Emergency Medicine Acting Internship

This acting internship will focus on the intricacies of caring for patients with acute illness in the Emergency Department, specifically developing skills in becoming expert diagnosticians, master resuscitations, and skilled advocates. Students will assume primary patient care responsibilities, directly reporting to faculty members regarding the care of their patients. They will be provided supervised autonomy to assess, perform medical decision making, and appropriately disposition patients in the ED. The student will review and learn procedures and resuscitative skills necessary for management of the emergently ill and undifferentiated patient. Students will rotated in our adult, pediatric, and urgent care clinical environments. Each acting internship will participate in weekly resident education conferences in addition to acting internship-specific didactics that heavily rely on simulation and hands-on workshops. The student will be required to deliver a presentation focused on evidence-based medicine in the care of one of their patients. Students will also take a final examination. Students participating in this acting internship will be eligible for a Standardized Letter of Evaluation (SLOE) for their residency application.

PREREQUISITE:Completion of Medicine, Surgery, and Ob/Gyn Core Clerkships.

NOTE:Students enrolled in EMMD 4000A cannot also be enrolled in EMMD 4002A.

This is an Acting Internship offered to 4th year students for 4-weeks only.

This Acting Internship fulfills graduation requirements for one of the two required experiences at Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine, but it does not count as one of the primary A.I. experiences. Additional Acting Internships beyond the minimum two will count toward the overall clinical weeks required for graduation.