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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

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

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

Instructors (2025 Fall)

Sorted by ratings from Rate My Professors

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