Registrar

Department Website: APG

Course #: ATR 4110 Neuroanatomy Clerkship

Duration: 4 weeks (One Block/Round)

Hours: 5 hours

Grading: Pass/Fail

Course Description: This course provides the opportunity for students to carry out integrated review of head & neck anatomy with functional neuroanatomy. Practical application of anatomical knowledge in relation to clinical medicine is stressed. Students enrolled in this clerkship are encouraged to participate as teaching assistants for Head and Neck Anatomy and/or Neuroanatomy in the Preclerkship Neuroscience Module, to include face-to-face laboratory teaching, prosection preparation, organizing and delivering small group review sessions and participating in faculty reviews. Learning activities include independent cadaver dissection of the head & neck region, dissection of a preserved human brain, and study of histological specimens and review of radiological images. Interactive e-learning modules on Anatomy, Radiology and Histology support this process.

Comments: Participation must be approved in advance by Dr. David Mears (David.Mears@USUHS.edu). Early sign-up is recommended since the number of participants may be limited.

Course Location: USUHS (Anatomical Teaching Laboratory)

Course #: ATR 4140 Anatomy Teaching Elective

Department: Surgery and/or APG department 

Duration: 4 weeks (One Block/Round) or 8 weeks (Two Blocks/Rounds)

Hours: 5 hours per Block/Round

Grading: Pass/Fail

Course Description: Students will assist Course Director and the Anatomy/Surgical Faculty members in teaching anatomy in the School of Medicine First-Year and Second-Year Gross Anatomy Courses. The lectures are held in Lecture Hall E and the labs are held in the Anatomical Teaching Laboratory, USUHS (Ground Floor). The senior student participates as a junior faculty member, teaching cadaver dissections to the first-year medical students, performing prosections, creating teaching material, leading small group reviews, and presenting prosections to the faculty members and their classmates – all under the supervision of the anatomy/surgical faculty members.

Comments: Participation must be approved in advance by Dr. Guinevere Granite (Guinevere.Granite@USUHS.edu) or Dr. David Mears (David.Mears@USUHS.edu). Early sign-up is recommended since the number of participants may be limited. Students wishing to enroll in the 8 week option MUST register in each respective Block/Round.

Course Location: USUHS (Anatomical Teaching Laboratory)

Course #: ATR 4150 Forensic Anthropology 

Department: Surgery 

Duration: 4 weeks (One Block/Round)

Hours: 5 hours

Grading: Pass/Fail

Course Description: This course is an introduction to the application of forensic anthropology. The aim is to understand how anthropologists apply scientific principles and processes to the collection and analysis of skeletal evidence. Topics include anthropology within the context of forensic investigations, human skeletal biology, and research methods, including analyzing bone trauma, pathology, and taphonomy. Anticipated initial course would be offered to up to 20 students during their fourth year. Potential student interest would include pathology, radiology, orthopedics, and any other students with an interest in forensics. This course can be beneficial to military surgeons and medical practitioners who are involved in disaster recovery and combat- related injuries/fatalities. It can provide them with a better understanding of osteology, bone trauma and pathology.

Course Outcomes: After completing this course, students should be able to:

• Apply scientific principles and processes to the collection and evaluation of evidence
• Analyze evidence and case details and recommend solutions using appropriate quantitative and qualitative anthropological and statistical methods
• Accurately and effectively communicate their findings using appropriate terminology and format

Comments: Please contact Dr. Guinevere Granite (Guinevere.Granite@USUHS.edu) with interest in the course. Early sign-up is recommended since the number of participants may be limited.

Course Location: USUHS (Anatomical Teaching Laboratory)

Department: Surgery

Duration: 4 weeks (One Block/Round)

Hours: 5 hours

Grading: Pass/Fail

Course Description: This course focuses on anatomical variations encountered throughout the human body. Anatomical variations are frequently encountered by clinicians and surgeons.

Knowledge of human anatomical variations is critical for patient treatment. The understanding of anatomical variations obtained from this course can assist in decreasing the risk of iatrogenic injuries during surgical intervention and improve diagnosis ability and accuracy. The aim of the course is to educate students on the common and uncommon anatomical variations associated with their anatomical area of interest, i.e. neuroanatomy, cardiovascular anatomy, gastrointestinal anatomy, reproductive anatomy, or musculoskeletal anatomy. Students will have different lecturers depending on their anatomical area of interest that will present anatomical variations and how diagnosis is normally obtained. Students will also dissect human cadavers in their anatomical area of interest. Dissection of the region may result in finding of variations covered in the course or at minimum, provide review of the normal anatomy of the region. Anticipated initial course would be offered to up to 20 students during their fourth year. Potential student interest would include surgery, pathology, radiology, orthopedics, and any other students with an interest in anatomical variations.

