This selective will introduce the concept of individualized medicine, healthcare that partners the latest in genomic and molecular science with data and technologies to personalize care for each patient.
The Infectious Diseases selective consists of daily hospital rounds with bedside teaching, patient workups and management, and attendance at infectious diseases education lectures. Students are expected to make daily rounds with the consultant and residents on the service. They perform many of the duties of an internal medicine resident while under close supervision by a resident in internal medicine and a fellow in infectious diseases.
The experience will include history taking, physical examination, review and interpretation of pertinent laboratory data, presenting information and reading of pertinent information from the available literature.
The infectious diseases selective consists of daily hospital rounds with bedside teaching, patient workups and management, and attendance at infectious diseases education lectures. Students are expected to make daily rounds with the consultant and residents on the service.
Students will shadow Infectious Diseases attending, residents and fellows on the inpatient teaching service observing a wide variety of infectious diseases in hospitalized patients. Throughout the week students will attend all didactic teaching sessions and conferences.
The Inpatient Child and Adolescent Psychiatry (CAP) Patient Exposure selective provides preclerkship medical students with an opportunity to explore the interpersonal dynamics between CAP patients and healthcare providers while learning about mental health through the eyes of the patients.
Learn about the various aspects of Integrative Medicine from physicians, acupuncturists, massage therapists, lifestyle medicine, and yoga providers, including how to integrate this with medical practice, and what the role of the Integrative Medicine practitioner is in today’s medical model.
Students will spend time with physicians, acupuncturists, massage therapists, lifestyle medicine providers, and yoga providers while performing online training to understand the role of the Integrative Medicine practitioner in today’s medical model.
Biomedical informatics is an interdisciplinary field that studies the effective uses of biomedical data, information, and knowledge for scientific inquiry, problem solving and decision making, motivated by efforts to improve human health. Learn more about this exciting field in this selective.
With the increasing utilization of technology in the workplace, future physicians have an increasing need to understand computer programming basics. This selective would provide students with an introduction to Python through a hands-on project-based approach.