Cadre CLERKSHIPS:

Family Medicine Clerkship

PREREQUISITES AND PLACEMENT IN THE CURRICULUM:

Completion of M2 Year; Yr Three

PURPOSE:

The Family Medicine clerkship is a required principal intendance ambulatory rotation. The clerkship teaches the knowledge, attitudes, and skills necessary to provide continuing, comprehensive and preventive care to individuals and families who represent a broad spectrum of ages and cultures in the outpatient setting.

COMPETENCIES:

During the six-week clerkship, students volition increase their ability to:

  1. Diagnose and manage common acute and chronic ambulatory problems in a well-reasoned manner
  2. Provide comprehensive patient intendance with a family and community perspective
  3. Recognize and address personal cognition, skill, and/or reasoning gaps that arise during patient encounters
  4. Behave in a professional person and ethical manner.

INSTRUCTIONAL FEATURES:

Students spend approximately 1 and ½ days per week at the UIC Department of Family unit Medicine where they:

  1. Work in pocket-sized groups on typical family medicine problems
  2. Participate in workshops designed to raise particular skills

Students spend the remainder of the clerkship in a clinical practice site where they are supervised by Family unit Medicine attending physicians and residents.

Cess:

Students' clinical performance is evaluated past faculty members using Department'due south Clerkship Evaluation form. Students are too required to pass a Family Medicine multiple-selection national exam and may exist required, as well, to complete locally developed clinical performance assessments.

Administrative INFORMATION:

Program Number: CLER 606

Location: Various Sites as Assigned

Program Director:  Sagina Hanjrah, [electronic mail protected]

Phone: 312-413-8493

Clerkship Coordinator:Monica Davis, [e-mail protected]

Duration: half dozen Weeks

Dark Call: At some sites

Weekends: At some sites

Students Accepted:

Housestaff Used as Faculty: Yes

Lectures/Conferences/Kinesthesia Contact: 8

Laboratory/Contained Study: 3-5

Outpatient: thirty-40

Inpatient: 0-v

Full Hours /Week: l-55

KEY WORDS: Family Practise, ambulatory care, primary care, continuing, comprehensive and preventive intendance, intendance of individuals in the context of the family, intendance of the family as a unit, biopsychosocial approach, patient-centered medicine, culturally competent care, doctor-patient human relationship.

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Updated: vi/25/18

Medicine Clerkship

PREREQUISITES AND PLACEMENT IN THE CURRICULUM:

Completion of M2 Year; Year Three

PURPOSE:

The bones Internal Medicine clerkship is designed to betrayal students to the comprehensive arroyo to adult patients with nonsurgical disease. The emphasis is on perfecting the fundamental skills of data collection, clinical reasoning, and agreement of pathophysiological procedure. The experience is patient-centered, supplemented with didactic presentations and student readings appropriate to the intendance of their own patients. In their first exposure to Internal Medicine
as a discipline, students simulate the role of a trained internist under the close supervision of resident trainees and kinesthesia members.

COMPETENCIES:

The following competencies are necessary to achieve the goals of the Medicine clerkship:

    1. Perform a comprehensive history and physical with the ability to present complicated cases conspicuously and succinctly
    2. Empathize the process of clinical decision making that is based on an appreciation of basic and clinical science, clinical epidemiology and the psychosocial make-upwardly of an individual patient
    3. Gain Internal Medicine skills by learning to identify and prioritize patients' medical problems
    4. Display the ability to interact with patients effectively and understand the concept of individual patient advancement
    5. Display professionalism in patient care and in interaction with peers and ancillary personnel; and exist an effective fellow member of the health care delivery team.

INSTRUCTIONAL FEATURES:

      1. 8 week consignment to inpatient acute intendance medicine units
      2. Working with a health intendance team equanimous of colleagues, residents, and kinesthesia members
      3. Frequent formal rounds with attending physicians, emphasizing pathophysiology and clinical decision making
      4. Four week assignment to ambulatory general medicine and subspecialty practices
      5. Working one-on-one with attending physicians in the outpatient setting
      6. Omnipresence at departmental didactics conferences
      7. Didactic curriculum designed specifically for third year medical students.

