@article{article_1647884, title={Evaluation of Medical Skills of Medical Faculty Final Year Students Who Received Emergency Medicine Internship}, journal={Tıp Eğitimi Dünyası}, volume={24}, pages={3–4}, year={2025}, DOI={10.25282/ted.1647884}, author={Akman, Canan}, keywords={Acil tıp, Beceri, Tıp öğrencisi}, abstract={Dear Editor, With the emergency medicine internship that senior medical students receive, it is expected that they will recognize the emergency condition of patients who apply to the emergency department, perform their initial treatment, and refer them to the relevant specialist when necessary. The National Core Medical Education Program (UCEP) serves as a resource in determining the content of the education and training physicians with basic knowledge and skills (1,2). As we have provided in our study, senior medical students who receive emergency medicine internships can learn the skills of performing triage of cases that apply to the emergency department, requesting anamnesis, examination, tests, making differential diagnosis, making preliminary diagnosis, making differential diagnosis of all life-threatening emergency medical problems, making preliminary diagnosis-diagnosis, making differential diagnosis of all life-threatening emergency medical problems, providing appropriate first intervention, providing advanced cardiac life support, critical patient management, performing basic medical interventions that can be applied in emergency interventions, and approaching patients in accordance with ethical principles, while respecting patient privacy. They carry out their emergency medicine internships in the fields accompanied by research assistant doctors and under the guidance of faculty members. Our aim is to evaluate the medical skills of senior medical students who have received emergency medicine internships with the basic skills and gains targeted to be achieved by using UÇEP and to compare the medical skills of students who have received emergency medicine internships as elective internships according to their areas of interest. When the senior medical students who received emergency medicine internships and then received emergency medicine internships as electives are taken as reference, the evaluation of intubation (27.6%) and prescription preparation (84%) are found to be higher and more significant. We think that this situation is due to the creation of reinforcement opportunities. Considering the restrictions, they demonstrate their performances with model-based practical training in the professional skills laboratory in term 1,2,3 and block internships in term 4 and 5 and formative exams, objective structured clinical exam (NYKS-Observed Structured Clinical Examination [OSCE]). The answers to the survey questions asked because they are one-on-one with patients in the emergency department actually show their real performances in the majority. Both intubation and advanced life support applications are included in medical school education. They also actively participate in emergency medicine internships. The fact that there is a high male gender in the elective emergency internship is completely coincidental. Group dynamics may be different. Those who choose elective internships may be those who want to become emergency medicine specialists in the future, or they may be directed depending on the internship distribution. Senior students may not always have a say in the selection of elective internships. Perhaps another point that should be emphasized is the anxiety they feel despite the fact that emergency medicine knowledge and skills are included during their education in medical school. Our observations prove this right. It is stated that medical school students feel more anxiety than students from other faculties and that this anxiety increases more in the final year of medical school (3). This anxiety affects their desire to work and therefore their performance. The main purpose is to determine the cause of this anxiety and to provide appropriate solutions immediately.}, number={73}, publisher={Tıp Eğitimini Geliştirme Derneği}, organization={yok}