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Table 3 Presentations and students’ level of involvement

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

 

Involvement Level

Presentations

Full

N(%)

Partial

N(%)

Observation

N(%)

Abdominal pain

482 (72.4)

99 (14.9)

85 (12.7)

Chest pain

264 (66.8)

74 (18.7)

57 (14.4)

Respiratory distress

209 (71.3)

58 (19.8)

26 (8.8)

Fever in childa

188 (78.0)

35 (14.5)

18 (7.47)

Trauma (multiple)

160 (62.7)

54 (21.2)

41 (16.1)

Headache

115 (68.9)

34 (20.3)

18 (10.8)

Poisoning

26 (60.4)

11 (25.6)

6 (14.0)

Altered mental status

29 (76.3)

4 (10.5)

5 (13.2)

Gastrointestinal bleeding

28 (77.8)

6 (16.7)

2 (5.5)

Shock

17 (80.9)

1 (4.8)

3 (14.3)

Cardiac arrest

9 (100.0)

0 (0.0)

0 (0.0)

Other chief complaints

2000 (67.6)

561 (19.0)

397 (13.4)

  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