Course Outcomes: After completing this course, students should be able to:

• Identify anatomical variations in their anatomical area of interest
• Diagnose any related symptomology caused by the anatomical variation(s)
• Confidently dissect the anatomical area of interest, knowing normal vs. abnormal anatomy in that region

Comments: Please contact Dr. Guinevere Granite (Guinevere.Granite@USUHS.edu) with interest in the course. Early sign-up is recommended since the number of participants may be limited.

Course Location: USUHS (Anatomical Teaching Laboratory)

Course #: ATR 4780 Advanced Anatomy - Cadaver Dissection Review

Department: Dept of Anatomy, Physiology, and Genetics (APG)

Duration: 4 weeks (One Block/Round) or 8 weeks (Two Blocks/Rounds)

Hours: 5 hours per Block/Round

Grading: Honors/Pass/Fail

Course Description: The student performs independent cadaver dissections on a preserved cadaver under the supervision of Dr. Guinevere Granite. The elective provides experiences that are appropriate for an upcoming internship or residency. The goal is to review pertinent anatomy and other skills that are needed in PGY1. The elective can be tailored to the individual student’s choice of specialty or subspecialty.

Comments: Participation must be approved in advance by Dr. Guinevere Granite (Guinevere.Granite@USUHS.edu). Early sign-up is recommended since the number of participants is limited. Students wishing to enroll in the 8 week option MUST register for this course in each respective Block/Round.

Course Location: USUHS (Anatomical Teaching Laboratory)

Department Website: ANE

The following is not an exhaustive list of anesthesia offerings as new electives are currently being added to the curriculum.  Please check the USU Anesthesia Department webpage or contact Kellie Nealeigh (Kellie.Nealeigh.ctr@usuhs.edu) for additional courses.     

Course #: ANR 4200 Anesthesia Clerkship (Class of 2021 Post-Clerkship Course Only)

Duration: 4 weeks

Hours: 5 hours

Grading: Honors/Pass/Fail

Experience: 2 wks ANE, 1 wk pain, 1 wk ICU

Course Description: During this clerkship students interact with staff from several surgical and non-surgical specialties.  Students are introduced to and participate in pre-, peri-, and postoperative patient evaluations while accounting for co-existing diseases and conditions that affect the management of the surgical patient.  Students are taught critical technical skills required of all physicians, including airway management and intravenous catheter placement, along with the use of physiologic monitoring.  Students gain exposure to interventional procedures and the bio-psycho-social model of pain, and participate in multidisciplinary pain management for patients with acute, chronic, and cancer pain in the outpatient and inpatient setting.

NOTE: Can be taken as an MS3 or an MS4.  Fulfills the graduation requirement.

Sites:  WRNMMC, NMCSD, SAMMC, TAMC, and Fort Belvoir

Course #: ANR 4202 Anesthesia Selective (Class of 2021 Post-Clerkship Course Only)

Duration: 4 weeks

Hours: 5 hours

Grading: Honors/Pass/Fail

Experience: 4 wks in the OR

Course Description: Students are involved in the perioperative care of patients undergoing anesthesia and surgery.  This selective will introduces students to a systematic approach of perioperative evaluation while high-lighting co-existing diseases of particular concern to the surgical patient.  Critical technical skills required of all physicians, including airway management and intravenous catheter placement, will be taught along with the use of physiologic monitoring that are used in many specialties.

NOTE: Can be taken as an MS3 or an MS4.  Fulfills the graduation requirement.

Sites: Bremerton, Elin, Camp Lejeune, Fort Belvoir, Fort Bliss/WBAMC, Fort Bragg, Fort Hood, Jacksonville, Korea, MAMC, Nellis, Okinawa, Pensacola, Portsmouth, NMCSD, SAMMC, TAMC, WRNMMC

Course #: ANR 4205 Anesthesia and Perioperative Care for Military Physicians (Class of 2022 Post-Clerkship Course Only)

Duration: 4 weeks (One Block/Round) 

Hours: 5 hours

Grading: Honors/Pass/Fail

Experience: 4 wks on Anesthesia Service

NOTE: Can be taken as an MS3 or an MS4. Fulfills the graduation requirement.