Of import:

All students volition have one month of inpatient and one month of outpatient at their designated sites.  These sites include Christ Medical Center, Illinois Masonic Medical Eye, Lutheran Full general Infirmary, Mercy Hospital, St. Francis Infirmary, St. Joseph of Chicago, University of Illinois Hospital, Jesse Dark-brown Veterans Administration Medical Middle, and Weiss Hospital. *In add-on, all students assigned to the various community sites, will spend i calendar month of inpatient at the University of Illinois or at the Jesse Chocolate-brown VA Medical Center (assigned by the Clerkship Managing director).
Students assigned to University of Illinois or Jesse Brown VA, will spend i calendar month of inpatient at one of the community hospitals listed above (assigned past the Clerkship Director).
The convalescent component is composed of a core curriculum as well every bit clinical experiences at a variety of sites. During the convalescent component, at that place is neither telephone call nor any weekend clinical responsibilities. The core curriculum classes are held each Monday at the University of Illinois and include a diverseness of educational experiences.

ASSESSMENT:

Written clinical evaluations from residents and attending physicians, and a clerkship test given at the end of the rotation.

ADMINISTRATIVE Information:

Program Number: CLER 605

Location: Various Sites as Assigned

Program Director: Asra R. Khan, MD,  Nabeela Rabbani (Coordinator)

Telephone: 312-996-5998

East-Mail: [email protected], [e-mail protected]

Duration: 12 Weeks

Night Call: Aye

Weekends: Yes

Number of Students Accepted:

Housetaff Used as Faculty:  Yeah

Lectures/ Conferences/ Faculty Contact:

Laboratory/Independent Study:

Outpatient:

Inpatient:

Full Hours/Week:

Primal WORDS: History and concrete examination, pathophysiology, clinical epidemiology, professionalism, patient advocacy, toll effectiveness, clinical reasoning.

Click here to link to the Office of Educatee Affairs Spider web Site to view the Reporting Instructions for the Medicine Clerkship.

Updated:  10/i/14

Surgery Clerkship

PREREQUISITES AND PLACEMENT IN THE CURRICULUM:

Completion of M2 Yr; Yr 3

PURPOSE:

The General Surgery Clerkship is designed to be an introduction to Surgery and selected surgical subspecialties. Students are assigned to the inpatient surgical wards and clinics. The students are taught the approach to the surgical patient and participate in pre- and postoperative care too as perform certain invasive techniques safely. By the cease of rotation, students are expected to know the indications and the contradictions and the part of ancillary services in managing surgical diseases.

COMPETENCIES:

As a outcome of attending this clerkship, the pupil should be familiar with and be able to perform the post-obit functions:

  1. Perform a complete and competent history and concrete test on surgical patients on the wards and in the Surgical Clinics
  2. Review, record, and communicate clinical observations both in the chart and on rounds
  3. Perform a variety of invasive procedures including nasogastric intubation, venous access, arterial puncture, wound dressing, and closure of simple wounds
  4. Know when to order and how to interpret common diagnostic tests and laboratory results in surgical patients
  5. Be familiar with sterile technique, common operative procedures, and the operating room environment
  6. Notice and anticipate mutual postoperative complications
  7. Gain initial exposure to selected surgical subspecialties (site specific)
  8. Understand indications per various surgical procedures and their timing.

INSTRUCTIONAL FEATURES:

The students are expected to participate in all activities of the service. These include daily rounds with the Surgical Residents, outpatient clinics, teaching rounds, Interdisciplinary Conferences, conferences with the Attending Staff, and breezy pedagogy sessions. Students will be required to take hospital night phone call according to a schedule developed at each site, just with a frequency not to exceed every fourth night. Students are expected to become familiar with sterile technique, common operative procedures and the operating room environment. "Scrubbing" on bodily surgical procedures is encouraged during all phases of the rotation. A didactic lecture serial is offered to the students and is given by the faculty in Surgery. The lecture series is attended by students from all sites, occurs on Thursday afternoon and is mandatory. The lecture serial is meant to supplement and not rep lace the student's reading and independent study.

Cess:

Students are evaluated clinically by the Attention faculty and Senior level residents (2/iii of the course) and take a terminal test (i/3 of the concluding grade).

