Education in Emergency Medicine. Clinical Training for the Management of 1st- to 3rd-level Emergency Patients / 医学教育

ABSTRACT

When serious emergency patients come to a 3rd-level emergency hospital, they are able to obtain optimal medical treatment for their condition. However, the emergency room of general hospitals are extremely crowded with many kinds of patients, ranging from 1st-to 3rd-level emergencies. Thus, a good training program in triage is necessary for emergency medicine doctors because of the risk of inappropriate management of patients.<BR>In this study, we examined the number of 2nd-and 3rd-level emergency patients who came to our emergency room initially as walk-in 1st-level emergency patients in 1991 and 1992. Our results indicate that the education for emergency medicine doctors needs to cover a wide range of medical fields dealing with 1st-to 3rd-level emergency patients, and that ideal training in emergency medicine must be organized in hospitals that accept 1st-to 3rd-level emergency patients.