Clinical Clerkship in Medicine.

Catalog description

(Third year.) CR. Required of third-year medical students. The individual student is assigned responsibility for specific patients from the inpatient and outpatient services at West Virginia University Health Sciences Center or Charleston Area Medical Center service. The student is an integral part of the team providing diagnostic and treatment services needed by the patient, under direct supervision of members of the faculty of the department. The student elicits the patient's history, performs physical examinations, and performs or secures indicated laboratory and clinical studies. The student records findings and presents case reports for discussion by members of the faculty during hospital rounds or outpatient clinics. The student attends such conferences, as directed. Clerkship in medicine occupies 8 weeks. (Grading will be S/U.).