Family Medicine Acting Internship: St. Elizabeth's Hospital

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The Family Medicine Inpatient Service (FMIS) is a team of family medicine residents supervised by family medicine attendings. This team provides the inpatient care for the SLU-FP residency patients as well as community coverage patients admitted to St. Elizabeth's Hospital in Belleville, IL. The FMIS team covers patients admitted to the ICU, telemetry, and general medical wards. The goal of the sub-internship is to give fourth year medical students the opportunity to hone skills in the diagnosis and management of medical problems in the setting of a Family Medicine inpatient service. Additionally, sub-I's serve 1 week on the inpatient OB deck for a full family medicine subinternship experience. Supervision of subinterns is done by faculty, senior residents and interns.