MED 4440 General Medicine Sub-Internship
This clerkship provides a supervised inpatient experience evaluating and managing major diseases encountered on an inpatient service. Students will serve as a member of the medicine ward team with "intern" level responsibility including taking call, writing initial orders, and providing daily care to their assigned patients. Emphasis will be placed on developing skills necessary to become successful interns. Goals: At the end of this elective, senior students will be able create differential diagnoses of common adult signs and symptoms of disease, interpret diagnostic testing used in caring for their patients, develop diagnostic and management plans for their assigned patients, and ultimately develop a rationale initial approach to caring for similar patients in the future (prior to referring patients to an internist or other subspecialists). Unique Objectives: Correctly interpret diagnostic studies including laboratory and EKGs on assigned patients. Attain fund of knowledge and skills to enable the students to initiate care for patients who present with abdominal pain, acute gastrointestinal bleeding, acute pulmonary edema, acute renal failure, altered mental status, arrhythmias, chest pain, electrolyte disorders, fever, glycemic control, hypertensive emergencies, nausea and vomiting, pain management, respiratory distress, shock, and seizures
Offered
Walter Reed National Military Medical Center (WRNMMC) - MD; Veteran Affairs Medical Center (DCVA) - Washington, D.C.; Brooke Army Medical Center, Joint Base San Antonio-Fort Sam Houston (JBSA) - TX; Naval Medical Center Portsmouth (NMCP) - VA; Madigan Army Medical Center, Joint Base Lewis-McChord (TCM) - WA, Naval Medical Center, San Diego (NMCSD) - CA; Tripler Army Medical Center (TAMC) - HI; David Grant USAF Medical Center, Travis Air Force Base (DGMC) - CA; Wright-Patterson Medical Center, Wright-Patterson Air Force Base (WPAFB) - OH; Keesler Medical Center, Keesler Air Force Base (KMC) - MS; William Beaumont Army Medical Center (WBAMC) - TX; Eisenhower Army Medical Center (EAMC) - VA