Internal Medicine Core Clerkship

Catalog description

The Internal Medicine core clerkship is an eight (8) week experience served in both ambulatory and inpatient settings. The clerkship is divided into two four-week blocks. One four-week experience will be served in an inpatient setting hospitalist practice or in a general internal medicine practice that has a significant inpatient component. The second fourweek block will offer the opportunity to select one or two subspecialty experiences. This will be determined by the hub site in which the experience is served but may include cardiology, gastroenterology, critical care medicine, pulmonology, hematology, oncology, endocrinology, infectious diseases, neurology, nephrology, rheumatology, geriatrics, and others. Students will have the opportunity to participate in the care of patients presenting with acute or chronic conditions commonly seen in an adult medical practice. Experience will be gained in diagnosis and case management including participation in minor diagnostic and therapeutic procedures such as endoscopy, thoracentesis and lumbar puncture depending upon the service assignment. Each practice may have a unique profile of patients that will offer greater insight into a particular entity.