Integrated Critical Care Curriculum for the Third-Year Internal Medicine Clerkship.

ABSTRACT:

Introduction

A majority of residents provide care for critically ill patients, yet only a minority of medical schools require ICU rotations. Therefore, many medical students enter residency without prior ICU experience. The third-year internal medicine (IM) clerkship at our institution's Veterans Affairs Medical Center (VAMC) provided an opportunity for medical students to rotate through an open ICU as part of their inpatient ward rotation. Prior to March 2019, no structured critical care curriculum existed within the IM clerkship to prepare students for this experience.

Methods

We created a seven-session ICU curriculum integrated within the VAMC IM clerkship addressing core critical care topics and skills including bedside presentations, shock, and respiratory failure. IM r

SUBMITTER: Gergen D 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7727608 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature