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Table 2 Presentations and students’ level of achievement

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

Presentations

% of Students Achieved Recommended Number (Additional file 1)

% of Students Logging Presentation

Average of Patients Per Student

Abdominal pain

93.3

100

8.88

Chest pain

92.0

100

5.26

Respiratory distress

77.3

93.3

3.91

Fever in childa

65.3

72

3.21

Headache

60.0

84

2.23

Trauma (multiple)

58.7

89.3

3.4

Altered mental status

16.0

24

0.51

Poisoning

13.3

41.3

0.57

Gastrointestinal bleeding

8.0

38.7

0.48

Cardiac arrest

8.0

8

0.12

Shock

2.7

25.3

0.28

Other chief complaints

94.7

100

39.44

  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