Emergency Medicine Student Interest Group (EMSIG) at the USC Keck School of Medicine
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To be added to the EMSIG email list, email keckemsig@gmail.com |
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Recent and Upcoming Events: |
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2009 Western Regional EM Student Symposium at USC 09/12/09 |
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Information about EMSIG:
The Emergency Medicine Student Interest Group (EMSIG), organized in 1995, has grown to become the largest student interest group at the Keck School of Medicine. Operating within the Department of Emergency Medicine (DEM) at Los Angeles County Hospital (LAC+USC) under the direct guidance of Dr. Sean Henderson, the organization’s adviser and faculty mentor, EMSIG offers medical students hands-on clinical experience, mentorship with residents and faculty members, procedure-based workshops, lunchtime lectures, research opportunities and ambulance ride-alongs.
EMSIG's shadowing program attracts a large number of first- and second-year medical students, allowing them to gain early clinical experience in one of the country’s busiest and most prestigious emergency departments. Owing to the success of this shadowing program is the enthusiasm and zeal for teaching of the attending and resident physicians at LAC+USC. Faculty members from the DEM also give monthly lunchtime lectures to introduce medical students to topics that this past year included blast injuries, toxicology, evaluation of a trauma patient and international EM. They also led workshops in techniques such as suturing and airway management.
The DEM generously offers mentorship through EMSIG in a variety of ways. Early in medical school, students intent on a career in EM may be matched up with a faculty adviser. Those students less sure of a career path may casually interact with upperclassmen, KSOM alumni and faculty at EMSIG's annual spring banquet. Mentors are just as willing to help students navigate their course toward finding a specialty of interest as they are in sharing their own interest in EM.
Regardless of which specialty medical students in EMSIG end up choosing, members of EMSIG credit the interest group in playing an important role in providing clinical experience in an exciting field and in helping them make personal career decisions.
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