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Expansion of emergency medicine's responsibilities for preclinical education of medical students
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Expansion of emergency medicine's responsibilities for preclinical education of medical students

William P Burdick and Steven J Davidson
Annals of emergency medicine, v 14(2), pp 131-133
1985
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/S0196-0644(85)81074-X
PMID: 3970398
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Abstract

education, medical school, emergency medicine
Many medical schools have required emergency medicine courses for freshmen medical students, usually through participation in BLS (basic life support) or EMT activities. For several years students at our institution have participated in a required emergency medical technician-ambulance grade (EMT-A) course. While retaining much of the material presented in that original EMT-A course, the course has now been expanded to serve as the medical students' introduction to clinical medicine. This expansion resulted from the belief that emergency medicine provides initial patient contact in the presence of a faculty uniquely suited to introduce the broad domain of clinical medicine to the medical student. Emergency physicians, more than any other specialists, must possess the ability to obtain an incisive history promptly, perform an accurate physical examination, and arrive at an assessment with limited laboratory and radiologic data. Initial access to the clinical education of medical students provides the opportunity to direct their efforts in a prioritized fashion, and thus helps to organize their thought processes for further development as clinicians. Departments of emergency medicine should be willing to accept this incremental responsiblity for the introduction of the medical student to the clinical and laboratory assessment of patients.

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