Ward Medicine Subinternship

Director:  Jeffrey Mulhern, MD

Duration:   4 weeks
Students per month:   1

This is a general medical subinternship with major student responsibility for the care of hospitalized patients with acute medical illness.  As a member of the ward team (working with a teaching attending, supervising resident and either one or two interns), the student will admit new patients during the day, write up and present these cases to the teaching attending physician, and be directly responsible for all diagnostic procedures and management decisions relating to these cases.  The student will write all orders and progress notes.

At night the student will be part of the coverage team that handles acute medical problems on all hospitalized medical patients as well as taking new admissions.  Considerable experience with diagnostic and therapeutic procedures can be expected.  The subintern will learn to work efficiently and rapidly and to trust his/her clinical skills.  As a result, the student will be much better prepared to accept the work load and responsibilities of internship.

In addition to direct patient care responsibilities, the subintern actively participates in daily work rounds, presents cases and teaching rounds (four times each week) and will have an opportunity to attend Medical Grand Rounds and the daily subspecialty conferences.  Faculty supervision provides ample opportunity for one-on-one teaching.  Participating in "Morning Report" sessions is encouraged.  Finally, an optional weekly half day outpatient clinic session can be arranged for interested students.