Medical Students

The student will have the opportunity to work with Emergency medicine faculty and residents. Under their supervision, the student is expected to act as the primary physician for Emergency Department (ED) patients, including initial assessment, performance of minor procedures, interpretation of lab and x-ray, and preparation for admission to inpatient services. The student will also have the opportunity to observe critical resuscitations.

This 4-week elective will introduce students to bedside ultrasound. Bedside ultrasound is best learned at the bedside. Students will learn basics of ultrasound and will perform clinical ultrasounds in the Emergency Departments of UMMC - Fairview, HCMC and Regions Hospital. While individual lectures, individual reading and online instruction will play a role in the learning, the majority of the rotation will be spent in the emergency departments at Fairview, Regions Hospital and Hennepin Healthcare. Bedside teaching will be facilitated by the course directors, Drs. Reardon and Zwank as well as ultrasound fellows, ultrasound technicians, and emergency medicine residents.

This 4-week elective will allow EM-bound students to explore bedside ultrasound through clinical shifts in the emergency department. Students will join ultrasound fellowship-trained attendings for at least 12 clinical shifts, performing ultrasounds on patients in the ED at Hennepin County Medical Center.

This course provides an introduction to Emergency Medicine research. Students will participate in a research project under  supervision of Emergency Medicine clinician-researchers and research teams, ideally resulting in peer review publication. At the end of the rotation, students will be able to describe how to formulate a research question, describe common study designs, study methods, and data analyses used in Emergency Medicine research. Students will actively work with research teams to enroll subjects in research studies and participate in data collection.

This four-week rotation within the Allina Emergency Medical Services is designed to give students first-hand experience in the complex EMS system. Students will observe and in some cases participate in medical direction, audit and review process, emergency preparedness and daily operations of this major urban medical system.

This course offers the student the opportunity to be involved in the initial stages of providing critical care to the patient with serious, sometimes life-threatening medical problems. The student will develop understanding of the application of certain procedural principles of critical care and the fundamentals of Clinical Toxicology. These include drug overdoses, acute alcohol intoxication and withdrawal syndromes, antidotes, toxic inhalations, some environmental toxins, indications for hemoperfusion/ dialysis, street drug problems and principles of pediatric poisonings.

This course is designed for medical students interested in pursuing a career in Emergency Medicine. Students will rotate at either Hennepin Healthcare (HCMC) or Regions Hospital. Both institutions are Level I Trauma Centers and support independent Emergency Medicine residencies.

This course is a 4-week elective designed to teach and reinforce essential emergency medicine topics for a successful emergency medicine intern year. In this course we use a combination of didactics, simulation, workshops including EKG practice, and ultrasound to enhance our knowledge and skills, and prepare for the intern year. Assessment will be based on participation in the course and performance in simulation experiences.