Understanding Lupus--A Multidisciplinary Approach to Systemic Disease
ME 533M.J
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Description
Systemic lupus is an ideal disease process to afford medical students the opportunities to gain an appreciation for systemic disease and to learn within a multidisciplinary healthcare team. In this one-month course, medical students will engage in a wide breadth of activities, including ambulatory patient care in our Autoimmune Skin Disease Program and multidisciplinary clinics at Brigham and Women's Hospital with the possibility of additional time at Children's Hospital. There will also be time reserved for scholarly pursuits. This dedicated time for scholarly activity is flexible in that it can be devoted to learning from a certain faculty member, acquiring additional clinical experiences in a related field, learning how clinical trials are conducted in the healthcare setting, working on a short-term clinical or translational research project or case write-up, or initiating work on a longer-term scholarly project with the assistance of faculty mentors. In this way, students' experiences in this course should reflect their own unique and individual interests. At the conclusion of the rotation, students will be asked to give a short presentation of their scholarly activity.
Should a student desire, clinical rotations through other BWH Departments, such as, rheumatology, nephrology, and neurology, this can be arranged to gain an unparalleled perspective on the many disease manifestations of systemic lupus.
Medical students will have the opportunity to attend the monthly BWH Dermatology Grand Rounds and CTD Case Conference. There will be no call taken by the medical student, and their schedule will be arranged on a Monday through Friday basis.
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