Emergency Medicine: Diversity in Discipline, Professions, and Patient Population: Pre- and Post- Course Surveys

The course "Emergency Medicine: Diversity in Discipline, Professions, and Patient Populations" provides rising second year medical students with early exposure to the specialty of Emergency Medicine and fosters conversations regarding healthcare disparities in medicine and ways to address them. After an immersion in the specialty, students help to create content for and lead a week-long program for high school and/or college students. The purpose of the surveys is to assess the students' perceptions of there knowledge in areas of patient care, procedural skills, ultrasound, and healthcare disparities before and after the course.