IMED 731B Internal Medicine Continuity Core Inpatient/Ambulatory

Credits: 12
The purpose of the Internal Medicine continuity core clinical experience is for students to develop clinical diagnosis, reasoning and communication skills in the care of adult patients with a wide range of acute and chronic, multi-organ system disease in both the ambulatory and hospital settings, with a focus on transitions of care. Students will have the opportunity to see post-hospitalization patients in clinic and to see hospitalized patients during their clinic weeks in order to better understand the patient context of complex transitions of care. They will work in an interdisciplinary team to better understand everyone’s role in both settings. Students will be able to use their knowledge and clinical reasoning skills to perform basic history and physical examinations, develop differential diagnoses, order and interpret diagnostic studies, and devise basic treatment plans.

As part of this clinical experience students will work one on one with outpatient attendings in a fast-paced outpatient practice where they will further enhance their time management and agenda setting skills. In addition, students will experience full breadth and depth of the practice of general internal medicine.

Graded: Pass/No pass
May be taken only once for credit
Also offered as: IMED 731RB