ADULT ORTHOPEDICS FOR THE FUTURE ORTHOPEDIST ELECTIVE

RHABMED 915

Provide direct care for hospitalized orthopedic patients on general surgery or surgical specialty services under the supervision of house staff and attending physicians. 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. Participate in scheduled orthopedic operative procedures.

SURGERY 956

Direct supervision by Plastic Surgery senior residents 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.

RHABMED 940

Direct patient care involving a spectrum of orthopedic conditions in an ambulatory setting with appropriate supervision by community orthopedic 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. Assess patients and generate weighted differential diagnoses, initial work-ups, and management plans. Independently read about patient conditions and prepare for direct patient care, as needed. Attend conferences associated with the assigned orthopedic 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.

RHABMED 938

This acting internship will provide medical students with an in-depth exposure to inpatient and operative management of complicated orthopedic surgical patients. The student will work under the direct supervision of a senior resident, fellows, and faculty. This rotation will provide the student with the opportunity to function at the intern level and play an active role in inpatient management of surgical patients.

RHABMED 920

Inpatient hospital setting and outpatient clinical setting. Direct supervision by attending physicians and residents. Inpatient activities include rounding on rehabilitation medicine service patients, observing patient therapy sessions, discussing patient cases. Outpatient activities includes seeing clinic patients, participating in procedures like joint injections and fluoroscopic-guided spinal injections, performing electromyography (EMG), discussing patient cases. Evaluate and manage a full spectrum of patients with neurologic and musculoskeletal issues. Exposure to multiple disciplines involved in the rehabilitation process. Inpatient diagnoses commonly encountered include stroke, brain injury, spinal cord injury, orthopedic injuries, debility, amputations. Outpatient diagnoses commonly encountered include developmental disabilities, spine disorders, chronic pain, arthritis, myofascial pain and fibromyalgia, spasticity, and chronic conditions from prior neurologic injuries.