Course Description: This course introduces students to anesthesiology and focuses on skills required of every military physician such as airway management and IV catheter placement.  Students will spend the majority of their time in the operating room but will also be exposed to other perioperative medicine locations.  Utilizing and integrating their understanding of physiology, pharmacology and pathology, students will join the anesthesia team as they safely guide patients through surgery.  Students are evaluated with a multiple choice final exam, graded observed patient encounters and by their site director’s final evaluation of performance.      

Sites: Bremerton; Eglin; Camp Lejeune; Fort Belvoir; Fort Bliss; Fort Bragg; Fort Hood; Jacksonville; Madigan; Nellis; Portsmouth; Naval Medical Center, San Diego; San Antonio Military Medical Center; Tripler; Walter Reed

Course #: ANR 4220 Chronic Pain Elective

Duration: 4 weeks (One Block/Round) 

Hours: 5 hours

Grading: Pass/Fail

Prerequisite: Successful completion of ANR 4200 or ANR 4202 PRIOR to taking this rotation (Class of 2021); Successful completion of ANR 4205 PRIOR to taking this rotation (Class of 2022)

NOTE: Does not fulfill the graduation requirement.

Course Description: Students will be involved in the care of patients in the pain management clinic. They will be responsible for supervised evaluation of new and established patients. They will participate in performing appropriate regional conduction blocks, and developing outpatient treatment regimens. In addition, they will assist with inpatient consults.

Sites: WRNMMC; Portsmouth; SAMMC

Course #: ANR 4222 Expanded Anesthesia Experience- Anesthesia Clerkship (Class of 2021 Post-Clerkship Course Only)

Duration: 4 weeks

Hours: 5 hours

Grading: Pass/Fail

Experience: 2 wks ANE, 1 wk pain, 1 wk ICU

Prerequisite: Successful completion of ANR 4200 or ANR 4202 PRIOR to taking this rotation

Course Description: This MS4 clerkship experience is designed to build upon students’ past Anesthesia clerkship experience(s), providing them with greater exposure to, and a stronger foundation in, Anesthesia.  This clerkship experience mirrors the ANR 4200 Clerkship experience and responsibilities, except there is no USUHS exam component at the end of the clerkship experience.

NOTE: This course does not fulfill the graduation requirement.

Sites: WRNMMC, NMCSD, SAMMC, TAMC, and Fort Belvoir

Course# ANR 4223 Expanded Anesthesia Experience- Anesthesia Selective

Duration: 4 weeks (One Block/Round) 

Hours: 5 hours

Grading: Pass/Fail

Experience: 4 wks in the OR

Prerequisite: Successful completion of ANR 4200 or ANR 4202 PRIOR to taking this rotation (Class of 2021); Successful completion of ANR 4205 PRIOR to taking this rotation (Class of 2022)

Course Description: This MS4 clerkship experience is designed to build upon students’ past Anesthesia clerkship experience(s), providing them with greater exposure to, and a stronger foundation in anesthesia.  Students are expected to perform airway management and place IV catheters with minimal supervision.  In addition, students will be expected to create complete anesthetic plans for surgical patients. By the end of this rotation students will be prepared to begin a residency in anesthesiology.

NOTE: Does not fulfill the graduation requirement.

Sites: Bremerton; Eglin; Camp Lejeune; Fort Belvoir; Fort Bliss; Fort Bragg; Fort Hood; Jacksonville; Korea; Madigan; Nellis; Okinawa, Japan; Pensacola; Portsmouth; Naval Medical Center, San Diego; San Antonio Military Medical Center; Tripler; Walter Reed

Course #: ANR 4224 Acute Pain Elective (Class of 2022 Post-Clerkship Course Only)

Duration: 4 weeks (One Block/Round) 

Hours: 5 hours

Grading: Pass/Fail

Prerequisite: Successful completion of ANR 4205 PRIOR to taking this rotation.

NOTE: Does not fulfill the graduation requirement.

Course Description: Students will learn about the management of acute pain patients on this rotation.  Rotation will include time on the acute pain service rounding on post-surgical and acute on chronic pain patients.  They will also observe and assist with pre-operative nerve blocks for surgical patients.  In addition, students will rotate on the anesthesia OB service to learn about neuraxial anesthesia for child birth.    

