title: Implementing a third-year emergency medicine medical student curriculum.
abstract: BACKGROUND
  Emergency medicine (EM) is commonly introduced in the fourth year of medical school because of a perceived need to have more experienced students in the complex and dynamic environment of the emergency department. However, there is no evidence supporting the optimal time or duration for an EM rotation, and a number of institutions offer third-year rotations.
  
  
  OBJECTIVE
  A recently published syllabus provides areas of knowledge, skills, and attitudes that third-year EM rotation directors can use to develop curricula. This article expands on that syllabus by providing a comprehensive curricular guide for the third-year medical student rotation with a focus on implementation.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  Included are consensus-derived learning objectives, discussion of educational methods, considerations for implementation, and information on feedback and evaluation as proposed by the Clerkship Directors in Emergency Medicine Third-Year Curriculum Work Group. External validation results, derived from a survey of third-year rotation directors, are provided in the form of a content validity index for each content area.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  This consensus-derived curricular guide can be used by faculty who are developing or revising a third-year EM medical student rotation and provide guidance for implementing this curriculum at their institution.
authors.affiliation: Department of Emergency Medicine, Medical College of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, Wisconsin.
authors.forename: Matthew C
authors.initials: MC
authors.lastname: Tews
authors.affiliation: Department of Emergency Medicine, Oakland University, William Beaumont School of Medicine, Royal Oak, Michigan.
authors.forename: Collette Marie
authors.initials: CM
authors.lastname: Ditz Wyte
authors.affiliation: Department of Emergency Medicine, Oakland University, William Beaumont School of Medicine, Royal Oak, Michigan.
authors.forename: Marion
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Coltman
authors.affiliation: Department of Emergency Medicine, University of Arizona Health Network, Tucson, Arizona.
authors.forename: Kathy
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Hiller
authors.affiliation: Department of Emergency Medicine, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland.
authors.forename: Julianna
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Jung
authors.affiliation: UCSD Emergency Medicine, University of California, San Diego, San Diego, California.
authors.forename: Leslie C
authors.initials: LC
authors.lastname: Oyama
authors.affiliation: Department of Emergency Medicine, Yale-New Haven Hospital, New Haven, Connecticut.
authors.forename: Karen
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Jubanyik
authors.affiliation: Department of Emergency Medicine, The Ohio State University Medical Center, Columbus, Ohio.
authors.forename: Sorabh
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Khandelwal
authors.affiliation: Department of Emergency Medicine, Naval Medical Center, San Diego, California.
authors.forename: William
authors.initials: W
authors.lastname: Goldenberg
authors.affiliation: Department of Emergency Medicine, Temple University School of Medicine, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
authors.forename: David A
authors.initials: DA
authors.lastname: Wald
authors.affiliation: Department of Emergency Medicine, Mount Sinai Hospital, Chicago Medical School, Chicago, Illinois.
authors.forename: Leslie S
authors.initials: LS
authors.lastname: Zun
authors.affiliation: Department of Emergency Medicine, New Jersey Medical School-University Hospital, Newark, New Jersey.
authors.forename: Shreni
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Zinzuwadia
authors.affiliation: Department of Emergency Medicine, Columbia University, New York, New York.
authors.forename: Kiran
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Pandit
authors.affiliation: Department of Emergency Medicine, SUNY Downstate Medical Center, Brooklyn, New York.
authors.forename: Charlene
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: An
authors.affiliation: Department of Emergency Medicine, Emory University School of Medicine, Atlanta, Georgia.
authors.forename: Douglas S
authors.initials: DS
authors.lastname: Ander
mesh_terms: D002982:Clinical Clerkship / Q000458:organization & administration*; D032921:Consensus; D003479:Curriculum / Q000592:standards; D004504:Education, Medical, Undergraduate / Q000379:methods / Q000458:organization & administration*; D004521:Educational Measurement; D004635:Emergency Medicine / Q000193:education*; D006040:Goals; D006801:Humans; D020380:Needs Assessment; D016730:Program Development
keywords: curriculum; emergency medicine; medical student; third-year