Benefits
- The opportunity to rotate with highly skilled and experienced medical personnel including other medical students and program directors
- Interactions during inpatient and outpatient settings afford for the refining of history taking and physical examination skills.
- Learn how to:
- Participate as an integral member of a medical team
- Prioritize medical problems, develop clear-cut ongoing care plans
- Follow up with dismissed patients and manage acute and chronic medical problems
- Astutely select laboratory and ancillary tests
- Institute drug and supportive therapy
- Upon successful completion of each clinical block, performance-based letters of recommendation on GME/teaching hospital letterhead can be requested.