ADMINISTRATIVE Information:

Program Number: CLER 604

Location: Various Sites as Assigned

Program Director: Amelia Bartholomew, Doc

Program Coordinator: Tricia Harvat,  babcockt@uic.edu

Telephone: 312-996-6765 or 312-996-1734 Fax:  312-355-3722

Duration: viii Weeks

Night Phone call: Q4

Weekends: Yes

Students Accepted: All

Housestaff Used as Faculty: Aye

Lectures/Conferences/ Faculty Contact: half dozen-eight

Laboratory/Independent Written report: half-dozen-8

Outpatient: xviii

Full Hours/Calendar week 36-42

Key Words: Full general Surgery pre-and post-operative care, wound direction, surgical subspecialties

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Updated:  ten/1/14

Pediatrics Clerkship

PREREQUISITES AND PLACEMENT IN THE CURRICULUM:

Completion of M2 Twelvemonth; Year Three

PURPOSE:

The clerkship provides extensive clinical feel with diseases of infants, children, and adolescents, as w ell as with normal infants and children. Patients are seen in a variety of clinical settings, including the newborn nursery, the pediatrics inpatient units, and a diverseness of outpatient settings also as in the emergency room. Normal processes of growth and development are emphasized, and diseases are approached within this frame of reference. The student will develop basic skills in the evaluation and management of infants and children, and will gain an understanding of the attitudes and approaches of pediatric medicine that are intended to foster optimal physical and psychosocial evolution of the child.

COMPETENCIES:

In the process of completing this course, students learn the post-obit competencies: one) An agreement of normal growth and development from the newborn period through adolescence; ii) The ability to place and appraise clinical problem due south in pediatric-age patients; three) The knowledge and experience to develop an appropriate medical management programme for infants, children, and adolescents; 4) An agreement of the role of psychosocial factors on child health and welfare; 5) Noesis of the principal elements of preventive pediatrics, including immunization and anticipatory guidance; 6) The power to communicate effectively with patients/caretakers.

INSTRUCTIONAL FEATURES:

Varies somewhat from site to site. However, the general structure is:

  1. One calendar week is spent in the Normal Nusery, iii weeks in Ambulatory, which may include call in the Pediatric Emergency Room, and ii weeks on a general pediatrics inpatient unit.
  2. There is a cadre lecture series that students are required to nourish
  3. At that place are various other lectures and conferences, including weekly Grand Rounds are likewise elements of the educational programme
  4. Students are required to consummate a serial of spider web-based interactive clinical cases.

ASSESSMENT:

A composite performance evaluation is prepared by the site coordinator from in formation supplied by the faculty members and firm staff who worked with the student in the nursery, outpatient setting, inpatient unit of measurement, and the clinics. A clerkship examination is besides given at the end of the rotation.

ADMINISTRATIVE Data:

Plan Number: CLER 603
Location: Various Sites as Assigned
Program Director: Claudia Boucher-Berry, Md
Co-site Director: Karen Hayani, Medico
Email: [email protected]
Phone: 312-996-1789
Programme Coordinator: Austin Snyder
Phone: 312- 996-3076
Email: [email protected] Elapsing: 6 Weeks
Night Telephone call: call until x:00 pm on 4 occasions
Weekends: Yes
Students Accepted:
Housestaff Used as Faculty: Yes
Lectures/Conferences: Vary in Quantity by Clerkship Site
Laboratory: No
Outpatient: 2 Weeks
Inpatient: two Weeks
Total Hours/Weeks: 40-60

Primal WORDS:Pediatric medicine, infants, children, adolescents, comprehensive care, health maintenance, immunization, health promotion.

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Updated:  7/two/eighteen

Psychiatry Clerkship

PREREQUISITES AND PLACEMENT IN THE CURRICULUM:

Completion of M2 Year; Twelvemonth Iii

PURPOSE:

In the core psychiatry clerkship, students acquire how to understand, diagnose and treat patients with psychiatric disorders. They are trained to bear diagnostic interviews and perform comprehensive mental status examinations. They larn to work with multidisciplinary teams to provide psychiatric treatment in inpatient, consult/liaison, outpatient and emergency room settings, and to use a biopsychosocial framework to empathize psychiatric illness.

COMPETENCIES:

In the process of completing this grade, students acquire the following competencies:

    1. Perform and articulate a comprehensive mental status examination, including psychiatric and neuropsychiatric elements
    2. Conduct psychiatric interviews with a wide variety of patients, demonstrating power to plant rapport and obtain data pertinent to diagnosis
    3. Identify and collect other clinical data needed to diagnose behavioral disturbances, including relevant laboratory studies and psychological testing
    4. Codify a comprehensive and authentic differential diagnosis for psychiatric symptoms, using standard diagnostic nomenclature
    5. Employ a biopsychosocial framework to describe biological, intrapsychic, familial and sociocultural influences on patients' presenting complaints
    6. Understand the indications for, and basic principles of, commonly used psychiatric treatments, including psychodynamic psychotherapy, cognitive therapy, behavior therapy, family therapy, grouping therapy, pharmacotherapy and electroconvulsive therapy
    7. Recognize psychiatric emergencies and perform basic emergency intervention.

