the healthcare team and should be ready to participate in H&Ps and assist with procedures at the discretion of the supervising attending.

Course director: Dr. Amanda Addington
Coordinator: Netia Watson

EME-40100
This is a face-to-face clinical rotation that takes place at Methodist University Hospital and Baptist Memorial Hospital. The student will function as a junior intern with increased autonomy in patient care and must demonstrate competency in all of the Entrustable Professional Activities required for graduation. Students rotating in the ED are expected to act at the level of an intern, work in a team-based model, rapidly assess patients to determine if an emergent condition is present, and develop plans to evaluate, treat, and determine disposition for the patient. The student must consider emergent differential diagnoses, and determine which are most likely, using evidence-based methods which themselves are based on history, exam, and laboratory/radiologic values. Each student will be exposed to rapid bedside ultrasound evaluations, as well as take part in numerous emergent procedures such as endotracheal intubation, central line placement, lumbar puncture, fracture reduction, wound care, ventilator management, thoracentesis, and paracentesis. Students are evaluated via daily end of shift assessments, lecture attendance, professionalism, effort, and via final exam. Enrollment is limited to students interested in a career in emergency medicine in May though November.

Course director: Dr. Abigail Cosgrove
Coordinator: Netia Watson