Course Catalog

 
STP2357 OUTPATIENT INTERNAL MEDICINE
Department MEDICINE Campus Huntsville
Course Type(s) Special Topic Facility
Course Director JESSE FAULK, MD Enrollment Limit 1
Contact JESSE FAULK, MD Enrollment Minimum 1
Email jfaulk1@uabmc.edu Address Department of Internal Medicine, UAB Heersink School of Medicine, Huntsville Campus
301 Governors Dr. SW
Huntsville, AL 35801
Phone (256) 551-4611 Fax
Weeks
Normally Offered
See Offering Dates		 17-17, 44-44
Prerequisites NO PREREQUISITES AVAILABLE. CONTACT DEPARTMENT. 
Specific Clerkship Prerequisites:
Visiting Students
No LCME students accepted.
No osteopathic students accepted.
Course Description The goal of this course is to give the medical student perspective on how to care for adult patients in an Internal Medicine clinic at the UAB Huntsville campus. This course will allow the student to practice taking histories and performing physical examinations on complex patients while also presenting to the clinical faculty and understanding how to develop an appropriate managerial plan. The student will also get a broad overview of caring for a healthy adult, including age-appropriate screening examinations, vaccination schedule, and advance care planning discussion. The student will also be able to see how a Chronic Care Management system can be used to help in treatments of patients with complext disease processes along with complex social barriers.
Where To Report Per email.
Requirements Students will work with attending physicians and housestaff in the UAB Huntsville Internal Medicine Clinic while seeing patients (8:30 AM - 12 PM M-F; 1:30 PM - 5 PM M, T, TH). They will participate in ambulatory didactics on Thursday noon and present a brief topic presentation (topic to be determined based on topics seen in clinic).
Evaluation Pass/Fail: based on attending physician evaluation of student performance in Internal Medicine Clinic
Notes