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ACUTE CARE

MEDSC-M 812
Course Description

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.

Prerequisties

Declared in Medicine program

Satisfies

MEDSC-M 942 , FAMMED 911 , SURGERY 911 , SURGERY 982 , MEDHIST 740 , SURGERY 912 , FAMMED 930 , PATH 915 , RADIOL 911 , MDGENET 911 , MEDICINE 905 , FAMMED 941 , SURGERY 913 , PATH 962 , MEDICINE 924 , EMERMED 909 , OBS&GYN 917 , FAMMED 910 , NEURODPT 747 , MEDSC-M 912 , DERM 904 , SURGERY 974 , BMI 901 , OBS&GYN 909 , FAMMED 938 , PATH 924 , MEDICINE 927 , MEDHIST 745 , MEDICINE 923 , NEUROL 913 , UROLOGY 938 , PSYCHIAT 922 , RADIOL 914 , SURGERY 983 , FAMMED 926 , MEDICINE 938 , PATH 913 , DERM 955 , MEDICINE 928 , HONCOL 912 , FAMMED 940 , MEDHIST/SURGERY 984 , MEDSC-M 722 , CRB 850 , HONCOL 911 , FAMMED 943 , SURGERY 980 , RADIOL 912 , MEDHIST 744 , FAMMED 935 , MEDICINE 911 , FAMMED 927 , MEDHIST 742 , FAMMED 920 , OBS&GYN 935 , FAMMED 919 , MEDHIST 750 , EMERMED 914 , PSYCHIAT 934 , RADIOL 928 , OBS&GYN 916 , FAMMED 937 , PATH 922 , PATH 960 , PEDIAT 921 , POPHLTH 917 , POPHLTH 918 , FAMMED 931 , FAMMED 790 , PATH 914 , MEDICINE 932 , EMERMED 920 , OPHTHALM 911 , MEDICINE 914 , PATH 921 , CRB 810 , SURGERY 973 , MEDSC-M 913 , PATH 923 , FAMMED 924 , MEDHIST 746 , EMERMED 940 , PEDIAT 938 , SURGERY 975 , RADIOL 920 , SURGERY 909 , CRB 860 , MEDICINE 972 , OBS&GYN 938 , MEDICINE 920 , SURGERY 938 , FAMMED 933 , ANESTHES 911 , MEDHIST 741 , SURGERY 976 , PATH 916 , UROLOGY 910 , MM&I 902 , MEDSC-M 914 , PATH 970 , FAMMED 909 , NEUROL 914 , MEDICINE 880 , MEDSC-M 909 , MEDICINE 913 , PSYCHIAT 931 , PEDIAT 909 , and MM&I 911

Credits

12

Offered

Fall, Spring, Summer

Grade Point Average
Not Reported

No change from Historical

Completion Rate
95.35%

0.24% from Historical

A Rate
Not Reported

No change from Historical

Class Size
86

39.96% from Historical

2025 Fall Grade Distribution

Instructors (2025 Fall)

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