Fall 2026

Acute Care

Teaches assessment and acute inpatient care for urgent medical conditions, including developing management and transition plans.

offering recorded12 credits

Recorded instructors · Fall 2026 Adam Nicholson Laura Zakowski Marcus Chacon +2 more

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Credits12 credits

Typically offeredFall, Spring, Summer

Subjects

Medical Sciences - Medical School

About this course

Focus on assessing patients with urgent medical conditions, providing acute inpatient care, and transitioning patients to other care settings or home under the care of other professionals. Provide acute care in inpatient and outpatient urgent care settings as well as on the inpatient wards, and develop acute management plans and subsequent transition of care plans. Clinical experiences in acute care settings such as the emergency department and inpatient medicine (both general and subspecialty), psychiatry, and neurology. Builds upon fundamental science concepts introduced in Body in Balance and Mind and Motion, including Ohm's Law, acid-base balance, and volume regulation. Organ system-based approach employing varied modalities. Complete an integrated patient-centered experience by participating in the care of a patient from an urgent admission through inpatient treatment and discharge.

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Professors

Fall 2026

Adam Nicholson

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Laura Zakowski

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Marcus Chacon

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Prabhav Kenkre

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Tabassum Kennedy

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Historical instructors & teaching patterns

ADAM NICHOLSON is recorded teaching in Fall 2021, Fall 2022, Fall 2023, Fall 2024, Fall 2025. Recorded history may be incomplete and does not establish a future schedule.

LAURA JEAN ZAKOWSKI is recorded teaching in Fall 2018, Fall 2020, Fall 2021, Spring 2022, Fall 2022, Spring 2023, Fall 2023, Spring 2024, Fall 2024, Spring 2025, Fall 2025, Spring 2026. Recorded history may be incomplete and does not establish a future schedule.

MARCUS CHACON is recorded teaching in Fall 2021, Fall 2022, Fall 2023, Fall 2024, Fall 2025. Recorded history may be incomplete and does not establish a future schedule.

PRABHAV KENKRE is recorded teaching in Fall 2021, Fall 2022, Fall 2023, Fall 2024, Fall 2025. Recorded history may be incomplete and does not establish a future schedule.

TABASSUM KENNEDY is recorded teaching in Fall 2021, Fall 2022, Fall 2023, Fall 2024, Fall 2025. Recorded history may be incomplete and does not establish a future schedule.

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Calendar & sections

Fall 2026

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Section	Mode	Enrolled / capacity	Waitlist
FLD 021	Classroom Instruction	49 / 65	0
FLD 022	Classroom Instruction	37 / 65	0
FLD 081	Classroom Instruction	0 / 70	0

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Student experience

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Focus on assessing patients with urgent medical conditions, providing acute inpatient care, and transitioning patients to other care settings or home under the care of other professionals. Provide acute care in inpatient and outpatient urgent care settings as well as on the inpatient wards, and develop acute management plans and subsequent transition of care plans. Clinical experiences in acute care settings such as the emergency department and inpatient medicine (both general and subspecialty), psychiatry, and neurology. Builds upon fundamental science concepts introduced in Body in Balance and Mind and Motion, including Ohm's Law, acid-base balance, and volume regulation. Organ system-based approach employing varied modalities. Complete an integrated patient-centered experience by participating in the care of a patient from an urgent admission through inpatient treatment and discharge.

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Topics

Clinical experiences in emergency department, inpatient medicine, psychiatry, and neurology.
Organ system-based approach with varied modalities.

Skills

Assessing patients with urgent medical conditions and providing acute inpatient care.
Developing acute management and transition of care plans.
Participating in integrated patient-centered care from admission to discharge.

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MEDSC-M 812 · Fall 2026

Acute Care

Recorded 2026-09-07

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Model outputs & technical records

nvidia/Qwen3.6-35B-A3B-NVFP4

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