Foundations of Hospital Care - A "Safe Space" Hospital Medicine Elective

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VISITING: Closed to visitors. TYPE OF CLERKSHIP: Elective. DESCRIPTION: This elective offers a low-stakes, "safe space" environment for pre-clinical students to build confidence on an inpatient rotation before future core clerkships. Over this two-week rotation, students receive one-on-one attention from internal medicine attendings on the hospital medicine service to improve fundamental skills of history taking, physical examination, oral presentations, note-writing, and clinical reasoning. Students will follow 1-3 patients through their hospital admission, based on comfort and ability, Monday through Friday, 8AM to 3PM. Consider this elective if you are returning from research, a second degree, or gap year, or if you want a supportive mock clerkship experience that will prepare you for success on future rotations. PREREQUISITES: None. PERIODS AVAILABLE: 1-12, full time for 2 weeks, 1 student per period. CLERKSHIP DIRECTOR: Jonathan Anh Quan Duong, M.D., [email protected]. CLERKSHIP COORDINATOR: Nancy D'Amico, [email protected]. REPORTING INSTRUCTIONS: On the first day of the clerkship, the student will meet their attending at 8 am to review learning objectives for the clerkship. CALL CODE: 0. OTHER FACULTY: Staff. LOCATION: SUMC.