Emergency
         Medicine
      Clerkship Primer
      A Manual for Medical Students
        Emergency
         Medicine
     Clerkship Primer
      A Manual for Medical Students
                   The “Clerkship Directors in Emergency Medicine” (CDEM), formed in 2008, is the first
                   “Academy” within the membership of the Society for Academic Emergency Medicine
                   (SAEM). CDEM members are medical student educators who are committed to enhancing
                   medical student education within our specialty. CDEM will provide an opportunity for
                   emergency medicine clerkship directors and medical student educators to join forces,
                   collaborate, and become a unified voice at the national level.
                   CDEM thanks the Department of Emergency Medicine, University of Rochester School of
                   Medicine and Dentistry for its support of the editing and design of this primer.
                   Primer Medical Editor:                                  Chrysa Cullather
                   Design:                                                 Chrysa Cullather
                   An electronic version of this primer in Adobe Acrobat (for reproduction) is available on
                   the CDEM Web site
                                              Copyright ©2008 Clerkship Directors in Emergency Medicine
                   All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or
                   by any means, electronic or mechanical, including, without limitations, photocopying,
                   recording, or by any information storage or retrieval system, without written permission
                   from the publisher.
                   Clerkship Directors in Emergency Medicine
                   901 N. Washington Avenue
                   Lansing, MI 48906-5137
                   Telephone:                  (517) 485-5484
                   Fax:                        (517) 485-0801
                   E-mail:                     cdem@saem.org
                   Web-site:                   www.saem.org/CDEM
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