It is the goal of the Emergency Medicine Club at OU-HCOM to introduce students the unique aspects of a relatively young and dynamic medical specialty.  We aim to create opportunities to explore a variety of topics and subspecialties in emergency medicine, to promote the field, and to help prepare students for clinical clerkships and residency.

Services Provided:

In addition to providing clinically useful programming that will prove advantageous to students as they progress beyond their basic science years, the Emergency Medicine Club is working toward instituting new programming in regards to simulated labs.  We hope to expand the number of labs we have offered in the past, to provide our members with more hands-on experience while integrating the simulation dummies in the ER suite.  We have also recently begun a Wilderness Medicine lecture series hosted by Dr. Straley that will continue through out the year. 

Tentative Schedule for 2012-13:

Ongoing:

• ED shadowing

• Care Flight ride-alongs

• Wilderness Medicine lecture series

Fall Semester:

• Organization fair

• Initial general body meeting

• Lifeline of Ohio organ donation awareness event                   (hoping to get all clubs involved)

• IV, chest tube, and ultrasound labs

• Fall fundraiser

• Residency program representatives to visit

• MedWar midwest - http://www.medwar.org/midwest/index.htm

• ACOEP National conference

• Pediatric ER lecture (with Peds Club)

• Residency program representatives to visit

 Spring Semester:

• Winter fundraiser

• Physician Panel

• Central line/venipuncture lab

• Military ER lecture

• Airway lab

• New officer elections

• Suturing Clinic

• Psych in the ED lecture

• Residency program representatives to visit

• After prom fundraiser

• ACOEP spring conference

• Mock codes/ACLS simulation

Many of our events are fairly economical to host.  Our key expenses are providing food for lectures and travel expenses to conferences.  Our plans for generating funds are to host a few fundraisers throughout the year and to apply for two grants geared towards emergency medicine interest groups provided by the Society for Academic Emergency Medicine and the Emergency Medicine Residents Association.

Dues: $20 paid annually.