Inpatient Acting Internship-Family Medicine

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Goals: To provide students experience in the application of essential family medicine skills, attitudes, and knowledge in an inpatient setting. Objectives: Students will develop their skills in obtaining medical history and physical exam findings relative to the common and major disorders encountered in the Family Medicine inpatient service. Students will improve their skills in the evaluation and management of common and major inpatient disorders. Students will be able to discuss documentation requirements in the hospital, and compare them to requirements in the student clinic. Students will be able to discuss the effects of social and cultural variables on the health of patients in the hospital setting. Students will extend their knowledge of fundamental principles of medicine and specific disease entities through conferences, readings, and other self-study learning modalities; and will be able to discuss practical applications of that information.