Junior Internship in Medicine

Catalog description

This is a face to face clinical rotation receiving 6 credit hours. The student will function as a junior intern with increased autonomy in patient care and must demonstrate competency in all of the Entrustable Professional Activities required for graduation. Students taking this inpatient rotation function as a junior intern. Students must assume responsibility for patient care similar to that of an intern but under the more close and direct supervision of an assigned physician and resident team leader. Emphasis will be placed on improving diagnostic and therapeutic planning and extending patient management skills acquired during the junior Medicine Clerkship. The junior intern should acquire basic problem-solving skills covering a broad spectrum of medical problems encountered in the practice of internal medicine.