| Faculty: |
Drs. Amy Shaheen and Cristin Colford |
| Prerequisites: |
completion of second year |
| Offered: |
All |
| Max. Enrollment: |
12 |
| Duration: |
Four weeks |
| Meeting Place: |
TBA |
| Meeting Times: |
TBA |
| Credit Hours: |
6 |
| Learning Objectives: |
For the Internal Medicine Outpatient Clerkship, students spend four weeks in one or more clinics working directly with faculty physicians as they see their own patients. The preceptors at all clinical sites encourage the students to become actively involved in the care of the patients. Under close supervision, the students take primary responsibility for several patients per half-day session by seeing the patient on their own, presenting to the preceptor, and then returning to the patient with the preceptor to initiate the diagnostic and therapeutic plans. The students often write a visit note and follow-up on tests and x-ray results. The students might also have opportunities to see patients again during necessary follow-up appointments. In addition to this active learning experience, the students will also observe these senior clinicians at work. They will see the skillful interviewing and examination techniques of accomplished internists. Equally as important, the students will note how the internist handles complicated patients, manages time, and interacts with other organizations in the present health care environment. These experiences will be supplemented by completion of a series of computer problems, by self-directed readings, and by a half-day experience led by the Division of Geriatrics at UNC and a half-day experience with the clerkship directors at UNC. |
| Date Updated: |
4/8/2008 |
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