Emergency Medicine (EMERG MED)

Instructor(s): Kevin Hanley, Nancy Anaya

This is a Bridges Curriculum Clinical Immersive Experience (CIEx), which provide medical students in Foundations 2 opportunities to broaden and enhance their professional development in health care settings different from those of their core clerkships. Students rotate in the UCSF and ZSFG emergency departments evaluating and managing patients with undifferentiated complaints. Students practice procedural skills and learn to recognize, resuscitate and stabilize acutely ill patients.

Instructor(s): Tal Ziv

This is a Bridges Curriculum Clinical Immersive Experience (CIEx), which provide medical students in Foundations 2 opportunities to broaden and enhance their professional development in health care settings different from those of their core clerkships. Students participating in the UCSF-Kaiser Longitudinal Integrated clerkship program will participate in an immersive elective in emergency medicine.\r\n

Instructor(s): Jessica Tashjian

This is a Bridges Curriculum Clinical Immersive Experience (CIEx), which provide medical students in Foundations 2 opportunities to broaden and enhance their professional development in health care settings different from those of their core clerkships. Students participating in the UCSF-Kaiser Longitudinal Integrated clerkship program will participate in an immersive elective in emergency medicine.

Instructor(s): Kendra Moore

This is a Bridges Curriculum Clinical Immersive Experience (CIEx), which provide medical students in Foundations 2 opportunities to broaden and enhance their professional development in health care settings different from those of their core clerkships. The Emergency Medicine/Acute Care elective provides PISCES students exposure to patients with acute medical issues. Students spend 10 shifts in the Emergency Department and 5 additional half-days at the Screening and Acute Care Clinic.

Instructor(s): Nana Yaa Misa

This is a Bridges Curriculum Clinical Immersive Experience (CIEx), which provide medical students in Foundations 2 opportunities to broaden and enhance their professional development in health care settings different from those of their core clerkships. This rotation will expose students interested in Emergency Medicine to a high-acuity, fast-paced environment in a county trauma and cardiac arrest receiving center. Students will be supported in performing initial assessments all patients.

Instructor(s): Carolyn Chooljian

This is a Bridges Curriculum Clinical Immersive Experience (CIEx), which provide medical students in Foundations 2 opportunities to broaden and enhance their professional development in health care settings different from those of their core clerkships. Students will spend two weeks on the bedside ultrasound experience in the emergency department focused on emergency medicine indications. The student will work with an R1 emergency medicine resident and supervising faculty.

Instructor(s): Scott Reichelderfer

Students interested in exploring Emergency Medicine in a community/academic center hybrid will be assigned to 2-3 faculty, fellows or chief residents to learn the day-to-day nuances of an emergency physician's workflow. Each student will have opportunities to evaluate undifferentiated patients with a variety of standard complaints (chest pain, abdominal pain, shortness of breath, etc.) and develop treatment plans. Each student will discuss and reason the case through with his/her mentor.

Instructor(s): Kevin Hanley, Nancy Anaya

Students act as interns in the UCSF and ZSFG emergency departments where they evaluate and manage patients with undifferentiated emergencies/urgencies. Students practice procedural skills and learn to recognize, resuscitate, & stabilize critically ill patients. Students work clinical ED shifts in a level 1 trauma center, spend time w/ San Francisco Poison Control, & participate in weekly didactics.

Instructor(s): Aaron Harries

Students participating in this clerkship will act as interns evaluating and managing patients with undifferentiated medical and surgical emergencies and urgencies. Students practice procedural skills, learn to recognize, resuscitate and stabilize seriously ill patients. EM faculty provide direct supervision and bedside teaching. Students work clinical shifts in the ED, attend didactic lectures & participate in other educational endeavors unique to the site as indicated by clerkship director.

Instructor(s): Aaron Harries

Students participating in this clerkship will act as interns evaluating and managing patients with undifferentiated medical and surgical emergencies and urgencies. Students practice procedural skills, learn to recognize, resuscitate and stabilize seriously ill patients. EM faculty provide direct supervision and bedside teaching. Students work clinical shifts in the ED, attend didactic lectures & participate in other educational endeavors unique to the site as indicated by clerkship director.

Instructor(s): Jeremy Lacocque

Students on the Emergency Medical Services (EMS) and Disaster Medicine Elective will be able to learn about pre-hospital care in San Francisco's busy urban EMS system. First-hand experiences with paramedics and dispatchers will teach students about critical patient management in the pre-hospital setting. Didactics will be focused on EMS structure, communication and disaster management topics. The student will be expected to design and complete a mentored EMS project during the rotation.

