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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.

Prerequisites

Declared in Medicine program

Satisfies

SURGERY 913 , FAMMED 790 , MEDHIST 740 , FAMMED 937 , FAMMED 938 , MEDICINE 928 , PSYCHIAT 922 , PEDIAT 931 , SURGERY 912 , MEDHIST 742 , FAMMED 933 , DERM 955 , FAMMED 910 , PATH 970 , SURGERY 909 , FAMMED 920 , MEDHIST 741 , CRB 850 , PATH 913 , NEUROL 914 , MDGENET 911 , MEDHIST 746 , RADIOL 920 , RADIOL 912 , UROLOGY 938 , MEDICINE 913 , RADIOL 928 , SURGERY 973 , PATH 914 , OBS&GYN 916 , PATH 921 , FAMMED 941 , RADIOL 911 , RHABMED 910 , UROLOGY 980 , MEDHIST/SURGERY 984 , MEDSC-M 722 , NEURODPT 747 , OBS&GYN 938 , MEDICINE 911 , MEDICINE 927 , MEDICINE 905 , MEDICINE 920 , PSYCHIAT 931 , FAMMED 931 , PSYCHIAT 934 , RHABMED 939 , FAMMED 926 , MEDICINE 938 , PATH 923 , HONCOL 911 , POPHLTH 918 , MM&I 902 , EMERMED 914 , FAMMED 909 , MEDICINE 932 , MEDHIST 750 , RADIOL 913 , FAMMED 924 , MEDICINE 880 , SURGERY 983 , PEDIAT 911 , MEDICINE 924 , MEDHIST 745 , PATH 915 , FAMMED 943 , MEDHIST 744 , MEDSC-M 913 , OPHTHALM 911 , OBS&GYN 909 , SURGERY 975 , SURGERY 911 , EMERMED 940 , FAMMED 927 , PATH 924 , NEUROL 913 , MM&I 911 , MEDSC-M 914 , OBS&GYN 935 , PATH 922 , MEDICINE 972 , CRB 860 , SURGERY 974 , RHABMED 915 , RHABMED 940 , NEUROL 915 , MEDICINE 923 , PATH 960 , PEDIAT 938 , FAMMED 911 , RADIOL 914 , MEDICINE 914 , EMERMED 920 , FAMMED 919 , FAMMED 930 , RHABMED 938 , CRB 810 , SURGERY 976 , MEDSC-M 942 , FAMMED 935 , EMERMED 909 , PATH 962 , PEDIAT 909 , MEDSC-M 912 , PEDIAT 921 , FAMMED 913 , ANESTHES 911 , HONCOL 912 , SURGERY 982 , SURGERY 938 , DERM 904 , OBS&GYN 917 , POPHLTH 917 , UROLOGY 910 , and PATH 916

Credits

Not Reported

Offered

Not Reported

Grade Point Average
Not Reported

No change from Historical

Completion Rate
92.68%

-2.24% from Historical

A Rate
Not Reported

No change from Historical

Class Size
82

29.13% from Historical

Cumulative Grade Distribution

Instructors (2026 Summr)

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