Internal Medicine Clerkship

Catalog description

The five-week inpatient clerkship in internal medicine provides an opportunity to apply the principles of clinical medicine learned in the didactic curriculum. Students are assigned to a team, and through supervised, ongoing patient contact, they are exposed to patients with a wide variety of acute and chronic medical problems. Emphasis is placed on data gathering, differential diagnosis, patient management, maintenance of medical records, performance of diagnostic and therapeutic skills, follow up care and the provision of health education and counseling.