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Table 1 Presentations and their percentage out of the total patients logged

From: Do senior medical students meet recommended emergency medicine curricula requirements?

Presentations

Number of Patients Logged (%)

Abdominal pain

666 (13.0%)

Chest pain

395 (7.7%)

Respiratory distress

293 (5.7%)

Trauma (multiple)

255 (5.0%)

Fever in childa

241 (4.7%)

Headache

167 (3.3%)

Poisoning

43 (0.8%)

Altered mental status

38 (0.7%)

Gastrointestinal bleeding

36 (0.7%)

Shock

21 (0.4%)

Cardiac arrest

9 (0.2%)

Other chief complaints

2958 (57.8%)

  1. The presentation list was adopted from CDEM curriculum. aThis topic was added by local EM core faculty group. The category of other chief complaints includes presentations not included in the list