Medical School for Everyone: Emergency Medicine

Overview

Experience the high-stakes drama, scientific detective work, and medical insights of life in an everyday emergency department.

You’re a doctor 11 hours into your shift, faced with a waiting area packed with patients, including an elderly man with chest pain and a teenage girl with swollen arms from bee stings. With Dr. Benaroch’s 24 lectures, you’ll dive into the intense world of emergency medicine, where split-second decisions can mean the difference between life and death.

Every lecture brings you close to the medical crises that emergency doctors face. Shadow Dr. Benaroch on his shifts, and learn how emergency doctors think, diagnose, and counsel patients and families.

Lectures

01: Triage in Emergency Medicine

Learn about the first critical step of emergency care: triage and prioritizing patients in a busy waiting room.
Duration: 30 min

02: Emergency Medicine Means Thinking Fast

Join an ambulance crew to understand the dynamics of emergency care and the ABCs of patient assessment.
Duration: 31 min

03: Emergency Medicine Means Thinking Again

Explore various patient cases during the night shift and how emergency doctors reassess situations.
Duration: 32 min

04: The Story Is the Diagnosis

Discover how doctors use a mnemonic to accurately pinpoint pain characteristics in patients.
Duration: 31 min

05: Hidden Clues in the Emergency Department

Learn to diagnose patients through attentive storytelling rather than expensive tests.
Duration: 31 min

06: Treat the Patient, Treat the Family

Understand the importance of involving families in the treatment process through patient examples.
Duration: 30 min

07: Chest Pain

Focus on the complexities of diagnosing chest pain and distinguishing between mild and severe cases.
Duration: 31 min

08: Treat the Cause, Not the Symptom

Visit an emergency department to see the importance of accurate diagnosis over merely treating symptoms.
Duration: 30 min

09: Who Needs the Emergency Department?

Distinguish between patients who genuinely need emergency care and those who do not.
Duration: 30 min

10: Altered Mental Status

Learn how to diagnose patients in altered mental states by gathering information from their support network.
Duration: 30 min

11: Simple Symptoms, Serious Illness

Understand why a brief patient history may not always reveal serious conditions.
Duration: 29 min

12: In an Emergency, Protect Yourself First

Explore how emergency doctors stay safe in potentially dangerous situations.
Duration: 28 min

13: Treating Insect and Animal Bites

Learn treatment protocols for various injuries caused by animal and insect bites.
Duration: 30 min

14: The Missing Piece in an Emergency Diagnosis

Discover techniques to build trust with patients to extract vital information for accurate diagnoses.
Duration: 30 min

15: Healthy Paranoia in Emergency Medicine

Explore the mindset of emergency doctors who must always assume serious conditions in patients.
Duration: 29 min

16: Fever: Friend or Foe

Learn how to diagnose and treat different types of fevers and their underlying causes.
Duration: 29 min

17: Always Treat Pain

Understand pain management in emergency settings, focusing on acute and chronic pain cases.
Duration: 30 min

18: An Ounce of Prevention

Discover preventive measures to avoid emergency visits through education and healthcare practices.
Duration: 30 min

19: The Big Picture in Emergency Medicine

Learn how doctors deduce the bigger picture beyond initial symptoms in patient assessments.
Duration: 28 min

20: Is Exercise Good for Your Health?

Examine emergency treatment for sports-related injuries in various scenarios.
Duration: 30 min

21: Stay Safe in the Emergency Department

Gain insights on safety practices in emergency settings for both doctors and patients.
Duration: 29 min

22: Emergency Medicine for Travelers

Explore the challenges of treating patients with travel-related conditions, particularly from abroad.
Duration: 30 min

23: Emergency Medicine Lessons from the Past

Reflect on the evolution of emergency medicine from the Civil War to modern practices.
Duration: 32 min

24: Lessons from the Emergency Department

Review key concepts from the course while examining case studies to improve patient care.
Duration: 32 min