Junior Internship in Critical Care Medicine-VAMC

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. The student will be introduced to responsibility for inpatient care in a setting where the student is the initial evaluator of the patient’s problems as outlined in the general instructions. The student is expected to develop conceptual and manual skills for evaluation and care of internal medicine patients and become more familiar in dealing directly with hospital and other paramedical personnel with appreciation of the team approach to patient care. The student will participate in rounds at least four days per week with the attending physician assigned to the service and will consult daily with the resident house staff on each assigned patient. The student will attend Medical Grand Rounds every Wednesday and House Staff conferences on Monday, Tuesday, Thursday and Friday. The student will have responsibility for attending patients admitted to his or her assigned service and their on-going care while in the hospital. Where assignments involve subspecialty services, the student will be responsible for all medical aspects of patient’s care which will be the primary goal of this experience. For in- depth study of a medical subspecialty students should refer to individual specialty listings of preceptorships or research electives. NOTE: Not available in December as only Junior Internship.