This clerkship is designed to provide students with a rigorous patient care experience in the emergency department and the intensive care unit. Students will receive an overview of the fundamental principles and concepts of emergency medicine, focusing on common presenting complaints and procedures in undifferentiated patients. Additionally, students will observe how treatment in the emergency department influences the patient’s subsequent hospitalization. Critical care concepts such as ventilation management, hemodynamic monitoring, pressor management and critical care pharmacology will be discussed. When not working clinically (14 shifts), students will be required to attend at least two of the emergency department’s teaching conferences, complete reading assignments and online didactics, and finish Aquifer cases.

Attendance is required for the first day’s orientation, sim lab, splinting lab and ultrasound lab. Students are required to log in for mid-clerkship evaluation and the final exam (on the final Friday of the rotation). The shift schedule during the rest of the month is flexible and will be developed by the course coordinator at least two weeks before the rotation begins. Please contact the course coordinator with any requests outside the mandatory dates at least two weeks before your rotation begins.

Emergency Medicine Clerkship Curriculum: An Update and Revision (2010)

During this course students will: 

• Experience emergency medicine from the perspective of critical care management to patient resuscitation to staffing critically ill patients with residents and faculty
• Experience the complexities and challenges faced in the ICU
• Develop the skills to evaluate an undifferentiated patient
• Interpret the results of common diagnostic procedures and tests
• Communicate and work effectively in a multidisciplinary treatment team
• Describe the legal and ethical issues pertinent to the care of patients in both emergency medicine and ICU settings
• Develop skills to safeguard patients, self and health care team
• Conduct oneself professionally as a physician

• EMD 800A: Emergency Medicine Research
• EMD 840: Acute Resuscitation in Emergency Medicine Subinternship (AREM)
• EMD 850A: Clinical Toxicology
• EMD 850B: Wilderness Medicine
• EMD 850C: Emergency Ultrasound
• EMD 850D: Pediatric Emergency Medicine
• EMD 880: Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation Instruction

Visiting students who are selected for an enrolled elective will be offered the opportunity to interview with faculty for any of the three emergency medicine residency programs:

• EM Banner – University Campus
• EM Banner – South Campus
• Combined EM & Peds

Students who do not interview during the rotation will not be guaranteed a formal interview during the season.

At this time, three electives accept out-of-state students:

• Emergency Medicine/Critical Care
• Clinical Toxicology
• Acute Resuscitation in Emergency Medicine Subinternship (AREM Sub-I)

No, we only accept students from LCME- or COCA-accredited schools.

No. The first day of the rotation, as well as all clinical shifts, are mandatory. Unfortunately, we are unable to accommodate off-track rotators.

You will be working at both Banner – University Campus and Banner – South Campus. You may need to commute to both locations. Public transportation is available but may be challenging for a night shift.

Our department hosts two categorical emergency medicine residency programs and one combined EM/pediatrics program. Each program has a slightly different interview process. You can interview for any or all of the programs while on your emergency medicine rotation. You must apply through RCAS and interview for each program you wish to be considered for. Please note that each program has its own NRMP identification number that you must select in RCAS and, eventually, in your rank list.

There will be two days allotted to those who wish to interview while rotating here. Students will be made aware of these dates during the rotation. If you have any questions, please email Sonya Martyna-Seaman.

University of Arizona College of Medicine – Tucson students wanting research experience can begin the process by completing online HIPAA and CITI training. Fourth-year medical students who would like to do research for credit can enroll in EMD 800A through Oasis.

Learn more at Emergency Medicine Internal Resources.