VCOM College Catalog and Student Handbook

Emphasis is placed on the principles of comprehensive, patient-centered care across the lifespan, preventive medicine, chronic disease management, osteopathic principles and practice, clinical documentation, and self-directed learning. Students complete assigned readings, online learning modules, case-based exercises, and assessments designed to reinforce the knowledge and skills essential to the practice of family medicine. • (MED 8040) Clinical Internal Medicine I: 4 credit hours The Internal Medicine rotation primarily occurs in the hospital setting. However, the rotation may occur where hospital medicine is predominate but mixed with a smaller amount ambulatory medicine experiences such as with faculty who are hospitalists or “house medicine” if working with a residency program. Regardless of setting have the goal of introducing the most common conditions patients are cared for by their internal medicine physician in the acute care setting. In this setting, students learn to diagnose and manage common acute medical conditions that are present in both the inpatient settings. Medical students must learn to discriminate emergent conditions from non-emergent ones. Students should begin to acquire the essential knowledge to practice cost effective health care and standards of care. • (MED 8045) Internal Medicine I Modules: 1 credit hour The course evaluates students’ acquisition of foundational internal medicine knowledge through structured didactic activities, clinical encounter and procedure logging, and a discipline-specific end-of-rotation examination. Emphasis is placed on the diagnosis and management of common adult medical conditions, clinical reasoning, osteopathic principles and practice, clinical documentation, and self-directed learning. Students complete assigned readings, online learning modules, case-based exercises, and assessments designed to strengthen the medical knowledge and critical thinking skills essential to the practice of internal medicine. • (MED 8050) Clinical Internal Medicine II: 4 credit hours This Internal Medicine rotation is most often completed in a setting that includes both hospital acute care medicine and ambulatory care medicine experiences. All experiences, regardless of setting have the goal of the most common medical conditions not seen or covered in the Internal Medicine I rotation; therefore, the IM II rotation varies by regional site. To avoid redundancy, reading topics are removed where they are also covered in Internal Medicine I or Family Medicine. In this setting, students learn to diagnosis and manage the most common acute and chronic medical conditions that are present in both the inpatient and outpatient setting. This rotation may be general medicine or specialty based as long as it includes an adequate number of general medicine case exposures. Students must also learn to discriminate emergent conditions from non-emergent ones. Students should begin to acquire the essential knowledge to practice cost effective health care and standards of care. • (MED 8055) Internal Medicine II Modules: 1 credit hour The course evaluates students’ acquisition of foundational internal medicine knowledge through structured didactic activities, clinical encounter and procedure logging, and a discipline-specific end-of-rotation examination. Emphasis is placed on the diagnosis and management of common adult medical conditions, clinical reasoning, osteopathic principles and practice, clinical documentation, and self-directed learning. Students complete assigned readings, online learning modules, case-based exercises, and assessments designed to strengthen the medical knowledge and critical thinking skills essential to the practice of internal medicine. • (MED 8070) Clinical Pediatrics: 4 credit hours The Pediatric rotation is meant to be primarily done in the Pediatric ambulatory setting learning well child visits, the most common urgent illnesses requiring care, and to distinguish emergent care needs. The experience may include newborn care in the nursery setting and exposure to hospitalized pediatric patients where possible. The core pediatric experience; however, is to cover those conditions most often cared for by the Pediatric primary care physician. To avoid redundancy, topics are removed where they are also covered in Family Medicine. In this setting students learn to diagnose and manage common acute medical conditions and to provide preventive health care in the pediatric population. Students must also learn to discriminate emergent conditions from non-emergent ones in children. Students should begin to acquire

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