HOSP 709S Inpatient Ward - Providence St Vincent

Credits: 6
In this Experience, students will develop critical knowledge and skills pertinent to inpatient care of the adult patient. They will learn to navigate complex EMRs to obtain accurate and focused data, obtain hypothesis-driven histories, and perform problem-focused exams. They will formulate an overall assessment, prioritized problem list, and triaged differential diagnosis with a focus on common and/or complex conditions. They will communicate their findings, assessment, plan and reasoning both orally and in writing. Students will follow the patients through until discharge (or rotation off service) and will gain an appreciation for the complexity and risks of transitions of care. They will do this in a clinical environment that is diverse but also rich in “common” medical conditions such as pneumonia, COPD, heart failure, decompensated liver failure, pancreatitis, sepsis, and malignancies and their complications. They will develop structured approaches to common inpatient complaints such as abdominal pain, chest pain, acute and progressive dyspnea, fever, failure to thrive and syncope.

Students will participate as full members of the care team in an “Accountable Care Unit,” and lead daily multidisciplinary rounds on their patients. This unique unit provides for an enhanced focus on interdisciplinary team work and patient safety. Patients come from broad demographic ranges of ethnicity, socioeconomic status, medical complexity and acuity. The HOSP courses are not designed with specialty destination in mind; all are welcome. They can be taken prior to the Core Experience in order to build a solid foundation for success, or after, to consolidate and further enrich skills.

Graded: Pass/No pass
May be taken only once for credit