Medicine Clerkship

Catalog Description:  MED 7500 is the core clinical clerkship that provides the critical foundations for not only adult inpatient medicine but also for the care of the acutely ill patient. Students will be part of inpatient care teams that will include interns, residents, and faculty.

Students will learn through case discussions and presentations, didactics, independent study, and in the daily care of their patients. Students are expected to care for their patients as their primary point of contact, to begin to assume the responsibility for caring for, and coordinating care for, their patients.

In addition, students on MED 7500 are expected to develop the basic skills of patient care in an academic environment. These skills include working across disciplines and professions on a health care team, effectively documenting and relaying patient care information between other care providers, and learning how to gather information to create a well-formulated assessment and plan. The skills learned on MED 7500 provide the foundation for patient care that students will use across disciplines for the remainder of medical school, into residency, and beyond.

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Required session attendance: Orientation and Communication Workshop, shifts, lectures if required by sites

Typical weekly schedule/Delivery Mode: Patient care 6 days per week: pre-rounds/rounds typically in the mornings starting at 7:00 or 7:30am, patient care during the day with management of admissions, new patients, and discharges (can typically go until 4pm or potentially 9pm on call days, with didactic/teaching sessions throughout the day.  One day off per week.

Direct patient care: Yes

Consent Requirement: Open to student scheduling

Grading Scale: P/N

Allow repetition of course: Repetition not allowed

Course equivalency: INMD 7310 (VALUE), INMD 7410 (EPAC), INMD 7350 (HeLIX), INMD 7110 (REACH), INMD 7710 (FLIIC)