Elective Information – Emergency Medicine and Critical Care at MaineHealth Pen Bay Hospital

Pre-requisite: Emergency medicine residents who have completed their PGY 2 year.

Duration for Elective: 4 weeks

Rotation Directors: Stephen Skinner, MD; Victoria Hoch, MD

Educational Objective

To provide the senior emergency medicine resident with experience in a rural/community ICU and emergency department.

Experiences and Procedures

Emergency medicine experiences:

Evaluate and manage undifferentiated patients in a community emergency department

Evaluate and manage critically ill and injured patients in a community setting with limited on-site specialty resources

Participate in the stabilization and transfer of patients requiring tertiary care

Perform emergency procedures as required by patients in the department

Develop efficiency managing a variety of emergency department patients in a community setting

Critical care experiences:

Evaluate and manage critically ill medical and surgical patients in a community ICU in a 24 hour call schedule

Participate in daily multidisciplinary ICU rounds

Perform ICU procedures as required by patients in the ICU

Participate in tele-consultation and support of critical access hospitals caring for critically ill patients

Participate in the decision and transfer considerations of patients requiring escalation of care to a tertiary center

Housing

Depending on the season, this rotation may have housing available at no cost to the learner. When housing is not available through the rotation, residents may be reimbursed for housing expenses by the MERGE Collaborative. See the MERGE Housing Reimbursement Policy for more information.