Emergency Medicine (ERMED-MD)

Medical toxicologists care for patients suffering from intentional or inadvertent exposure to pharmaceuticals, drugs of abuse, industrial and hazardous materials, environmental chemicals, plant toxins, and animal venoms.

Most American medical students do not have any exposure to emergency care in the prehospital environment during medical school, yet up to 88% of physicians report being called upon to respond to an emergency outside of the hospital environment. Administering medical care in the field brings a unique set of challenges – safety, limited assessment and intervention tools, and the need for patient transport to an appropriate facility – that many medical trainees have no experience grappling with during their training. Through EMS ride-along shifts, interactive didactic sessions, and interprofessional simulation experiences, this two-week elective will expose students to the challenges of delivering care outside of the controlled hospital setting, offer students a deeper view into specific patient circumstances that impact health, and help students foster strong interprofessional relationships with their allied health colleagues in EMS.

This is an advanced 4-week elective that seeks to build emergency medicine knowledge and experiences. As an advanced elective, students will be expected to serve at the level of an Emergency Medicine sub-intern and will be directly involved in patient care under the close supervision of a senior resident or faculty member. Students will gain a deeper understanding of the core principles, foundational knowledge, and essential skills relevant to the specialty. Students will gain experience evaluating and treating a mix of acute medical and surgical disorders, ranging in acuity from fast-track to critically ill. In addition to the patient care responsibilities, there will be dedicated didactic lectures, ultrasound workshops, SIM sessions and conferences.

This is a 2-week elective that seeks to introduce the student to the field of Emergency Medicine. Students will be expected to gain a broad understanding of the core principles, foundational knowledge, and essential skills relevant to the specialty through encounters with a diverse range of medical and surgical cases, from fast-track to critically ill. Students will gain this experience through a hands-on, problem-based approach to the immediate recognition and treatment of acute disorders spanning the entirety of medicine, surgery, pediatrics, gynecology, and psychiatry. Students will have direct patient care and management responsibility under close supervision by attending faculty. The elective’s comprehensive curriculum includes clinical shifts at three of our emergency care sites.

The emergency ultrasound elective is a four-week elective designed to introduce medical students to the use of point-of-care ultrasound in the NYU Department of Emergency Medicine. Students will receive hands-on training, as well as a variety of didactics to learn the basics of emergency ultrasound. Students will be given required readings and lectures to help develop background knowledge of core and advanced emergency ultrasound applications. Students will attend a weekly four-hour didactic conference with the ultrasound division. Further, they will be given autonomy to practice and develop their ultrasound skills, scanning patients both with real-time supervision and independently. Scans will be saved electronically for later review at weekly Thursday conference.

This is an introductory 2-week elective that seeks to introduce students to the field of point-of-care ultrasound (POCUS) in the NYU Department of Emergency Medicine. Students will receive hands-on training, as well as a variety of didactics to learn the basics of emergency ultrasound. Students will be given required readings and lectures to help develop background knowledge of core and advanced emergency ultrasound applications. Students will attend a weekly four-hour didactic conference with the ultrasound division. Further, they will be given autonomy to practice and develop their ultrasound skills, scanning patients both with real-time supervision and independently. Scans will be saved electronically for later review at weekly Thursday conference.

Medical toxicologists care for patients suffering from intentional or inadvertent exposure to pharmaceuticals, drugs of abuse, industrial and hazardous materials, environmental chemicals, plant toxins, and animal venoms.