A cost-effective emergency medicine clerkship.

Programs in emergency medicine for medical students are expected to become increasingly organized over the next several years with the development of emergency medicine teaching faculties by medical schools. In this article, the authors describe a clerkship design with three fundamental elements--clinical instruction, classroom instruction, and evaluation--that should be included in an emergency medicine clerkship. Through the use of optimal student scheduling and new information technologies, the yearly cost per student for the classroom teaching and student evaluation sections of the clerkship is $86.65.