Acting Internship in Critical Care

Sites: Students will be placed at MICU, SICU, NICU and PICU slots at the following sites.

View site addresses by clicking on the site name below or visiting the site codes table.

Required session attendance: 

Typical weekly schedule/Delivery Mode: Mix of days and nights, 80 hrs/week

Direct patient care: Yes

Consent Requirement: Open to student scheduling

Course Objectives: By the end of this rotation, students will be able to:

• Demonstrate the abilty to perform the tasks expected of an intern in the respective clinical environment.
• Recognize a patient requiring urgent or emergent care and initiate evaluation and management. Recognize a patient requiring urgent or emergent care and initiate evaluation and management.
• Formulate appropriate intial and ongoing health care plans for patients that takes into account each patient's values and goals.
• Demonstrate the ability to serve as the primary physician provider for hospitalized patients with appropriate supervision.
• Communicate and coordinate effectively with members of an interprofessional care team and with patients/families.
• Demonstrate advanced clinical reasoning that takes into account evolving evidence, standards of care, and patient values, even with more complicated clinical conditions.

Graded Components: 

• Clinical Assessment
• Sub-Internship Portfolio

Grading Scale: P/N