The Fourth Year Elective in Emergency Medicine is an intense 4-week course created to give a sub-internship experience that reflects the breadth of the knowledge, activities, and responsibilities of a resident in Emergency Medicine. This clerkship is offered to all 4th year medical students at Weill Cornell Medical College and Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons, as well as visiting students from outside institutions who are seriously considering a career in Emergency Medicine.

The course is modeled after the NewYork-Presbyterian Emergency Medicine Residency Program. NewYork-Presbyterian/Columbia (168th Street) and NewYork-Presbyterian/Weill Cornell (E. 68th Street) serve as the sites for this rotation. Time spent at both locations will expose the student to a diverse patient population and wide variety of disease and injury. Our modern, high volume, and high acuity Emergency Departments will serve as the classroom for one of the most hands-on and educational rotations you will have during your medical school careers.

The 4-week clerkship includes 16, twelve-hour shifts that are divided between NewYork-Presbyterian/Columbia and NewYork-Presbyterian/Weill Cornell. During this clerkship, you will spend time in the Adult Emergency Departments at both facilities, the NewYork-Presbyterian/Columbia Pediatric Emergency Department, and the NewYork-Presbyterian/Weill Cornell Urgent Care Center. In addition, one of your shifts will be spent with NewYork-Presbyterian EMS riding in an ambulance along with either an EMT or paramedic team.

There is also a substantial didactic component to this clerckship. Students will attend a series of 20 lectures that will provide an overview of important emergency medicine topics. Example topics include introduction to trauma, emergency medicine ultrasound, and disaster medicine. Students will participate in hands-on suturing and splinting workshops. In addition, students will attend the 4-hour weekly departmental conferences and the daily morning report lectures.


Course Directors

Doodnauth Hiraman, MD, doh2009@med.cornell.edu
Rahul Sharma, MD
Veronica Hlibczuk, MD
Richard Trepp, MD

Senior Resident Coordinators

Elizabeth Gomes, MD
Jonathan St. George, MD

Course Administrator

Anne Hoffman, (212) 746-0801, anh9015@nyp.org
Please contact Anne Hoffman for additional information.

To Apply

Please see the Columbia P&S VSAS application at the following site: http://ps.cpmc.columbia.edu/students/visiting.html