MDR 839: CCS: Medical Intensive Care Unit

The Critical care selective is mandatory for Phase 3 students who have successfully completed their clerkships. The purpose of this selective is to provide the student a robust exposure of critical care concepts, aligned with their career of choice. This selective focuses on developing skills to recognize early signs of a critically ill patient who would benefit from specialized intensive care and to implement interventions to stabilize a patient during the initial critical phase of their illness. The course will build on core physiological concepts students were introduced to previously. There will be unique opportunities to implement these concepts in real-time in the care of their critically ill patient, allowing them to directly observe changes in the patient’s clinical status related to their intervention.