4th Year Curriculum

Electives

722 Acting Internship In Family Medicine - Inpatient

The goal of the inpatient experience is to allow the fourth-year medial student to accept responsibility for the planning and execution of ongoing care of hospitalized patients, evaluate patients in the emergency room to determine if hospitalization is necessary and to perform the duties of an admitting physician.  The student will work as a member of the family medicine inpatient service team and will remain in the hospital until the days' work is completed.  The student will have one weekend free.  Three weekends will be spent working with the inpatient team.  On the first day of the rotation the student will arrive at the Family and Community Medicine office  (H1619) for a half-day orientation. (Students MUST contact the Family & Community Medicine office of Predoctoral Education for approval BEFORE registering for this elective.) 

722 Acting Internship In Family Medicine - Outpatient

The outpatient goal is to allow the fourth year medical student to actively manage a group of patients seen in an office or clinic setting as well as managing the care for hospitalized patients of the clinic or office.  This experience will consist of mainly office or clinic based patient population but will also include hospital rounding on patients admitted to the hospital from the practice or site.  On the first day of the rotation the student will arrive at the Family and Community Medicine office (H1619) for a half-day of orientation. (Students MUST contact the Family & Community Medicine office of Predoctoral Education for approval BEFORE registering for this elective.) 

796 Individual Studies (1-15 credits)

Creative projects, including non-thesis research, that are supervised on an individual basis and that fall outside the scope of formal courses. Prerequisite: limited to PSU COM medical students by individual arrangement and approval through the Department of Family and Community Medicine. (Students MUST contact the Family & Community Medicine office of Predoctoral Education for approval BEFORE registering for this elective.) 

797 Special Topics (1-15 credits)

Opportunity for students to create a family medicine related experience that meets their individual needs. Areas such as advanced training in clinical decision making, interpersonal communication skills, role of the family in health, community health, rural health, ambulatory care analysis, clinical nutrition, sports medicine, geriatrics, primary care research, and other topics may be used to organize a family medicine special topics elective. Prerequisite: limited to PSUCOM medical students by individual arrangement and approval through the Department of Family and Community Medicine. (Students must contact the Family & Community Medicine office of Predoctoral Education for approval before registering for this elective.)