Hematology/Oncology
ME 512M.1
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Description
The Hematology-Oncology Elective at BIDMC accepts up to 2 students who play an active role on the Hematology-Oncology Consult service. Students work closely with a Hematology-Oncology Fellow, 1 or 2 Attending Physicians and often an internal medicine resident, seeing inpatients in consultation for a variety of hematologic and oncologic concerns that arise on medicine, surgery, obstetrics-gynecology, and intensive care services. Students are expected to present their patients histories, physical examinations, and laboratory findings with preliminary assessment and plans for discussion at daily rounds, where basic science and pathophysiologic concepts are integrated into clinical teaching. Additionally, students attend weekly teaching conferences, where cases are discussed in depth for didactic purposes, again stressing basic science and pathophysiologic concepts that inform evidence-based and insight-based care of patients. Many of the hematology-oncology conferences at BIDMC are multidisciplinary, including the participation of surgeons, radiation oncologists, pathologists, radiologists, transfusion medicine specialists, and laboratory personnel. Multidisciplinary case discussions enrich in-depth understanding of complex aspects of patient care, occasionally resulting in altered patient management plans and highlighting important aspects of systems-based practice and practice-based quality improvement. At one of the weekly Hematology Conferences, students will have an opportunity to give a PowerPoint presentation based on one of their cases from the Consult Service, with a discussion of basic science, pathophysiology, differential diagnoses, and diagnostic and therapeutic considerations relevant to the case chosen for presentation. In addition to serving as an integral member of the consult service, students will also have an opportunity to see patients with attending physicians in outpatient clinics in the BIDMC Shapiro Clinical Center Hematology-Oncology Ambulatory Unit. Outpatient clinics span a variety of subspecialty interests, including benign and malignant hematologic disorders, disorders of hemostasis and thrombosis, breast cancer, gastrointestinal and hepatobiliary malignancies, thoracic oncology, cutaneous oncology, genitourinary oncology, and biological and experimental therapeutics.
Not Available for Cross Registration
Open to International Visiting Students