INSTRUCTIONAL FEATURES:

Inpatient psychiatry units, outpatient psychiatry clinics, psychiatry emergency services, child psychiatry clinics, psychiatry consultation/liaison services, and lectures.

Reporting Instructions:

All students written report to orientation at 1747 W. Roosevelt Road, Room 361, nine:00 AM on the first Monday with Drs. Blitzstein, Cooper and Graciela Bernal, instructions for site reporting volition exist given at this orientation.

Cess:

Clinical evaluation, standardized patient exam, written clerkship exam.

Administrative INFORMATION:

Program Number: CLER 602

Location: Various Sites equally Assigned

Programme Director: Sean Blitzstein, Md – [email protected]

Coordinator: Graciela Bernal –[email protected]

Telephone: 312-413-5664

Duration: half dozen Weeks

Night Call: Yes

Weekends: Yep, if on call

Students Accepted: 38/clerkship

Housestaff Used as Faculty: Aye

Lectures/Conferences/Faculty: Contact: 6

Laboratory/Independent Report:

Outpatient: Varies

Inpatient: Varies

Total Hours/Calendar week: 36-forty

Fundamental WORDS: Mental status exam, psychiatric interview, biopsychosocial framework, psychotherapy, pharmacotherapy, electroconvulsive therapy, mood disorders, psychotic disorders, organic mental disorders, anxiety disorders, eating disorders, somatoform disorders, babyhood psychiatric disorders.

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Updated:  vii/27/sixteen

Obstetrics & Gynecology Clerkship

PREREQUISITES AND PLACEMENT IN THE CURRICULUM:

Completion of M2 Year, Twelvemonth Iii

PURPOSE:

The overall objective oh the Tertiary Year Clerkship in Obstetrics and Gynecology is that students acquire and apply the bones information and primary the bones skills needed by all physicians who provide care for women.  Further, students will exist exposed to a variety of patients with obstetric and gynecologic problems; including normal and high-take a chance pregnancies, pregnancy wastage and infertility, gynecologic endocrine abnormalities, infections, psychosomatic, and neoplastic problems.  Students will also run across patients who desire contraceptive advice or accept bug in the psychosexual sphere.  Students spend iii weeks on synecology convalescent and surgical services, evaluating patients in general gynecology, gynecologic oncology, family planning, and endocrine clinics.  During the iii weeks on the obstetrical services, students rotate on prenatal clinics, labor and delivery, and antepartum/postpartum wards.  These are subject to change as the clerkship is revised; also, there may be some site variations.

COMPETENCIES:

Within the context of human reproduction and the various physiological and psychosocial aspects of health and affliction, students will demonstrate power to:

  1. Obtain and record a gynecologic and sexual history, also as an obstetrical history
  2. Perform a pelvic test satisfactorily
  3. Perform and interpret a chest exam
  4. Evaluate a patient'south hurting and therapy
  5. Assess the condition of a woman in labor.

INSTRUCTIONAL FEATURES:

Students rotate onto three wards – labor and delivery, antepartum /postpartum , and gynecology. Patients are seen in ambulatory sites in the clinics: antepartum, gynecology, gynecologic oncology, reproductive/endocrine, and family planning. Students have a variety of didactic sessions to nourish including subspecialty seminars, core lectures, visiting faculty lectures and seminars, grand rounds and teaching rounds. Students are encouraged to nowadays patients to attendings and senior residents. Students also participate in the pelvic educational activity associates program where they develop their breast and pelvic examination skills on women who are trained to act as patient models. This allows review of skills and methods prior to examinations of patients.

ASSESSMENT:

Performance is evaluated by residents and faculty members using the College of Medicine Clerkship Evaluation Class, by ways of clinical pathophysiology/management cases also every bit through direct observation during clinical activities. Student's cognitive cognition base is assessed through the National Board of Medical Examiners multiple option test in Obstetrics/Gynecology.

