SURGICAL INFECTIOUS DISEASE ELECTIVE

SURGERY 919

Care for hospitalized patients on general surgery or surgical specialty 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 patient with both common inpatient conditions and medically complex patients requiring collaboration with consulting specialties. Direct supervision by house staff and attending physicians. Participate in regularly scheduled supervisor-student meetings, which involve some or all of the following: rounding on service patients, participating in scheduled operative procedures, presenting cases and teaching topics, and discussing patient cases. Complete independent activities including some or all of the following: reading about patient conditions and preparing for direct patient care as needed. Complete other patient care related learning activities as assigned by instructors.

MEDICINE 971

Inpatient clinical infectious disease management. Diagnostic approaches to infectious presentations, appropriate use of antimicrobials for treatment and prophylaxis. Role of consultants in the hospital via participation in consult team. Common conditions include cellulitis, line infections, osteomyelitis, septic arthritis, intra-abdominal infections, HIV, neutropenic fever and other infectious conditions.

PEDIAT 971

Students will round as members of the inpatient Pediatric Infectious Disease consult team. They will perform infectious disease focused history and physical examinations and participate in the development and communication of management recommendations. Students will also attend outpatient infectious disease clinics, case conferences, microbiology rounds and daily pediatric conferences including morning report, problem conference and grand rounds.

SURGERY 962

Direct supervision by General Surgery senior residents, fellows, and attending physicians. Participate in regularly scheduled supervisor-student meetings, which involve some or all of the following: rounding on service patients, participating in scheduled operative procedures, presenting cases and teaching topics, and discussing patient cases. Complete independent activities including some or all of the following: reading about patient conditions and preparing for direct patient care as needed. Attend conferences associated with the assigned general surgery service. Complete other patient care related learning activities as assigned by instructors; these are dependent on the individual student, the patients under the student's care, and the location.

MEDICINE 909

Infectious disease management skills with a focus on transplant patients. Interaction occurs on the inpatient infectious disease transplant consult service at UW Hospital. In addition to extensive knowledge of infectious diseases in transplant patients, there is also an emphasis on major toxicities and drug interactions between antimicrobial agents, understanding the "net state of immunosuppression," and honing skills as a consultant in the hospital.