Rural Medicine - Rural Med - Int Med

Catalog description

Rural Medicine in Internal Medicine is a four week clinical rotation during which each student works with a practicing Internal Medicine physician in the state of Kansas. Student will experience a one-to-one teaching/learning relationship in a private office (i.e., non-institutional) setting and will be exposed to both professional and non-professional aspects of the preceptor's family and social life in a non-tertiary care community environment. The student will perform a history and physical examination on each patient and will be responsible for writing daily progress notes on each assigned patient. Student will formulate diagnostic treatment and educational plans on each patient. The student will write orders after reviewing plans with attending physician. The student will also see patients in the emergency room and present them to the attending physician. The student will be involved in all procedures, such as treadmills, lumbar puncture, bone marrow biopsies, liver biopsies, upper GI endoscopy and flexible sigmoidoscopy on all assigned patients and other patients if appropriate. The student will be required to complete a pass/fail reflective assignment questionnaire which must be turned in to the department and reviewed by the course director. Prerequisite: Senior standing and INMD 975.