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Pediatric Critical Care (PICU) - Jacksonville

PED E 1J | 4th Year Elective | Pediatrics | Clinical Science

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The information for this course is based on the 2009-2010 school year. It has not yet been updated for the 2010-2011 year.

Prerequisites

Completion of 3 years of medical school.

Course Description

Students are required to attend daily AM critical care rounds begining 0700 hrs Mon-Fri; noon conferences; pediatric critical care conferences and weekly pediatric grand rounds.

Course Faculty and Staff:

Course Director(s):Michael Gayle MD
Other FacultyJose Irazuzta MD, Solange Benjamin-Thorpe MD, Virgilio Saldajeno Jr. MD, Frank Genuardi MD, MPH, Pulin Koul MD
Course Staff:Brenda Carver , Eraina Carter

Meeting Place and Time

Students will be assigned to the PICU at Wolfson Children's Hospital; Jacksonville; from 0700-1600 hrs. weekdays and may wish to be involved with residents and physician assistants; for interesting night-time cases.

Course Materials

Students are encouraged to review pediatric critical care material in textbooks such as The Textbook of Pediatric Care-Editor: Rogers et al, the PICU resource folder on The PICU computer and distributed handout material.

Additional Information

The student is encouraged to stay in the PICU until 2300 1-2 evenings during the rotation and one weekend day for 6-8 hours.

Classes Offered:

You are already signed up for this course. You may sign up for a different period in the same course, but be sure to give your request a different priority than any other request for this course. If you're not sure about where this course is in your schedule, go there and see.
Currently, there are no classes configured for this course.

Evaluated Competencies

#1 Professionalism:

Educational Objectives: Student will demonstrate professional behavior in interactions with patients; families; and health care staff.

Method of Evaluation: Preceptor observation

#2 Patient Care:

Educational Objectives: Student will demonstrate ability to obtain and integrate appropriate information regarding critically ill children.

Method of Evaluation: Preceptor observation and review of notes written on patients.

#3 Medical Knowledge:

Educational Objectives: 1. Expose the student to the principles of pediatric critical care. 2. Learn to assess cardiopulmonary instability. 3. Exposure to cardiopulmonary and/or fluid resuscitation. 4. Correlate pathophysiology to clinical situations. 5. Exposure to invasive monitoring and controlled rapid sequence intubation. 6. Understanding of the psychosocial effects of critical illness.

Method of Evaluation: Competency will be evaluated by preceptor observation.

#5 Interpersonal and Communication Skills:

Educational Objectives: Effectively communicate medical information to patients and their families; ancillary medical staff; and fellow physicians

Method of Evaluation: Competency will be evaluated by preceptor observation.

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