INPATIENT ENDOCRINOLOGY/DIABETES CONSULTS ELECTIVE

MEDICINE 920

Direct patient care involving a spectrum of acute medical conditions on inpatient hospital units with appropriate supervision from residents and attendings. Generate a weighted differential diagnosis, initial work-up and management for acute medical conditions. Review, interpret, and present current literature pertinent on patient care in primary care setting.

MEDICINE 919

Care for hospitalized patients on general medicine or hospital medicine services. Admit new patients, round on previously admitted patients, participate in multidisciplinary rounds, and work to transition patients to the next level of care. Evaluate and manage both patients with common inpatient conditions and medically complex patients requiring collaboration with consulting specialties. Complete other patient care related learning activities as assigned by instructors (e.g., literature reviews, presentations on specific topics); these are dependent on the individual student, attending physician, and clinical site.

MEDICINE 962

Evaluation and management of inpatient and outpatient adult endocrine disorders. Common endocrine conditions include diabetes and thyroid disorders. Other endocrinopathies as they present.

MEDICINE 720

Provides a broad grounding in endocrinology and metabolism with an emphasis on human and human-related disorders wherever possible. Explores further the physiological and molecular mechanisms by which the endocrine regulation of metabolism acts to preserve mammalian health, and how dysfunction in these mechanisms leads to disease, with an emphasis on diabetes, obesity and hypertension.

PEDIAT 950

Supervised activities include interacting with patients primarily in outpatient (some inpatient) settings, performing histories and physical examinations and managing patients with supervision by our staff. Group and individual discussions concerning patients seen in both the outpatient and inpatient settings will occur.