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INPATIENT ACTING INTERNSHIP-INTERNAL MEDICINE

MEDICINE 938
Course Description

As an inpatient medicine acting intern (AI), you will have primary responsibility for patients actionable in four domains: 1. Management: As an AI, you will develop actionable management and treatment plans based on your history, physical exam and targeted data. 2. Communication: AIs will communicate with colleagues, primary care providers and consultants. AIs will demonstrate thorough patient hand-offs and write concise discharge summaries that will be integral to patient care. 3. Learning: Patient care issues will be the central guide for learning, directing reading, consultation and research. AIs will formulate questions based upon clinical dilemmas, research the appropriate literature and databases to find the answers, and apply findings to the care of individual patients. 4. Organization: As the primary inpatient provider for patients, AIs will develop efficiency in accomplishing the day to day tasks necessary for the coordination and management of patient care.

Prerequisties
Satisfies

This course does not satisfy any prerequisites.

Credits

4

Offered

Occasionally

Grade Point Average
Not Reported

-100% from Historical

Completion Rate
100%

1.31% from Historical

A Rate
Not Reported

-100% from Historical

Class Size
25

-43.27% from Historical

2025 Fall Grade Distribution

Instructors (2025 Fall)

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