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GMED 5010
Category: Clinical
Eligible: Enrichment Only
Length: 2 or 4 weeks
Course Description: Supervised by attending physicians, students will participate in primarily outpatient consultations, participate in teaching conferences, gain experience in pertinent diagnostic procedures, evaluate and follow patients in the faculty practices, and learn pathophysiology, differential diagnosis, clinical manifestations, management, and therapy of rheumatology.
GMED 5012
Category: Clinical
Eligible: Enrichment Only
Length: 2 or 4 weeks
Course Description: This elective is designed to provide the basics in clinical hematology and medical oncology. In depth study of blood and marrow morphology is emphasized. An approach to diagnosis and management as well as general principles of cancer chemotherapy will be stressed. The importance of interdisciplinary cancer decision-making (internist, surgeon, radiation therapist) will be emphasized. Two half-day clinics each week are arranged to emphasize the diagnosis and therapy of common hematologic and oncologic disorders.
GMED 5013
Category: Clinical
Eligible: Enrichment Only
Length: 2 or 4 weeks
Course Description: This elective is designed to provide the basics in nephrology. Students will gain inpatient experience in managing patients with renal disease including hemo and peritoneal dialysis, nephritic syndrome and uremic complications. Procedural opportunities may include dialysis catheter insertion.
GMED 5014
Category: Clinical
Eligible: Enrichment Only
Length: 2 or 4 weeks
Course Description: Objectives of the elective will be to learn general principles of rehabilitation medicine in the hospital setting, in addition to participation in a multidisciplinary approach to treatment of patients undergoing rehabilitation. The student will have some clinical responsibility for patients admitted to the hospital and follow them through their rehabilitation. Specialty programs for Brain Injury, Pediatric Rehab. Spinal Cord Injury, Stroke Rehab.
GMED 5016
Category: Clinical
Eligible: Clerkship +
Length: 2 or 4 weeks
Course Description: This elective is designed to enable the student to gain experience in clinical nephrology through participation in inpatient consultations, teaching conferences, and once weekly general nephrology outpatient clinic. Students will be a part of an active consultation service following patients with complex problems in the ICU and on the inpatient wards. They will also learn the skills needed to perform a urinalysis.
GMED 5017
Category: Clinical
Eligible: Clerkship +
Length: 2 or 4 weeks
Course Description: The elective is an integrated rotation between the cardiology consult service and the special procedure labs. Student’s time will be divided between the consult service and the labs. On the consult service the student will be exposed to various cardiovascular diseases in medical and pre and post-operative surgical in-patients. Each week the student will spend one day in one of the special procedures laboratories (cardiac catheterization lab, ECHO lab, electrophysiology labs and Nuclear/stress testing lab.)
GMED 5021
Category: Clinical
Eligible: Clerkship +
Length: 2 or 4 weeks
Course Description: This course is designed to provide an understanding of clinical aspects of diseases of the digestive system, pancreas and liver, including endoscopy, interpretation of gastrointestinal x-rays, biopsies and laboratory results. The course occurs in a variety of practice settings including hospital consults, outpatient clinics and endoscopy. Supervision is provided by Gastroenterologists as well as house staff in some locations.
GMED 5022
Category: Clinical
Eligible: Enrichment Only
Length: 2 or 4 weeks
Course Description: Explores common sleep-related disorders and treatment of acute and chronic medical conditions, including but not limited to parasomnias, obstructive sleep apnea, and narcolepsy. Students are challenged to acquire the ability to apply this knowledge in diverse clinical settings with the majority being in an outpatient consultative service.
GMED 5023
Category: Clinical
Eligible: Enrichment Only
Length: 2 or 4 weeks
Course Description: This elective is designed to provide experience in consultative pulmonary medicine.
Emphasis is placed upon the clinical evaluation of patients with altered lung function,
and the appropriate use of both invasive and noninvasive pulmonary diagnostic procedures.
The student will gain experience in interpretation of chest roentgenograms, pulmonary
function tests, and arterial blood gases. Selected pulmonary topics are covered in
the weekly pulmonary conference.
GMED 5025
Category: Clinical
Eligible: Enrichment Only
Length: 2 or 4 weeks
Course Description: This clinical consultation service provides experience in the diagnosis and management of patients with infections, interpretation of stained specimen cultures and sensitivity data, serology and the appropriate use of antimicrobial and antiviral agents. The elective consists of inpatient consultative rounds as well as the opportunity for exposure to infectious disease outpatient clinics and conferences. On call availability is needed.
