Clinical Internal Medicine I

Catalog description

The Internal Medicine rotation primarily occurs in the hospital setting. However, the rotation may occur where hospital medicine is predominate but mixed with a smaller amount ambulatory medicine experiences such as with faculty who are hospitalists or “house medicine” if working with a residency program. Regardless of setting have the goal of introducing the most common conditions patients are cared for by their internal medicine physician in the acute care setting. In this setting, students learn to diagnose and manage common acute medical conditions that are present in both the inpatient settings. Medical students must learn to discriminate emergent conditions from non-emergent ones. Students should begin to acquire the essential knowledge to practice cost effective health care and standards of care. •