Acting Internship: Trauma-Surgical Critical Care at Saint Louis University Hospital

Catalog description

Students will be assigned to the trauma and surgical critical care service at Saint Louis University Medical Center where they will participate in the care of patients admitted to the trauma service. They will follow patient in the intensive care unit and on the ward. In addition, they will see patients two days per week in an outpatient setting. They will attend a weekly critical care conference, a weekly trauma conference, and a monthly trauma/emergency medicine conference. They will function at the PGY1 level, admitting and following patients assigned to them by the senior resident on the service. They will see a minimum of 3 new inpatients per week and may follow 6 or more established patients per week. They may perform or assist with, under direct and proper supervision, technical procedures that a PGY1 would ordinarily perform. They may assist in the operating room with all surgical procedures performed.