Hospital Medicine
ME 558M.19
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Course Information
Description
The Clinical Capstone in Hospital Medicine will serve as a culminating clinical experience for fourth year medical students. On this rotation, two fourth year medical students will be paired with one hospital medicine attending on the direct-care inpatient medical service on the East Campus at BIDMC. In this course, students will be expected to care for patients independently and build on skills developed during their sub-internship. Students will be responsible for all aspects of patient care including placing all orders, discussing with consultants, updating the multidisciplinary team and family on the plan of care and documenting in the medical record. Students will be expected to care for 4-6 patients with the supervision of the medicine attending. The daily schedule is a full hospitalist day shift and one weekend day per week. There is no overnight call on this rotation. Assessment is based on direct observation of student performance of entrusbable professional activities.
Class Notes
(Clinical Capstone)
Not Available for Cross Registration
