EM 251
This is a two-week rotation in LU 6 with 8-9 students in each block handled by the Department of Emergency Medicine. This course provides an exposure to the practice of emergency medicine as a clinical specialty.
In the advent of the pandemic, the rotation will be divided into two:
- Distance education will be utilized in the first semester
- Clinical work in the Emergency Department of the Philippine General Hospital will commence in the second semester
- Next chat time: Monday, 9 September 2024, 10:27 PM
Welcome to the Department of Emergency Medicine.
You can post your concerns and questions here.
MODULE 1: Emergency Medicine and Pre-hospital Care
LET’S BEGIN! Share in UPVLE (MODULE FORUM): Have you ever been a patient in the ED? Or have you ever brought a patient in ED? Describe how you felt and your experience.
READ: Emergency Medicine: A Unique Specialty and Thinking Like an Emergency Physician, Chapter 1, Section 1 and 3 from iEM Education Project Free Book for Emergency Medicine Clerkship 2018.
- Opened: Monday, 31 August 2020, 12:00 AM
MODULE 2: ED Triage Systems and Disaster Preparedness
LET’s BEGIN! Share in UPVLE (MODULE FORUM): Recall your first clinical experience in the ED, how are patient’s prioritized?
- Opened: Monday, 31 August 2020, 12:00 AM
READ: journal “The Principles of Triage in Emergencies and Disasters: A Systematic Review” (as enrichment activity)
MODULE 3: The Primary Survey-Secondary Survey Approach
Question: How different is an approach to emergency patient from an OPD patient? (To be answered during interactive lecture)
Lecture with EM consultant on Triage and Primary Survey-Secondary Survey Approach via Zoom (link to follow).
Read the DEM ECG Lecture Notes for LU VI Students. Worksheet will be given in the 2nd Semester.
DIG DEEPER Share is on UPVLE (MODULE FORUM): Reflect on how decision-making happens in the ED, what are barriers to good decision-making; what important characteristics must emergency care personnel possess?
- Opened: Monday, 31 August 2020, 12:00 AM
MODULE 6: Approach to Trauma
- Opened: Sunday, 1 August 2021, 12:00 AMDue: Thursday, 1 September 2022, 7:03 PM
- Opened: Sunday, 1 August 2021, 12:00 AMDue: Thursday, 1 September 2022, 7:06 PM
- Opened: Tuesday, 19 January 2021, 12:00 AMDue: Wednesday, 30 June 2021, 12:00 AM
For the Second Semester, your group will be assigned to create/produce a video on an assigned procedure commonly performed in the Emergency Department
- Opened: Tuesday, 19 January 2021, 12:00 AM
- Opened: Tuesday, 9 March 2021, 12:00 AM