Acting Internship: Critical Care Medicine at Mercy Medical Center

Catalog description

The medical student will be assigned to a team consisting of an Intensivist, Critical Care Fellow and a resident. This team will cover 12-15 patients in the Medical-Surgical ICU's. The student will be assigned primary responsibility for 1-3 patients under the supervision of the Critical Care Fellow. Teaching rounds occur each morning and the team attends Critical Care noon conference each day. Afternoons are spent on patient care and procedures. Call is every 4th night and the student will stay until 8PM on call nights with the team. Students will receive in-depth exposure to the diagnosis and management of complex, life-threatening problems in all major organ systems that occur in critical medical illnesses.