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Expectations of an Emergency Medicine Clerkship Director.
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PMID:  21521403     Owner:  NLM     Status:  Publisher    
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ACADEMIC EMERGENCY MEDICINE 2011; 18:1-6 © 2011 by the Society for Academic Emergency Medicine ABSTRACT: The clerkship director (CD) serves as a faculty leader within a school of medicine and plays a vital role in the hierarchy of undergraduate medical education. Collectively, CDs across specialties serve a multitude of roles and are responsible for clerkship administration, curricular development, teaching, mentoring, and advising students. The emergency medicine (EM) CD has a vitally important role to play in the future development of medical students. EM CDs should be valued and supported, because they often represent our specialty within the medical school and play a vital role in training the physicians of tomorrow. Opportunities and resources must be made available to CDs to run and maintain a successful EM clerkship, while also balancing their clinical duties and academic endeavors. In addition, EM CDs need support from their respective medical schools and departments to run highly successful medical student rotations. This article was prepared with the objective of establishing the importance of the EM CD, defining the job description of the CD, explaining the importance of adequate release time to perform the role of the CD, and describing the necessary resources and support for the position. With EM becoming an increasingly popular and integral rotation for medical students, it is likely that additional emphasis will be placed on the role of the EM CD. This reference document serves as a template for the job description and expectations of an EM CD.
Authors:
Robert L Rogers; David A Wald; Michelle Lin; Leslie S Zun; Theodore Christopher; David E Manthey
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Publication Detail:
Type:  JOURNAL ARTICLE     Date:  2011-4-26
Journal Detail:
Title:  Academic emergency medicine : official journal of the Society for Academic Emergency Medicine     Volume:  -     ISSN:  1553-2712     ISO Abbreviation:  -     Publication Date:  2011 Apr 
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Created Date:  2011-4-27     Completed Date:  -     Revised Date:  -    
Medline Journal Info:
Nlm Unique ID:  9418450     Medline TA:  Acad Emerg Med     Country:  -    
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Languages:  ENG     Pagination:  -     Citation Subset:  -    
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© 2011 by the Society for Academic Emergency Medicine.
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From the Department of Emergency Medicine, The University of Maryland School of Medicine (RLR), Baltimore, MD; the Department of Emergency Medicine, Temple University School of Medicine (DAW), Philadelphia, PA; the Department of Emergency Medicine, San Francisco General Hospital (ML), San Francisco, CA; the Department of Emergency Medicine, Finch University/Chicago Medical School (LSZ), Chicago, IL; the Department of Emergency Medicine, Jefferson Medical College (TC), Philadelphia, PA; and the Department of Emergency Medicine, Wake Forest University School of Medicine (DEM), Winston-Salem, NC.
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