Away Rotations for Visiting Medical Students
If you are interested in applying to our program for residency, doing an away rotation at our institution is the best way for you to experience the quailty of the training here at Drexel. Our Department can provide you with rotations at Hahnemann University Hospital (the program's primary clinical site) as well as Mercy Hospital of Philadelphia and Mercy Fitzgerald Hospital. In addition there are opportunities for Toxicology Rotations as well as Critical Care. Click here to view our training sites: Drexel EM Residency Training Sites
You can start by visiting the Medical School's instructions for arranging an elective rotation. To visit that site click here: Arranging an Elective Rotation in Drexel EM
Finally, our Director of Medical Student Education is Dr. Mark Saks and out Coordinator is Judy Elsesser. They can be reached via email (click here for Dr. Mark Saks and click here for Judy Elsesser). Alternatively you can call the department during regular business hours Monday through Friday at 215-762-2374.
Drexel Students
First Year
Clinical Skills (81 hours)
Through case seminars, lectures and standardized patients, students learn interviewing and physical examination skills as well as problem solving and basic on-scene first aid. They also learn to apply their knowledge of physiology and anatomy to various states of injury and disease, and to appreciate the sociological implications of medical care. The course offers certification in Basic Life Support. In one component of the course, Introduction to Ambulatory Care, students observe and interview patients in ambulatory settings.
Fourth Year
Pediatric Emergency Medicine
The Department offers a one-month elective in Pediatric Emergency Medicine to fourth-year medical students with an interest in emergency medicine, family medicine or pediatrics. The rotation is based at the Emergency Department of St. Christopher's Hospital for Children, which has an annual census of 50,000 visits, making it one of the nation's busiest pediatric emergency departments. Students are treated as subinterns in that they have the same schedule and patient-care responsibilities as PGY-I level residents. Formal didactic teaching is conducted daily and includes a morning teaching conference, morning radiology conference and noon teaching conference. Bedside teaching and supervision of patient care is provided by pediatric emergency attendings and PGY-III pediatric residents. A pediatric emergency medicine attending and PGY-III pediatric resident are assigned to the emergency department 24 hours a day.
Emergency Medicine
Clinical clerkships in Emergency Medicine are offered through the emergency units at Hahnemann Hospital and Mercy Catholic Medical Center. In addition, a Critical Care Unit elective is offered at Mercy Catholic Medical Center's Mercy Hospital of Philadelphia. All electives are directly supervised by our faculty. Daily conferences are conducted in individual emergency units. Conferences on didactics, morbidity and mortality, trauma and X-ray are held weekly. Emphasis is placed on clinical issues, procedures and the approach to the non-differentiated, critically-ill patient.