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Eligible: Enrichment Only
Months Offered: all
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.
Category: Clinical
Classification: 4 Weeks/2 weeks
Contact: Clerkship Coordinator, Regional Coordinator
Eligible: Enrichment Only
Months Offered: all
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.
Category: Clinical
Classification: 4 Weeks/2 weeks
Contact: Clerkship Coordinator, Regional Coordinator
Eligible: Enrichment Only
Months Offered: all
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.
Category: Clinical
Classification: 4 Weeks/2 weeks
Contact: Clerkship Coordinator, Regional Coordinator
Eligible: Enrichment Only
Months Offered: all
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.
Category: Clinical
Classification: 4 Weeks/2 weeks
Contact: Clerkship Coordinator, Regional Coordinator
Eligible: Clerkship +
Months Offered: all
Note: this course is currently offered only on the Athens campus.
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.
Category: Clinical
Classification: 4 Weeks/2 weeks
Contact: Clerkship Coordinator, Regional Coordinator
Eligible: Clerkship +
Months Offered: all
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.)
Category: Clinical
Classification: 4 Weeks/2 weeks
Contact: Clerkship Coordinator, Regional Coordinator
Eligible: Clerkship +
Months Offered: all
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.
Category: Clinical
Classification: 4 Weeks/2 weeks
Contact: Clerkship Coordinator, Regional Coordinator
Eligible: Enrichment Only
Months Offered: all
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.
Category: Clinical
Classification: 4 Weeks/2 weeks
Contact: Clerkship Coordinator, Regional Coordinator
Eligible: Enrichment Only
Months Offered: all
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.
Category: Clinical
Classification: Off-Campus
Contact: Clerkship Coordinator
Eligible: Enrichment only
Months Offered: all
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.
Category: Clinical
Classification: 4 Weeks/2 weeks
Contact: Clerkship Coordinator, Regional Coordinator
Eligible: Enrichment Only
Months Offered: all
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.
Category: Clinical
Classification: 4 Weeks/2 weeks
Contact: Clerkship Coordinator
Eligible: Clerkship +
Months Offered: all
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.
Category: Clinical
Classification: 4 Weeks
Contact: Clerkship Coordinator
Eligible: Enrichment Only
Months Offered: all
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: Application period is open February 3rd – March 31st for 2020-2021
rotations. https://www.cdc.gov/epielective/
Category: Clinical
Classification: 2 weeks
Contact: Athens Regional Coordinator
Eligible: Enrichment Only
Months Offered: all
Note: this course is currently offered only on the Athens campus.
Course Description: Quality care of geriatric patients requires a knowledge base and skill set which are acquired throughout medical training. The goals of this 2-week rotation are as follows: 1. To expose medical students to a varied population of older adults in settings ranging from ambulatory care, to home care, to assisted living, to Palliative and Hospice care. 2. To further learning of skills needed to care for older patients in a variety of settings. 3. To further the development of a working biopsychosocial knowledge of the issues involved in caring for the elderly frail population.
Category: Clinical
Classification: 4 Weeks/2 Weeks
Contact: Clerkship Coordinator, Regional Coordinator
Eligible: All Months
Months Offered: All
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.
Category: Clinical
Classification: 4 Weeks
Contact: Clerkship Coordinator, Regional Coordinator
Eligible: All
Months Offered: All
Note: this course is currently offered only in Albany.
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.
Category: Clinical
Classification: 4 Weeks/2 Weeks
Contact: Clerkship Coordinator, Regional Coordinator
Eligible: All
Months Offered: All
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.
