Useful Clerkships for EM Training

• Plan to take at least one EM clerkship EARLY in the 4th year so it makes it on your transcript for residency applications
• Try for honors in every clerkship possible. Much more important than grades in years 1 & 2
• Consider a Clerkship with an STD Clinic Component (practice with difficult H&P's, lots of genital exam experience)
• Dermatology clerkship useful
• Do your Pediatrics rotation where there is a peds ER to cover
• Take Family Medicine in a rural area where you get to cover the ED and do your own procedures
• Burns rotation (good tissue and wound care skills education)
• INTERNATIONAL trauma rotations! Some require an application a year in advance, so start early!
• Do some fun things! (Almost everything falls under the umbrella of Emergency Medicine)