Sites: WRNMMC

Course #: ANR 4225 Anesthesia Critical Care Elective (Class of 2022 Post-Clerkship Course Only)

Duration: 4 weeks (One Block/Round) 

Hours: 5 hours

Grading: Pass/Fail

Prerequisite: Successful completion of ANR 4205 PRIOR to taking this rotation.

NOTE: Does not fulfill the graduation requirement.

Course Description: Students will spend 4 weeks engaged in the care of critical care patients.  At the end of this rotation, students will have an understanding of the close relationship and coordination required of the operating room and the ICU.  Students will utilize and integrate their understanding of pathophysiology, pharmacology, surgery and anesthesia to care for critically ill patients in the operating room and the intensive care unit.     

Sites: WRNMMC; SAMMC

Department Website: DER

Course #: DMR 4100 Clinical Dermatology

Duration: 4 weeks (One Block/Round) 

Hours: 5 hours

Grading: Pass/Fail

Course Description: Allow students to participate in the care and management of outpatient and inpatient dermatology patients through direct contact with patients under staff supervision. Specific educational techniques may include didactic sessions, conferences led by staff and senior residents, lab demonstrations, audiovisual material, histopathology review, slide presentations, assisting in dermatologic surgery, and case presentations. Some teaching centers will offer additional specialized opportunities such as Mohs surgical procedures, consultant visits, city-wide Grand Rounds, and clinical research.

Objective: Clerkship is designed to teach fundamental principles of pathophysiology, diagnosis, and treatment of skin diseases; and provide exposure to procedural dermatology.

Sites: Walter Reed; Naval Medical Center, San Diego; San Antonio Military Medical Center; VA Medical Center, Washington D.C.; Fort Belvoir; Fort Lewis; Portsmouth; Tripler; Wright Patterson; Jacksonville.

Department Website: FAM

Family Medicine sponsored ACR rotations are available at a wide variety of locations.  Sites, rotations offered and the POC for rotation scheduling can be obtained by visiting the webpage above.

For general questions about rotations and scheduling, please contact the following.

Dr. Thomas Miller, Director of Advanced Clerkship Programs

Phone Number: (301) 319-0736 / thomas.miller@usuhs.edu

Ms. Dalia Solis, FM Clerkship Administrative Coordinator

(301) 295-3634 / dalia.solis@usuhs.edu  

Course # FPR 4017: Maternity Care/Reproductive Health

Duration: 4 weeks (One Block/Round) 

Grading: Pass/Fail

Course Description: Students will gain additional knowledge, skill and procedural expertise in the evaluation and management of patients and families with maternity care/reproductive health issues. Students will actively participate in rounds, lectures and conferences as appropriate.

Sites: Multiple Sites: FAM

Course #: FPR 4018:  Metacognition- Thinking About How You Think

Duration: 4 weeks (One Block/Round) 

Grading: Pass/Fail

Course Description: This 4-week elective uses books from well-known authors to encourage students to examine ways to develop mindfulness in their evolving medical practices. Through reading selected texts, writing reflective papers, and facilitating small groups, the metacognition elective allows post-clerkship medical students to continue developing the habit of thought that is reflective practice.

Site: USUHS

Course #: FPR 4071:  Family Medicine Operational

Duration: 4 weeks (One Block/Round)

Grading: Pass/Fail

Course Description: Students work with family physicians assigned to operational units. Students will gain experience in the clinical, administrative and leadership skills required of a medical officer to effectively function as part of an operational unit.

Sites: Multiple Sites: FAM

Course #: FPR 4076:  Family Medicine Comprehensive Clerkship

Duration: 4 weeks (One Block/Round)  

Grading: Pass/Fail

Course Description: Students will work closely with Family Physician faculty practicing full scope Family Medicine in a variety of settings. While there may be some site variation, students will gain experience with patient care in the outpatient, inpatient, labor & delivery and emergency department settings. A modest amount of overnight call may be a requirement. Students will participate in morning report and clinical conferences. Sites sponsoring these rotations are typically OCONUS or CONUS non-GME training sites.

Sites: Multiple Sites: FAM

Course #: FPR 4110:  Family Medicine Ambulatory

Duration: 4 weeks (One Block/Round)  

Grading: Pass/Fail

Course Description: Students participate in the care of outpatients in the Family Medicine clinic, including acute and chronic and perform outpatient procedures. Students will participate in morning report, the Family Medicine lecture series and clinical conferences. Access to videotaping patient interviews may be available to focus on improving interviewing skills and learning family dynamics.

