About the BIDMC HAEMR Virtual Experience
The Harvard Affiliated Emergency Medicine Residency at BIDMC's virtual medical student experience will be a comprehensive overview of our residency since most clerkships and student rotations are on hold temporarily. The COVID-19 pandemic has changed many things in medical education, including limits on how students interested in emergency medicine engage in away rotations. We hope this virtual experience will help you get to know our residency program under these unique circumstances, and we encourage interested students to apply with us in the fall. We will also provide interested medical students with opportunities for clinical education and career mentorship that they might not have during the 2020-2021 application cycle.
This one-week virtual experience will take place on Zoom three times this summer, during the weeks of July 13-17, August 3-7 and September 14-18. Each week will include one hour per day of clinical didactics and one hour per day of dedicated mentorship by our educational faculty. Participants will also be invited to our Wednesday morning residency didactics and, when available, to our journal club on Tuesday evenings. Download BIDMC’s HAEMR virtual student experience flyer.
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Sample Schedule
Monday
4:00 - 5:00 pm: Mentoring Talk: Welcome, Introduction to Residency, Applying to Residency
5:00 - 6:00 pm: Clinical Lecture
Tuesday
4:00 - 5:00 pm: Mentoring Talk: EM as a Specialty
5:00 - 6:00 pm: Clinical Lecture
6:00 - 8:00 pm: Journal Club
Wednesday
9:00 am - 12:15 pm: Residency Conference
4:00 - 5:00 pm: Meeting with the Residents, Virtual Tour
5:00 - 6:00 pm: Clinical Lecture
Thursday
4:00 - 5:00 pm: Mentoring Panel: residency + education faculty
5:00 - 6:00 pm: Clinical Lecture
Friday
4:00 - 5:00 pm: Mentoring Talks: Individual mentorship sessions with residency and/or education faculty
5:00 - 6:00 pm: Clinical Lecture
Clinical topics include:
- Approach to undifferentiated shock
- Approach to chest pain and EKG interpretation
- Cultural competency and healthcare disparities
- Emergency critical care and resuscitation
- Approach to the trauma patient
- Approach to neurological emergencies
Please note that all times except for residency conference and journal club are flexible. We will plan on meeting in the late afternoon to accommodate those students who are on other rotations; however, the precise times will vary per week based on participants’ schedules.
There will also be an opportunity to make individual appointments with Education and Residency Faculty for individual mentoring sessions.
One of our residents tells why she chose the Harvard Affiliated Emergency Residency at BIDMC.