Internal Medicine Clerkship

Catalog description

The Internal Medicine Clerkship has two components, ambulatory and hospital-based, and is designed to provide medical students with a foundation of knowledge, skills, and attitudes necessary to approach and care for adult patients in outpatient and inpatient settings. Students' primary work is done under direct supervision of internal medicine preceptors from the community, the public health system, and the academic setting. The Internal Medicine Clerkship emphasizes basic assessment and management of core common problems in internal medicine, including identifying patient problems, establishing a differential diagnosis, and planning appropriate evaluation and treatment, in preparation for increased independence in management and therapeutics during the advanced rotations.