Emergency medicine teaching service

The Emergency Care clerkship at University has a dedicated teaching service. What that means, practically, is that an attending physician and two residents are there with the express purpose of teaching third-year medical students. The attendings rotate daily, but the two residents stick with the teaching service for the whole two weeks, making for some much-appreciated continuity.

The teaching service sees different patients from the rest of the department, usually picked for educational value. The pace is much slower, too, with time specifically allotted for rounds, which just consists of sitting in a conference room or outside in the courtyard, presenting a patient to the group, and discussing pertinent teaching points that the patient raised. It's ironically a very relaxed learning environment.