Acting Internship: Geriatric Medicine at Saint Louis University Hospital

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Each student will admit approximately twenty patients-two patients on each long-call night (every fifth night) and one patient on each short-call day (two days out of five) and follow each patient until they are transferred to another service or discharged from the hospital. Students will write all admission and subsequent orders, write a daily progress note, perform all needed procedures, and participate in discharge planning activities for their patients. Students will attend all work and teaching rounds, as well as all teaching conferences while on service. In all of the above areas the students will be under the supervision of an upper-level resident and attending physician. Supervision:Upper level residents and faculty members of the Division of Geriatric Medicine of the Department of Internal Medicine of the Saint Louis University School of Medicine will supervise the subinterns.