EM TD3

Facilitating communication of information between a patient in the emergency department, caregivers, and members of the health care team to organize care and disposition of the patient

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Key features: take responsibility in the emergency department for patient care by facilitating the flow and communication of information between the patient, their caregivers, the emergency department health care team and other consulting specialties.
Requires the ability to rapidly establish rapport with a patient, convey compassion, obtain essential diagnostic and contextual information, manage the flow of the encounter in a timely manner, and provide clinical information to appropriate members of the health care team, including an organized, succinct presentation of the patient encounter to a supervisor.

Assessment plan

• Form 1
• using informal multi-source feedback data, faculty should collect 10 observations of achievement by at least 3 sources of information, including nurses, other healthcare professionals, consulting physicians, residents at C - Core of Discipline or TP - Transition to Practice in consulting services, emergency department administrative and support staff, patients, and other families