Course Catalog

 
28-490 RHEUMATOLOGY
Department MEDICINE Campus Birmingham
Course Type(s) Other AI-Ambulatory, Elective AI Facility UAB Medical Center
Course Director AMANDA ALEXANDER, MD Enrollment Limit 1
Contact PATRICIA A TAYLOR Enrollment Minimum 1
Email rheumtraining@uabmc.edu Address FOT 837, zip 3408
Phone (205) 996-5602 Fax (205) 934-4198
Weeks
Normally Offered
See Offering Dates		 1-4, 5-8, 9-12, 13-16, 22-25, 28-31, 32-35, 36-39, 45-48, 49-52
Prerequisites Successful completion of Internal Medicine Clerkship. 
Specific Clerkship Prerequisites: Medicine, Family Medicine, Neurology, Obstetrics/Gynecology, Pediatrics, Psychiatry, Surgery
Visiting Students
No LCME students accepted.
No osteopathic students accepted.
Course Description This course provides the student an opportunity to gain experience in an inpatient rheumatology consultation setting and ambulatory clinics. The student will work primarily with the faculty in outpatient rheumatology clinics at Cooper Green Hospital and Kirklin Clinic as well as inpatient rheumatology consultation service that provides consultative services within the entire UAB Medical Center complex, VA Hospital, and Cooper Green Hospital. Students will participate in the Division of Clinical Immunology and Rheumatology weekly Journal Club, Rheumatology Grand Rounds, and monthly clinic for children with rheumatic diseases. OBJECTIVES: (1) Improve the student's skill of joint examination, techniques of joint aspiration and injection, and the examination of joint fluid (2) Acquire knowledge related to therapeutics, laboratory and imaging evaluation, pain management, physical therapy employed in the care of patients with rheumatic disease
Where To Report Office of course contact, FOT 837, unless ortherwise noted per email sent to student advising them to report to the clinic.
Requirements See Course Description
Evaluation Pass/Fail
Notes Primer on Rheumatic Disease provided. Prior to matriculation date, call course contact to receive instructions on where to report.

This course accepts only visiting students from a UAB Affiliated school. Approval required.