The Department of Emergency Medicine at the University of Louisville offers an elective rotation to senior medical students interested in learning about Emergency Medicine. You will have 16 shifts in the busy Emergency Department of our urban Level One Trauma Center, divided among night / day, weekend/weekday shifts. You and your fellow students will make your own schedule on the first day of the rotation.

Under the supervision of Emergency Medicine Faculty and senior residents, you will develop your clinical skills by doing the primary assessment of patients presenting to the ED with a wide variety of complaints. You will have the opportunity to do procedures along with the faculty and residents and will assist in trauma and medical resuscitations.

Conferences are held every Wednesday morning in the ED conference room and you are expected to attend. There are also some conferences at this time developed specifically for medical students and interns to provide instruction on the most common chief complaints and workups in Emergency Medicine. Your grade for the rotation will be derived from a combination of evaluations by faculty and residents, as well as a written exam at the end of the rotation. Remember, we don't expect you to be perfect, but we do expect progress, hard work, and a willingness to learn.

For futher info contact:

Course Director: Melissa Platt, MD, Associate Professor, maproc01@hotmail.com
Course Coordinators: Dana Davidson, RN, d0davi03@louisville.edu ;
Bonnie Lakes, bllake01@louisville.edu