Upper Peninsula Health Education Corporation

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Hospitalist - Advanced Medicine Sub-I
MED 628

Prerequisite: Fourth year medical students who have successfully completed their Internal Medicine clerkship. Availability is limited.

Objectives:

• Become proficient in the comprehensive evaluation/physical exam skills for critically ill hospitalized patients.
• Be familiar with the interpretation of laboratory, procedural and diagnostic data as it relates to critically ill patients.

Students function as an intern-equivalent on a critical care team with an attending physician. Students round daily with the physician and have the opportunity to perform procedures common to the critical care unit. Call is strongly suggested. Some evening and night shifts will most likely be required.

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