Acting Internship: Critical Care Medicine at Saint Louis University Hospital

Catalog description

The student will be an active member of the MICU Service health care team consisting of 2-3 upper level residents (R2-R4) and R1s, guided by a subspecialty resident (fellow) in pulmonary/critical care medicine, or critical care medicine and the attending MICU physician. Students will be assigned patients for whom they will assume primary responsibility during admission and subsequent management, with focused learning opportunities afforded by close contact with senior team members. Emphasis will be placed on teaching logical and priority-based decision-making when confronted with acutely-evolving disorders, the concept of titrated care at the bedside of ICU patients, pharmacology in the critically ill, and principles of medical ethics relevant to current ICU practices. Opportunities will be provided for learning the indications, contraindications, and alternatives to invasive procedures and for improving technical skills. Students will attend periodic lectures didactic MICU lectures in which the management of diverse organ-based ICU problems is discussed.