Emergency Medicine
403.3 Emergency Medicine
Instructor: Aneesh Narang, M.D. and Annemieke Atema, M.D.
Location: Boston Medical Center, ACC-1, 8:00 am
BMC – Menino Pavilion, Emergency Dept. Conference Room
Telephone: 617 414-4940 email: annarang@bmc.org
Number of Students: 12
Period to be Offered: One month
Description of Elective:
Four weeks are spent working in the Boston Medical Center Emergency Department, a Level 1 trauma center. Students take an active role in the initial evaluation and treatment of patients, work alongside our senior residents, attendings, and nursing staff, and are exposed to wide variety of patients, illnesses, and procedures. For many patients, the ED is the first exposure that they have to the medical system and students will gain valuable experience as they are able to follow patients from presentation, through their workup, and onto their diagnosis and treatment. Field exposure to the pre-hospital care system is given with observation on a Boston EMS ambulance.
Students participate in daily teaching sessions, weekly departmental conferences, as well as a didactic lecture series designed specifically for them. The skills learned are as applicable to those going on to a career in EM, as to those entering other specialties.
BU students may sign up for the elective by completing an Add/Drop Form and bringing it to the office of Nancy Connor (Dowling 1 South, Rm 1408). Please also include your email address, phone number, and beeper number on the form so that we may send you confirmation and information regarding the rotation.
All BU students interested in Blocks 9-16 must speak with Dr. Narang prior to beginning the rotation.
Please note that students must be present for the orientation session on the first day of the rotation, as well as for an IBEX (computer tracking, order entry, documentation) training session on the first Tuesday of the rotation.
We look forward to meeting you.
403.33 Emergency Medicine Research
Instructor: James Feldman, M.D.
Contact: Patty Mitchell, RN, Assistant Research Director
Telephone: 414-4560
Location: Boston Medical Center, Dowling 1
Number of Students: One per month
Period to be Offered: One month
Description of Elective:
This four week elective is for the highly motivated student with an interest in Emergency Medicine. Students will arrange with the course director to assist investigators with various aspects of projects such as project design, data collection, statistical analysis. Students will work closely with the investigator though they may be given tasks to accomplish on their own.
403.34 Combined Emergency Medicine Clinical Research Clerkship
Instructors: Aneesh Narang, M.D., Annemieke Atema, M.D. and James Feldman, M.D.
Location: Boston Medical Center, Dowling 1, Contact: Patty Mitchell, M.D.
Telephone: 617 414-4940 email: annarang@bmc.org
Number of Students: 10
Period to be Offered: Two Months
Description of Elective:
This elective is a combination of the 403.3 Emergency Medicine and the 403.33 Emergency Medicine Research electives. This elective is for the motivated student with an interest in both the clinical and research aspects of emergency medicine. The students will split their time between assigned clinical shifts in the ED and emergency medicine research. Students will be assigned a faculty investigator who will mentor them in the research aspect of this elective. It is expected that students will assist with a number of ongoing studies in the department. In addition, individuals will also have a specific study that will be their primary area of focus.
Highly motivated individuals who wish to design and conduct an independent research project as a medical student, should schedule a meeting with the research director a minimum of 6-12 months prior to scheduled rotation. Subsequent development of the planned project will require intermittent electronic and possible follow-up meetings.
All students are invited to attend any scheduled Research Section meetings including alternate monthly section meeting and research lectures for the EM residents, as well as informal activities including progress reviews, grant development and preparation and meetings within EM and Boston EMS as well as with collaborators from other departments (Cardiology, Radiology etc).
