EM Event Ideas

[dr.wieners]

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Hey guys,

So I am prez for our EM interest group at my school and I am trying to figure out a good event to have this coming fall for our group. Some of us will be attending a national conference in the fall, so I am trying to figure out something different than the typical lecture/skill station setup. I would love to find somewhere that allows some more intensive shadowing experiences, as we have a lot of students who have never set foot in the ER that are interested in EM. Our school doesn't allow us to shadow at our rotation sites so that we don't take away from the medical students already rotating.

Anyone know of any hospital programs out there with shadowing opportunities (or any other ideas)?

We are in SC so location is a consideration too.

Thank you!

 

[scummie]

Well it’s pretty lame they don’t let you do anything in the ED! How is your formal EM rotation set up?

You may want to think about a wilderness medicine or US event. People love going outside and practicing intubating under a picnic table, identifying snakes, applying tourniquets and constructing weird transportation devices. Throw in some toxicology. There’s usually faculty at EM programs that can help with this. We did an EM Olympics which you could tailor to the knowledge level of your group.

 

[CajunMedic]

We did a suture/chest tube/cric/retrograde intubation clinic in the anatomy lab with the surgery club using the donors.

We also did a wilderness med event like described above.

Early on, we had a local helicopter EMS service land on campus and do basically a "show and tell"

 

[LibBum]

Our EM interest group held an ultrasound (FAST/eFAST) and intubation clinic taught by an EM attending/residents in our sim lab. We have a home EM program and an established shadowing program run by EMIG for students to gain experience.

 

[deleted547339]

We did a suture/chest tube/cric/retrograde intubation clinic in the anatomy lab with the surgery club using the donors.

We also did a wilderness med event like described above.

Early on, we had a local helicopter EMS service land on campus and do basically a "show and tell"

Ummmmm.....why?

 

[deleted547339]

Hey guys,

So I am prez for our EM interest group at my school and I am trying to figure out a good event to have this coming fall for our group. Some of us will be attending a national conference in the fall, so I am trying to figure out something different than the typical lecture/skill station setup. I would love to find somewhere that allows some more intensive shadowing experiences, as we have a lot of students who have never set foot in the ER that are interested in EM. Our school doesn't allow us to shadow at our rotation sites so that we don't take away from the medical students already rotating.

Anyone know of any hospital programs out there with shadowing opportunities (or any other ideas)?

We are in SC so location is a consideration too.

Thank you!

1. Anything with beer plays.

2. You need to talk to your school. I’ve had med students come in on Saturday nights overnight when no one else is scheduled as to not detract from students on rotation. These type of folks always get great rec letters. If there’s a will, there’s a way.

 

[CajunMedic]

Ummmmm.....why?

Advisor thought it was an interesting and relatively uncommon procedure. Wasn't the main focus.

 

[dr.wieners]

1. Anything with beer plays.

2. You need to talk to your school. I’ve had med students come in on Saturday nights overnight when no one else is scheduled as to not detract from students on rotation. These type of folks always get great rec letters. If there’s a will, there’s a way.

Great idea, I will definitely run that by them. TY!

 

[dr.wieners]

Well it’s pretty lame they don’t let you do anything in the ED! How is your formal EM rotation set up?

You may want to think about a wilderness medicine or US event. People love going outside and practicing intubating under a picnic table, identifying snakes, applying tourniquets and constructing weird transportation devices. Throw in some toxicology. There’s usually faculty at EM programs that can help with this. We did an EM Olympics which you could tailor to the knowledge level of your group.

We go to a wilderness medicine conference every year that was pretty much exactly as you described, I would definitely like to utilize some of that stuff again at our home event though. What kind of set-up did you have for the EM olympics?

Sorry for the slacker late response, currently in the last couple weeks of cardio block