MED 4460 Medical Intensive Care Unit (MICU) Sub-Internship
This course is designed primarily to care for inpatients. Senior students will function as an intern on the Intensive Care Unit team. They will provide comprehensive care for assigned patients including their initial work-up, daily progress notes, interpretation of EKGs and other diagnostic tests, and performing procedures under the supervision of senior members of the team. Goals: At the end of this elective, senior students will be able create differential diagnoses of common signs and symptoms in critically ill patients, interpret common diagnostic testing in the ICU, develop management plans for their assigned patients, and ultimately recognize signs and symptoms of critical illness in future patients who require admission in ICUs. Unique Objectives: Correctly interpret diagnostic studies including laboratory and EKGs on assigned patients. Develop management plans for their patients who present with electrolyte, acid base, and fluid disturbances. Attain fund of knowledge and skills to enable the students to initiate care for patients who present with acute gastrointestinal bleeding, acute renal failure, arrhythmias, acute chest pain, electrolyte disorders, hypertensive emergencies, respiratory arrest, and shock
Offered
Walter Reed National Military Medical Center (WRNMMC) - MD; Brooke Army Medical Center, Joint Base San Antonio-Fort Sam Houston (JBSA) - TX; Naval Medical Center, San Diego (NMCSD) - CA; Veteran Affairs Medical Center (DCVA) - Washington, D.C.; National Institutes of Health (NIH) - MD; Madigan Army Medical Center, Joint Base Lewis-McChord (TCM) - WA, Tripler Army Medical Center (TAMC) - HI; International: Landstuhl Regional Medical Center - Germany