Upper Peninsula Health Education Corporation

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Infectious Disease Elective
MED 618

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 new patients with infectious diseases.
• Understand the interpretation of laboratory, procedural and diagnostic data as it relates to infectious diseases.

Students are assigned to an infectious disease specialist who will work up consultations and round daily. This elective is done in the inpatient setting.

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