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Medicine and Health Sciences

Virginia Commonwealth University

2017

Medical student

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Nurturing The Student, Sustaining The Mission: International/Inner City/Rural Preceptorship (I2crp) Program, Yeri Park Jan 2017

Nurturing The Student, Sustaining The Mission: International/Inner City/Rural Preceptorship (I2crp) Program, Yeri Park

Health Sciences Education Symposium

Several medical education tracks focused on preparing students to work in medically underserved communities are available in U.S. medical schools to increase awareness of primary care and to enable students to practice in medically underserved areas. The Virginia Commonwealth University School of Medicine’s International/Inner city/Rural Preceptorship Program (originally known as ICRP then changed to I2CRP with introduction of international component in 2012) began in 1998 with the mission of increasing the number of students going into primary care to practice in medically underserved settings in rural, urban and/or international communities. The program requires students to participate in didactics, journal cub …


Salivary Biometrics And Assessment Of Autonomous Nervous System Activation During Emergency And Mascal Training, Michael Czekajlo Jan 2017

Salivary Biometrics And Assessment Of Autonomous Nervous System Activation During Emergency And Mascal Training, Michael Czekajlo

Health Sciences Education Symposium

A 4.5 day full immersion intensive skills week for emergency medicine and surgical training for finishing second year medical students was performed on a 20 acre movie studio. Utilizing hyper-realistic medical emergency scenarios, we simulated all events beginning at the point of injury, continuing to treatment en route, and ending at transition of care to surgical intervention. The trainees staffed an emergency room (ER) and two operating rooms (OR), triaged multiple victims and performed real surgical procedures on role-playing actors wearing the Human Worn Partial Task Surgical Simulator. Saliva was collected before and after scenarios (i.e., multiple victims from an …


Development Of A Calculator For Medical Student Residency Applications, Steven H. Crossman Jan 2017

Development Of A Calculator For Medical Student Residency Applications, Steven H. Crossman

Health Sciences Education Symposium

This poster describes an attempt to create an evidence-based approach to advising medical students with regard to the number of family medicine residency programs to which they need to apply.