Family Medicine Acting Internship 6 Credits/Maximum of 6

Catalog description

Core Acting Internship rotations at Penn State emphasize students' active role on the team to ensure readiness for residency. In their role as acting interns, students on Core AI rotations will develop increasing proficiency and independence in developing plans of care, entering orders, preparing and performing patient handoffs, appropriately evaluating and responding to changes in patients' clinical conditions, and applying evidence-based care to patient management. The AI student should function with direct and indirect supervision to gather focused patient information during the history and physical exam in a time effective manner and use critical thinking and advanced knowledge to guide judgement and medical decision making in a semi-autonomous fashion. Students will take primary responsibility and be accountable for patient care, management, follow up, and reassessment throughout all phases of clinical care to also include electronic documentation. The AI student will be expected to exemplify professional behavior, communication, and teamwork with patients and families, interprofessional care team members, and interdisciplinary consultants at the level of a resident intern. This includes a proactive approach to teamwork, warm handoff and patient care follow up. The AI student will also display appropriate team leadership and teaching activities when applicable. This may include involvement in residency didactic sessions and coordination of care activities utilizing and understanding comprehensive care. During this specific AI Course, students will be immersed within the specialty of Family and Community Medicine, across many different patient populations, and will use advanced medical knowledge and practice during direct patient care in a collaborative and interprofessional manner to also include immersion and understanding of patients with different barriers to health care and social determinants of health.