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STP2369 INTERDISCIPLINARY EXPERIENCES FOR PATIENT UNDERSTANDING
Department Campus Huntsville
Course Type(s) Special Topic Facility
Course Director DAVID L BRAMM, MD Enrollment Limit 3
Contact ANNA COTTINGHAM Enrollment Minimum 1
Email acottingham@uabmc.edu Address
Birmingham, AL
Phone (256) 551-4660 Fax
Weeks
Normally Offered
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Prerequisites * * * WRITTEN APPROVAL REQUIRED * * * NO PREREQUISITES NEEDED. 
Specific Clerkship Prerequisites:
Visiting Students
No LCME students accepted.
No osteopathic students accepted.
Course Description To expose students to interdisciplinary fields their primary care patients often use. The students will rotate through the experiences - one per day - for shifts of 4-6 hours. They will only be in the same experience on the day of the health check-up clinic. Experiences are: Ambulance ride-along; InpatientPhysical Therapy; Hospital discharge planning; Dental free clinic; health fair for low-income elderly.
Where To Report Huntsville Regional Medical Campus, Room 358, 8AM
Requirements *Physical Therapy – report to Huntsville Hospital PT at 7 a.m. to do rounds; generally finished by
about 12 noon but stay as long as the rounds are being made.
*Dental Free Clinic- open from 9:00 a.m. – 3:00 p.m., stay entire shift.
*Discharge Planning with Social Worker at Huntsville Hospital – 8:00 a.m. to 3:00 p.m.
*Ambulance ride alongs with HEMSI – either 7:30 a.m. – 1:00 p.m. or 3:30 p.m. – 9:00 p.m.
*Health check-up clinic at Johnson Towers, 8:30 a.m. – 12:30 p.m.
Evaluation The student will make a written report on the "experience" that their assigned "patient" had with these five rotations.
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