GMED 5027
Category: Clinical
Eligible: Enrichment Only
Length: 2 or 4 weeks
This course requires application using VSAS or other arrangements made by the student. Off-Campus Add Form Required.
Course Description: This course is designed to give students a chance to rotate in an Internal Medicine or subspecialty program at another hospital or location.
GMED 5028
Category: Clinical
Eligible: Enrichment Only
Length: 4 weeks
Arrangements must be made by the student with a member of the faculty. A description of proposed project must be submitted to the Medicine Education Office.
Course Description: This course provides the opportunity to participate in research programs being conducted by members of the faculty of the Department of Medicine.
GMED 5039
Category: Clinical
Eligible: Enrichment Only
Length: 2 or 4 weeks
Course Description: During this rotation, thyroid, adrenal, parathyroid, pituitary and gonadal diseases as well as diabetes, developmental problems, virilization and electrolyte disorders will be discussed. There will be opportunities for didactic presentations and students will be expected to read relevant clinical literature. Student responsibilities will include participation in inpatient consultation and clinic activities, as well as the weekly clinical conference.
GMED 5040
Category: Clinical
Eligible: Clerkship +
Length: 2 or 4 weeks
Course Description: Students will have exposure to clinical cardiology both in the hospital and the office through involvement in the evaluation of new patients and routine follow-up of established patients. They will become familiar with Treadmill Exercise Testing, both in the office as well as hospital setting. The student will be exposed to both M mode echocardiography as well as two dimensional sector scanning, Doppler Echo and transesophageal echo. The students will also have exposure to cardiac catheterization and pacemaker insertion. Students interested in cardiology or internal medicine are preferred.
GMED 5056
Category: Clinical
Eligible: Enrichment Only
Length: 4 weeks
Course Description: This elective is designed to introduce the student to applied epidemiology, preventive medicine, and public health as practiced at CDC. Students have the opportunity to actively assist in epidemiologic investigations of infectious diseases and in studies of a wide variety of public health problems such as chronic, environmental, and occupational diseases, injuries, and reproductive health. Students work under the supervision of CDC epidemiologists and work on specific projects. Students are also exposed to day-to-day operations and a broad range of activities at CDC. Familiarity with computers and data analysis is helpful but not essential. Students are responsible for providing their own living and travel expenses.
Special Circumstances: Please see CDC Epidemiology elective program website for open application period dates.
GMED 5066
Category: Clinical
Eligible: Enrichment Only
Length: 2 or 4 weeks
Course Description: Students will participate in the development of a differential diagnosis and evaluation scheme for common problems in patients with obesity in the outpatient setting. Upon successful completion of obesity medicine elective rotation, the student should be able to do the following: Correctly diagnose patients with obesity in varying age categories and ethnic groups, Utilize various treatment modalities for obesity including diet, lifestyle changes, behavioral, pharmacotherapy and endoscopic interventions, and appropriately refer patients for metabolic and bariatric surgery.
Category: Clinical
Eligible: All
Length 2 or 4 weeks
Course Description: This rotation is designed primarily for 3rd year students as an introduction to musculoskeletal disorders and systemic inflammatory disease states in an ambulatory setting. Supervised by attending physicians, students will participate in primarily outpatient consultations, participate in teaching conferences, gain experience in pertinent diagnostic procedures, evaluate and follow patients in the faculty and fellow practices, and learn pathophysiology, differential diagnosis, clinical manifestations, management, and therapy of rheumatic diseases.
GMED 5095
Category: Clinical
Eligible: All
Length 2 or 4 weeks
Course Description: Students will see patients in a hospice setting in the office as well as hospital consultations. Student will be able to participate in interdisciplinary team discussions about patient care.
GMED 5096
Category: Clinical
Eligible: All
Length 2 or 4 weeks
Course Description: This rotation is designed to provide medical students with patient based, clinically oriented exposure to outpatient Internal Medicine. Interactions and learning opportunities will be conducted in the outpatient clinic setting primarily in the General Internal Medicine clinic with some exposure to other subspecialties.
GMED 6599
Category: Non-Clinical
Eligible: Enrichment Only
Length 4 weeks
Course Description
This elective is designed to allow fourth year students an opportunity to practice
their leadership skills as they serve as a peer role model to third year students
on the Medicine clerkship rotation. Students must receive site director's approval
through the Medicine clerkship office.