Advanced Medicine Clerkship

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VISITING: Closed to visitors. TYPE OF CLERKSHIP: Selective 2. DESCRIPTION: The Kaiser Permanente Santa Clara Medical Center offers a dynamic academic clinical clerkship in advanced medicine. Students serve as the primary provider for their patients: documenting H&P's, progress notes and discharge summaries, arranging and completing procedures, participating in daily follow-up care, and communicating with patients. Supervision is provided by the senior level resident and the teaching Hospitalist. There are weekly teaching didactics specifically for sub-interns and daily conferences. It is highly recommended that students register for this clerkship near the beginning or middle of their final year of clinicals. If you want to be sure to have a slot for a particular period, you should register to it as soon as possible as the slots are limited and fill quickly. No adds or drops less than one week before start of each period. PREREQUISITES: MED 300A. PERIODS AVAILABLE: 2-12, full-time for 4 weeks, 2 students per period. CLERKSHIP DIRECTOR: Roopam X. Sirohi, M.D., [email protected]. CLERKSHIP COORDINATOR: Susan Krause, 408-851-3836, KPMC, Santa Clara. REPORTING INSTRUCTIONS: Where: KPMC, Graduate Medical Education Office, Call 408-851-3830 for site location; Time: 7:00 am. CALL CODE: 5 (Not overnight). OTHER FACULTY: Staff. LOCATION: KPMC.