Instructor(s): Scott Reichelderfer

This course provides an exciting opportunity to do a sub-internship at a busy Level One Trauma & Burn Center, acting as the primary provider for ill and injured patients presenting to the Emergency Department with a wide variety of complaints. Our population includes patients of all ages, many ethnic and cultural backgrounds, and those suffering from problems related to addiction, homelessness, and limited access to care. Students will encounter a wide variety of disease processes.

Instructor(s): Michelle Storkan

The course will cover major topics and practical experiences in wilderness medicine. Part of the course is lecture covering major topics important to wilderness medicine. The remainder is participation in related exercises, including backcountry wilderness medicine improvisation and experiences in search and rescue. Students must be prepared to cover some of the expenses related to backcountry activity, including camping equipment.

Instructor(s): Suman Gupta, Carolyn Chooljian, Brian Chinnock, Stephen Haight

The emergency medicine point of care ultrasound elective will introduce medical students to the fundamentals of bedside, point-of-care ultrasound (POCUS). Students will have the opportunity to perform ultrasounds under the supervision of emergency physicians on scan shifts. Students will also be expected to attend Ultrasound Conference once a week, participate in didactic sessions, and supplement their education through an online course with quizzes. They will become familiar with ultrasounds fo

Instructor(s): Suman Gupta, Brian Chinnock, Stephen Haight, Carolyn Chooljian

The emergency medicine point of care ultrasound elective will introduce medical students to the fundamentals of bedside, point-of-care ultrasound (POCUS). Students will have the opportunity to perform ultrasounds under the supervision of emergency physicians on scan shifts. Students will also be expected to attend Ultrasound Conference once a week, participate in didactic sessions, and supplement their education through an online course with quizzes. They will become familiar with ultrasounds fo

Instructor(s): Nana Yaa Misa

Students will evaluate medical, surgical, gynecologic, and non-critical trauma patients under resident and attending supervision. The rotation also includes dedicated biweekly educational sessions for rotating medical students, attendance at our weekly Wednesday EM residency conference, and participation in our monthly journal club & follow up conference. Students will receive hands-on training in procedures such as suturing, I&Ds, splinting, & ultrasound.

Instructor(s): Caitlin Bailey

This introductory clerkship is a two-week elective that provides a broad overview to emergency medicine. Students will gain experience evaluating and treating the acutely ill patient in a busy county urban emergency department. Students will collect and interpret data, then demonstrate the ability to synthesize a plan through oral case presentation and discussion. This hands on rotation will expose the students to various emergency medicine procedures.

Instructor(s): David Martin, Arun Nagdev

Emergency Ultrasound offers the student an opportunity to integrate bedside ultrasound into their evaluation of the emergency department patient. Along with lectures, students will obtain practice in performing ultrasound exams on emergency department patients who are undergoing diagnostic evaluation. Also, students will get an opportunity to learn and utilize bedside ultrasound for procedural guidance.

Instructor(s): Craig Smollin, Zhanna Livshits

In an interdisciplinary setting, students learn to assess and manage clinical problems associated with the toxic effects of drugs and poisons. Students participate in case discussion of poisonings and drug overdoses and perform follow-up telephone calls on hospitalized patients. The toxicology service also manages patients at the bedside at Zuckerberg San Francisco General hospital, and at UCSF Parnassus and Mission Bay campuses

Instructor(s): Aaron Harries

The goal of this course is to provide the student with a broad experience in emergency medicine clinical research. Students are encouraged to arrange an elective rotation with an EM faculty member to work on a research project of interest to them. The student will receive guidance and feedback on the project and the research process.

Instructor(s): Rachel Chin

This is an elective designed to introduce 1st and 2nd year medical students and nursing students to a range of topics that are commonly encountered in Emergency Medicine. Topics presented will include toxicology, EMS, ultrasound, chest pain, and trauma. Students will also have the opportunity to shadow physicians in the ED at SFGH. This course is problem-oriented and will focus on how to think about the chief complaint.

Instructor(s): Aaron Harries

This full day conference on Urban Disaster Preparedness will teach learners hands-on skills, systems-based approaches, and medical knowledge applicable to providing care during disaster situations. The morning will consist of five lectures from speakers representing Emergency Medicine programs across Northern California. After lunch, participants will split into break-out groups for three hands-on workshops. The day will end with a keynote lecture presented by faculty from SFGH.

Instructor(s): Jahan Fahimi

This course will provide students an in-depth understanding of the multifaceted nature of the United States firearm epidemic and will build the skills for healthcare professionals to engage patients in discussions about firearms. Sessions will address the firearm epidemic from a wide range of disciplinary perspectives including: epidemiology and social context; patient centered care; ethical, legal and policy implications; anatomy and physiology of firearms; and health systems improvement.

Instructor(s): Aaron Harries

Library research and directed reading under supervision of a member of the faculty with the approval of the chairperson of the department.