Rotating Medical Students
The West Virginia University Department of Emergency Medicine offers electives to medical students in the 4th year. Rotations can be 4 weeks or one month long. During your rotation you will work closely with both faculty and upper level emergency medicine residents. The majority of your shifts will be spent at our level 1 trauma center, Ruby Memorial Hospital. You will also spend 1-2 shifts at our offsite state of the art Urgent Care and have the option to schedule a day of ambulance ride alongs.
Students will receive a didactic schedule on the first day of the rotation. Some didactics will be attended along side the residents, like Grand Rounds, Morbidity and Mortality, and Journal Club. There also case based lectures that are just for medical students. Most months there is also the opportunity to spend time in our simulation center.
Final grades are based on daily evaluation forms filled out at the end of each shift.
Monthly Schedule
Students are given parameters on the first day of the month to make their own schedule with other students working in the department that month. Students work 8 hour shifts and will do shifts in the day, the evening, and overnight. Students are asked to work 2 weekend shifts throughout the month.
About Us
About Us In Morgantown, all of our health services are operated by WVU Healthcare. On this campus, our primary teaching facilities include Ruby Memorial Hospital, West Virginia University Children's Hospital, the Jon Michael Moore Trauma Center, and the Physician Office Center. West Virginia University Hospitals is the only hospital in the State to receive Magnet Status by the American Nursing Association, and is one of less than a dozen academic medical centers to do so. In addition, it has been recognized as a top 100 hospital.
Ruby Memorial Hospital (WVU) is a university hospital with 522 inpatient beds. Students rotating at WVU Emergency Medicine program work mainly at the Ruby Memorial Hospital Emergency Department, known as the Jon Michael Moore Trauma Center. As a Level 1 Trauma Center with an emergency air transportation system called HealthNet, the ED sees an annual patient volume of 40,000 per year. The pediatric population accounts for 28% of the patient volume each year. The trauma patients accounts for 24% of the ED visits. Approximately 23% of the ED visits are admitted to the hospital, and ICU admissions account for about 5%.
Links
www.cdemcurriculum.org
Outstanding website for medical students! Provides a summary of several medical conditions that you may encounter while working in the emergency department. It also has cases you can work through. There is a forum for medical students across the country.
http://www.saem.org/saemdnn/Home/Communities/MedicalStudents/tabid/62/Default.aspx
This site provides a catalogue of available Emergency Medicine residency and clerkships. It also has information on the process of applying to an Emergency Medicine residency.
http://www.emra.org/default.aspx?type=student
Emergency Medicine Resident Association, student section
www.acep.org
Site for the American College of Emergency Physicians