GASTROENTEROLOGY CLINICAL ELECTIVE

MEDICINE 922

Focuses on fundamental aspects of adult patient health important to all physicians in internal medicine. Work with academic faculty in adult patient health in the ambulatory setting to refine clinical knowledge and skills essential for providing excellent health care. Will have the opportunity to provide supervised preventative care to adults of all ages, and includes common diseases such as asthma, migraine headache, dyslipidemia, diabetes mellitus, musculoskeletal concerns and heart disease.

MEDICINE 955

Exposure to inpatient and outpatient hepatology practice, focusing on functioning effectively as a consultant. The majority time is spent evaluating new and follow-up consultations in the outpatient and inpatient settings. Oral presentations and effective communication with the patient and the primary service are an essential part of this rotation.

PEDIAT 973

Students will participate in pediatric gastroenterology outpatient clinics, round with inpatient faculty, attend pediatric gastroenterology conferences, attend daily pediatric conferences including morning report, case conferences, and grand rounds. Students will also be able to observe procedures in the operating room. Students will be responsible for a 20 minute case-based presentation at the end of the rotation.

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 970

Inpatient consultative gastroenterology emphasize outpatient evaluation care of pts with gastrointestinal (GI) diseases, providing knowledge that nearly any clinical field can use. Develop the necessary problem solving skills and knowledge to efficiently safely evaluate manage common GI disorders other diseases which may also occur in pts with chronic intestinal diseases. Be able to recall the characteristic sign/symptoms test finding in the common GI syndromes. These disorders include: neoplasms of colon, stomach and esophagus; infectious diarrhea; malabsorption syndromes; viral drug-induced hepatitis; other primary secondary gastrointestinal diseases. Evaluation of inpts admissions, ambulatory outpts consults EM consults of the Sect. of GI. These include consultations in general GI hepatology, assisting in the endoscopic procedures on pts to provide a correlation between symptoms/signs endoscopic findings understanding the appropriate use of endoscopy.