Curriculum
Faculty Mentor: D. Gordon MD
Objectives
• To develop skills in teaching, evaluating, and mentoring medical students
• To develop skills in lecture preparation and presentation
• To gain proficiency in student evaluation and preparation of letters of recommendation
• To obtain experience in being a medical student clerkship director
Duration: 2 ½ yr track
General Requirements:
PGY1:
• Attend at least 2 medical student lectures
• Completion of reading materials (binder provided)
PGY2:
• Deliver at least 2 medical student lectures
• Participate in at least one Emergency Medicine Interest Group (EMIG)
• Assist clerkship director during at least month in student evaluations
• Begin development of personal project
PGY3:
• Mentor 4 th year medical students applying to emergency medicine
• Advisor for EMIG
• Participate in writing letters of recommendation
• Deliver at least 2 medical student lectures
• Present core content lecture using non-traditional format
• One month as Acting Clerkship Director
• Orientation
• Administration (scheduling conflicts, lecture assignments)
• Teaching Shifts
• Mid-term feedback
• Final evaluations
• Completion of personal project
• Encouraged to attend national meeting like CORD academic assembly in Feb/March (medical student educators' track) or a Clerkship Directors of Emergency Medicine meeting at SAEM or ACEP.
Additional Opportunities: Assist in the development and leadership of Clinical Skills Lab for Duke Medical School
Appendix: Personal Project
• Curriculum Design - Teaching Module
• Didactic Lectures
• i. Chest Pain
• ii. Abdominal Pain
• iii. Trauma
• iv. Toxicology
• Clinical Skills Lab
• i. Suture
• ii. Splinting
• iii. Ultrasound
• iv. EKG
• v. Emergency Radiography
• vi. Patient Simulation
• Feedback and Evaluation
• Yellow Cards
• Mid-term feedback
• Final Evaluation
• Final Quiz
• Bedside Teaching
• Teaching guide for faculty and residents
• Teaching binder for use in ED
• i. Core content articles
• ii. Visual Diagnosis