Pediatrics: Hospital Medicine-Cardinal Glennon

Catalog description

The primary focus of the elective is care of children with acute and/or chronic general pediatric illness requiring hospitalization. Skill building will focus on history taking, physical exam, clinical reasoning and decision making, development and implementation of evaluation and management plans, patient/family communication, medical documentation, patient advocacy, and multidisciplinary collaboration as it pertains to hospital care. Elective students will work with nurse practitioners under direct supervision of a pediatric hospital medicine attending, +/- a senior pediatric resident caring for patients admitted to the yellow team. Fourth year students are expected to assume the role equivalent to that of an intern.