Administrative Information:

Program Number:CLER 601

Location: Various Sites as Assigned

Clerkship Director: Catherine Wheatley, Doctor, [e-mail protected]

Program Coordinator: Rose Cazares – [e-mail protected]
Coordinator Phone: 312-996-7430

Telephone: 312-355-3534

Duration: 6 Weeks

Night Phone call: 6-ten hours

Weekends: Yes

Students Accustomed: ii-10 per site

Housestaff Used every bit Faculty: Yes

Lectures/Conferences/Kinesthesia Contact: 6/3/10

Laboratory/Independent Study: Pelvic Examination (Clinical Performance Center)

Outpatient: Varies

Total Hours/Week: 42 plus six-10 hours of call

KEY WORDS: Ambulatory Care, Family Planning, Reproductive Endocrinology, Gynecologic Oncology, Perinatology, Infertility, Contraception, Antepartum/Postpartum, Cervical Dysplasia, Amenorrhea

Click hither to link to the Function of Pupil Affairs Web Site to view the Reporting  Instructions for the Obstetrics and Gynecology Clerkship.

Updated: 6/twenty/19

Neurology Clerkship

PREREQUISITES AND PLACEMENT IN THE CURRICULUM

Must be a current M3 or M4 student.

REQUIREMENTS:
Exist enlightened that paperwork for the sites is required 4 weeks in advance of the clerkship start engagement, and for the VA paperwork is needed 6 weeks in advance.  Students are not allowed to start their rotation at Advocate Christ Medical Center and Jesse Brown VA Medical Center without information technology.

PURPOSE:

Student clerks spend ii weeks on the Neurology Service at the Jesse Brown VA Medical Center (JBVA), the University of Illinois at Chicago Medical Eye (UICMC) or Advocate Christ Medical Centre (ACMC). Although students may express a preference for placement at a particular site, the Clerkship Director reserves the right to change assignments between the JBVA and UIH.  Because of this, students are required to have up-to-date VA credentials at the commencement of the clerkship.  Students who select to rotate at Christ will non be reassigned.  Students who rotate at Christ will still take the same basic requirements (weekends, end-of-rotation exam) as students at other clinical sites. Paperwork must be completed 4 weeks in advance for Christ and the paperwork must be completed 6 weeks in advance at VAMC, delight see forms section of the website: Clinical Site Compliance Requirements & Forms

Students must be nowadays for orientation on the first Monday of the Clerkship.  Unexcused absence from orientation will crave rescheduling of the Clerkship.  Each medical student will be immune no more than 2 days in the rotation for excused absences.  All absences must cleared by the Clerkship Manager no later than 4 week prior to the start of the Clerkship.  Students will be assigned to one resident and 1 faculty fellow member. If any students are interested in Neuro ICU rotation that option is bachelor.

COMPETENCIES:

In the process of completing this class students acquire the post-obit competencies:

  • Become skilful with a basic neurological examination.
  • Increase cognition and skills in performing a more comprehensive test.
  • Learn and utilise the principles of neurological localization to clinical diagnosis.
  • Know the major categories and cardinal manifestations of neurological diseases.
  • Be able to recognize common neurological emergencies.
  • Be familiar with major modes of neurological therapy.

INSTRUCTIONAL FEATURES:

The clerkship has a two-week structure with an orientation at the outset, and a last exam at the terminate of the clerkship. Students will be provided with the learning objectives and the bones neurology course on blackboard.

ASSESSMENT:

Each educatee is evaluated in writing by supervising attendings and residents in the  inpatient and outpatient services. A cursory examination volition exist administered at the end of the rotation. Final grades will be based upon students clinical service performance, and utilize a pass/fail system rather than the clinical grading rubric used in other M3/M4 clinical experiences.  Completion of an on-line College of Medicine "Last Course Evaluation" is required earlier receiving a final grade.

Authoritative Information

Program Number: SPEC 714

Location: JBVA/UICMC/ACMC

Program Director: Yasaman Kianirad, Physician – [email protected]

Associate Director:Yara Mikhaeil-Demo, MD – [email protected]

Program Coordinator: Jeannette Hernandez – [e-mail protected]

Phone: 312-996-16635 Fax: 312-413-1388

Elapsing: 2 Weeks

Nighttime Call: Sites may crave it

Weekends: Sites may require it

Students Accepted: 10 at UICMC, four at JBVA, 5 at ACMC (this number change)

Housestaff Used as Faculty: No

Lectures/Conferences/Faculty Contact: 10-15

Laboratory/Independent Study: Not required, research opportunities available

Outpatient: Varies per site

Inpatient: Varies per site

Total Hours/Calendar week: 40

Click here to link to the Function of Student Affairs Web Site to view the Reporting Instructions for Neurology.

Updated:  8/25/16