Internal Med ClinicalRotation

Catalog description

This 5-week rotation provides the PA student with the practical experience to develop their clinical reasoning skills in the management of preventative, emergent, acute, and chronic medicine in adults and elderly patients in an in-patient setting. Students will gain the skills necessary to interpret and integrate information obtained through the comprehensive history and physical examination, and laboratory and other diagnostics, to formulate differential diagnoses; to develop effective treatment plans; and to provide patient management and counseling throughout the hospital course of treatment. In addition, the students will learn the indications, limitations, and methodology of inpatient diagnostic procedures and therapeutic regimes common to internal medicine. Students are expected to see both adults and elderly adults, in an in-patient or out-patient setting during this rotation.