VCOM College Catalog and Student Handbook

• (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 student must complete a minimum of 20 internal medicine reading assignments and/or clinical modules that will cover those items most often seen in the Internal Medicine setting (both inpatient and outpatient). Each module should take approximately one to two hours to complete. • (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 assigned 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 student must complete a minimum of 20 internal medicine reading assignments and clinical modules that will cover those items most often seen in the Internal Medicine setting (both inpatient and outpatient not including those in 8345). Each module should take approximately one to two hours to complete. • (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 the essential knowledge to practice cost effective health care and standards of care. Students who have a strong interest in Pediatrics will receive further hospital exposure by choosing pediatric medical selectives in the fourth year. • (MED 8075) Pediatric Modules: 1 credit hour The student must complete a minimum of 20 pediatric medicine reading assignments and clinical modules (cases) that cover those items most often seen in the pediatric setting (both inpatient and outpatient). Each module should take approximately one to two hours to complete.

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