Develop procedure skills and broadening their patient contact abilities
Providing some supervision
Teaching in the latter part of the year
Handle all ground EMS medical command as well as trauma alert intubations.
Shifts include the adult and pediatric sides of the ED at UVa.
Evaluation of patients with normal pregnancies as well as those with obstetrical complications and gynecological disease. Includes time in labor and delivery.
Structure research projects and develop their residency-required scholarly activity
Presentation at national conferences is encouraged and supported.
Rotation dedicated to the recognition and management (ED and in patient) of toxicological emergencies.
Rounding on relevant hospitalized patients, responding to toxicological emergencies in the ED and ICU’s, and working with the staff of the Blue Ridge Poison Control Center compromise the bulk of this month.
ICU management of critically ill patients on the surgery services.
A one month rotation in the Emergency Department at Culpeper Regional Hospital, a community hospital located near Charlottesville.
Available electives include community emergency medicine, burn ICU, ENT, neurosurgery, thoracic-cardiovascular surgery, wilderness emergency medicine, accident & emergency department in Edinburgh, Scotland
Please see the Away Rotations section for a complete list of available electives
