Teaching Medical Students

Shadowing

Residents can offer to have pre-clinical medical students join them for brief periods of time to observe. This creates informal opportunities for mentorship and bedside teaching. Lead residents organize the shadowing; contact CIM lead resident email at cimldres@ualberta.ca.

Medical Student Medicine Rotation

Junior and Senior residents may work with medical students who are completing their medicine rotations, and have opportunities to provide bedside teaching. Senior (PGY3) residents also participate in teaching these students during their Academic Half Day. We ask that residents refer to the following "Top Ten Topics", and discuss these with the medical students on the team. Teaching others is an important area of medicine, and educating the medical students around you is a great way to start!

The medical student is expected to demonstrate a reasonable approach to the diagnosis and initial management of the following conditions:

• Shock Including hypovolemic, septic, and cardiogenic

• Dyspnea Including heart failure, COPD exacerbation , pulmonary embolism, pneumonia, asthma. This includes basic interpretation of CXR, pulmonary function tests and arterial blood gases.

• Chest Pain Including angina, myocardial infarction, aortic dissection, gastroesophageal reflux , pulmonary embolism, chest wall pain. This includes basic interpretation of ECGs (hypertrophy, myocardial infarction, bundle branch block, arrhythmias).

• Altered level of consciousness Including coma, delirium, syncope, seizure

• Hematemesis Including gastritis, peptic ulcer, Mallory Weiss tear, esophageal varices

• Renal failure Including renal, pre-renal and post-renal causes, acid-base, fluid and electrolyte disturbances, calcium disorders

• Hypertension Including primary and secondary causes

• Anemia Including iron deficiency and chronic disease

• Diabetes Including management of ketoacidosis and hyperosmolar state, awareness of complications and basic management with oral hypo­ glycemic agents and insulin

• Fever Including pneumonia, urinary tract infection, cellulitis, septic joint, meningitis, endocarditis