The USF Department of Emergency Medicine proudly offers an Acting Internship for fourth year students interested in Emergency Medicine. If you are interested in helping fourth year students transition into becoming emergency medicine residents, then the fourth year AI is an excellent place to get involved! In this post, Dr. Jordan Beau, Clerkship Director for the fourth year AI provides an annual update.
Overview
The USF Department of Emergency Medicine currently offers a four-week acting internship in Emergency Medicine which allows students from all over the country to come and showcase their skills here at USF. The core of the rotation includes 10-12 shifts in the adult emergency department at Tampa General Hospital (TGH) and 1-2 shifts in the pediatric emergency department at TGH. These shifts allow our faculty and current residents to evaluate students to see if they would be a “good fit” here at USF both clinically and from a personality standpoint. The rotation has traditionally ended with an end-of-rotation case presentation on an interesting emergency medicine case that the students have had during their month. If you have interesting case with a student, that’s always a good time to remind them that it could be used for their case presentation!
We currently take 6-8 students each month and by the end of the month we are able to provide them with a standardized letter of evaluation (SLOE) which allows them to build their applications for emergency medicine residency match.
New Additions
Over the past year we have added some new additions to the rotation that have been well received! We currently are providing a suture clinic that takes place on their orientation day that gets the students ready to provide laceration repair in the department. Currently, Dr. Jordan Beau and Dr. Michael Simoes (PGY-3 MS4 Clerkship lead) are providing hands on basic and advance suturing technique education to the students so don’t hesitate to get them involved on shift! In addition to our suture clinic, our simulation team has continued this year doing medical student simulation cases once a month for the acting internship. The funding has been graciously provided by Dr. Yasuharu Okuda and the cases have been organized and run this year by Dr. Amanda Priddy (Simulation Fellow) and Dr. Normaliz Rodriguez. We are very grateful to be able to offer our simulation training to the students during their months here at USF!
Medical students and residents participating in Wilderness Medicine Day.
Medical student participating in Airway Day.
Other Opportunities
Entrustable Professional Activities Course (EPA Course)
The USF College of Medicine curriculum for the fourth-year students also includes a two-week EPA course which is a course designed to provide education on the skills needed to transition to residency specifically for Emergency Medicine. Dr. Jordan Beau is the EPA course director, and the course involves many of our very own core faculty who graciously provided their expertise and lectures to the USF students. Special thanks to Dr. Andrew Thomas who originally created the course and continues to provide excellent lectures that the students really enjoy. Additional special thanks to many of our core faculty who provided their time to educate our USF fourth year students. Honorable mentions include the admin team and residency leadership Dr. David Wein and Dr. Enola Okonkwo, our sports medicine division Dr. John Kiel and Dr. Diego Riveros, our toxicology team Dr. Diana Dean and Dr. Justin Arnold, our Ultrasound Division Dr. Allyson Hansen and Dr. Lorena Martinez, and finally our pediatric division Dr. Jasmine Patterson. If this type of work interests you, please reach out to Dr. Jordan Beau to see if there is some opportunity to get involved! This is also for residents as well. Last year, Dr. Daniel Wind was involved in the initial curriculum development of a mini-series of lectures titled “EM Basic Chief Complaint Series”. This was an opportunity to give the students a framework on how to evaluate and workup some of the most common chief complaints we see in the emergency department, and it was very well received by the students. This year the curriculum has expanded to involve Dr. Michael Simoes providing lectures as well. We are very proud of their efforts with the development of this curriculum. Please reach out if you are a resident who would like to get involved in the course.