During this outpatient experience students have the ability to observe variety of echocardiographic techniques with exposure to variety of cardiovascular diseases including valvular disease, cardio-oncology, and congenital patients.
University of Florida Health is an urban-based teaching facility offering an emergency medicine rotation which is designed for the student interested in emergency medicine as a career.
Students will shadow physicians in the emergency department and assist with evaluations, examinations, and procedures as the situation allows. Students will spend time in the Simulation Center with EM faculty, learning and practicing various skills, as scheduled.
Students will encounter pathology ranging from obscure diseases to more common illnesses that present to the Emergency Department. Students will observe the evaluation and treatment of critically ill patients from admission into the Emergency Department to discharge at Mayo Clinic Hospital.
This selective provides hands-on exposure to the field of emergency medicine. Procedures (e.g., endotracheal intubation, vascular access, lumbar punctures, and suturing) will be learned in the simulation center, while a shadowing experience provides patient contact.
In this Selective, students will serve as editors of the Enrichment Newsletter. The Enrichment Newsletter provides the student body with information about current Enrichment opportunities, including Selectives, Global Health, Dual Degrees, etc.
A close look at scientific journals shows that good science and good writing do not often coexist and that easily understood writing is hard to find. Learn about the publications process and about the function and content of each section of a biomedical paper.
Opportunities will work directly with family medicine residents and faculty. They will see patients in the outpatient clinic, the hospital, sports clinic, and possibly in the emergency room or nursing home. Students will see a wide variety of patients of all ages and with all types of medical problems.
Students will experience the family physician’s role in providing continuity care from birth through adulthood in the outpatient setting. Students will observe family medicine faculty in the outpatient clinic and will see a variety of patients of all ages and with all types of medical problems.