Medical Students

All students must report on the first day of their rotation at the RAH CICU, 1st Floor Robbins Pavilion at 7:30 a.m. 

Please note that medical students do not get card access to the CICU. You will need to use the buzzer to enter the CICU area at all times - staff are happy to let students in.

• Cardiologist

• 1-3 Senior Residents

• 4-6 Junior Residents

• CICU Nursing Staff

• Pharmacist

• 1-2 Medical Students

• Assess and present CICU patient cases as deemed appropriate by Senior Residents

• Participate in ER and ward consultations

• Follow patients that the student has assessed through the patient's investigations and interventions, thereby getting exposure to the cardiac cath lab, echo lab, EST and MIBI labs.

• Depending on other concomitant resident rotations, the student may have an opportunity to observe pacemaker and ICD implantations in the OR.

Gain relevant competencies as described in the Overarching Objectives for Clinical clerkship with particular attention to the following:

• Develop a fairly comprehensive, systematic approach to the cardiovascular assessment

• Learn to derive a relevant case based limited differential diagnosis

• Gain a working knowledge of diagnosis and management of common cardiovascular conditions in the acute and sub‐acute setting:

  • Diagnosis and management of hypertension

  • Approach to chest pain

  • Approach to dyspnea

  • Acute Coronary syndrome: unstable angina, NSTEMI, STEMI

  • Congestive Heart failure: acute & chronic LV dysfunction, valve disease, arrhythmias

  • Arrhythmias‐atrial fibrillation, AVNRT, AVRT, 1st, 2nd and 3rd degree heart block, asystole, ventricular tachycardia and ventricular fibrillation

  • Pericardial effusion and tamponade