Acting Internship: General Floor Service at Cardinal Glennon Children's Hospital

Catalog description

The student functions as closely as possible to a true intern. This rotation helps students confirm specialty choices in many cases and serves as a "proving ground" to confirm they will be able to succeed in a housestaff position. The setting is a fully equipped and staffed children's hospital, also housing a pediatric residency and full-time medical school faculty. The student will be expected to do workups on new patients and subsequent following of these patients will usually result in a case load of 6-7 patients at a time. Patient selection will be coordinated by the senior resident on the inpatient team targeting common and representative general pediatric problems. By participating in attending rounds, the student will be exposed to the care of all patients on the team even though they are not directly responsible for their case. This will further assure their exposure in a four week period to.