Spring 2027

Acute Care

Acute Care focuses on assessing urgent medical conditions, providing acute inpatient care, and planning patient transitions in emergency, inpatient, psychiatry, and neurology settings.

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Recorded instructors · Spring 2027 Laura Zakowski

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Spring 2027
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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.

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SectionModeEnrolled / capacityWaitlist
FLD 021Classroom Instruction0 / 600
FLD 022Classroom Instruction0 / 600
FLD 001Classroom Instruction0 / 400
FLD 002Classroom Instruction0 / 400

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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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  • Emergency department, inpatient medicine, psychiatry, and neurology clinical settings
  • Ohm's Law, acid-base balance, and volume regulation
  • Organ system-based approach

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  • Assessing patients with urgent medical conditions
  • Developing acute management plans and transition of care plans
  • Participating in integrated patient-centered care from urgent admission through discharge

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MEDSC-M 812 · Spring 2027

Acute Care

Recorded 2026-10-14
Raw records 
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Recorded 2026-10-14

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Qwen/Qwen3.8-27B
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