Emergency Bootcamp

EM 590M.1 Subject & Catalog Number

Description

Emergency Medicine Bootcamp is an interactive, high-yield advanced skills course designed to optimize the effectiveness of graduating HMS students to manage medical/surgical emergencies as incoming interns. The course will include simulation, skills sessions and didactic lessons designed to provide rising interns with a review of critical diagnoses, procedural skills and teamwork strategies essential to working in an Emergency Department (ED) or while on call. Lectures will be structured around emergent clinical presentations and management. This will provide insight into the potential difficulties of resident life and overall functions and expectations of an intern. Simulation sessions will focus on critical EM presentations allowing students exposure to effectively manage critically ill patients in a safe environment. Procedural skills workshops will provide hands-on experience of suturing, central venous access, lumbar puncture, intubation, thoracostomy, procedural ultrasound and splinting. Upon completion of this course, students will be prepared for the clinical and social expectations of incoming practioners.