Sites: Multiple Sites: FAM

Course #: FPR 4130:  Family Medicine Sub-Internship

Duration: 4 weeks (One Block/Round)  

Grading: Honors/Pass/Fail

Course Description: Students will function as an intern. The majority of the rotation will involve inpatient care with a lesser amount in the outpatient, labor and delivery and emergency department. Students will evaluate, admit, work-up and follow inpatients w/various medical, surgical, pediatric & OB/GYN diagnoses. Students will attend and participate in morning report, lecture series and conferences.

Sites: Multiple Sites: FAM

Course #: FPR 4140 Sports Medicine

Duration: 4 weeks (One Block/Round)

Grading: Pass/Fail

Course Description: Students will evaluate, assess & formulate treatment plans for patients with a wide variety of musculoskeletal conditions. Students will master a sequential & thorough exam of the spine and extremities. Students will actively participate in conferences and lectures.

Sites: Multiple Sites: FAM

Course #: FPR 4141: Integrative Medicine

Duration: 4 weeks (One Block/Round)  

Grading: Pass/Fail

Course Description: Students will gain an exposure to Integrative Health -the practice of medicine that reaffirms the importance of the relationship between practitioner and patient, focuses on the whole person, is informed by evidence, and makes use of all appropriate therapeutic approaches, healthcare professionals and disciplines to achieve optimal health and healing. Students will choose 2 to 4 areas of concentration from the following list that includes: Acupuncture, Yoga, Art Therapy, Mind-Body Practices, Chiropractic Care, Nutrition, Animal/Pet Therapy, Behavioral Health in Primary Care, Patient Education, Palliative Care, Sexual Health & Intimacy, Tobacco Cessation.

Sites: USUHS / National Capital Area

Course #: FPR 4150:  Family Medicine-Community Health Care

Duration: 4 weeks (One Block/Round)  

Grading: Pass/Fail

Course Description: Students work primarily with staff at selected agencies/organizations providing community health and social services to underserved populations. Students gain experience in patient assessment, screening, health care education and the administrative challenges of providing basic health care to underserved populations.

Site: USUHS

Course #: FPR 4180: Complementary Medicine-Acupuncture

Duration: 4 weeks (One Block/Round)  

Grading: Pass/Fail

Course Description: Students will gain a basic understanding of acupuncture; learn acupuncture techniques and indications for use in the management of acute and chronic pain conditions. Students will learn techniques that can be applied to selected patient problems in the outpatient and operational settings. Students will be active participants in conferences and lecture series.

Sites: Malcolm Grow Medical Clinic, Andrews AFB

Course #: FPR 4192: Motivational Interviewing and Behavioral Change

Duration: 4 weeks (One Block/Round) 

Grading: Pass/Fail

Course Description: Students will learn basic behavior change strategies and methods to improve motivation for behavioral change in a Family Medicine environment. Throughout the month, students will complete readings, observe behavior change groups, participate in weekly discussions, and develop a paper to synthesize learned information.

Site: USUHS

Course #: FPR 4201: Clinical Informatics

Duration: 4 weeks (One Block/Round)  

Grading: Pass/Fail

Course Description: During this 4 wk rotation students will work with the family physician director and will be exposed to clinical systems, business intelligence, development, IT hardware and training. By the end of the rotation students will understand the basics of Health IT systems and associated processes used by DoD and how to apply that knowledge to patient care.

Sites: Madigan Army Medical Center

Department Website: SOM

Course #: CAP 4000 Capstone Research Project

Duration: 4 weeks (One Block/Round)  (One Block/Round), 8 weeks (Two Blocks/Rounds), 12 week (Three Blocks/Rounds)

Hours: 5 hours per Block/Round

Course Description: The Capstone Program encompasses a diverse group of scholarly activities under 4 broad categories: laboratory research; clinical research; global health and military leadership scholarship, and educational research and scholarship. Most research or other scholarly work should occur within these elective blocks. Students can enter the course code for up to 3 months. Elective months do not have to be in sequence. Each School of Medicine Class has a dedicated Capstone Sakai Website with descriptions of opportunities, a series of short instructional modules explaining the program and administrative requirements, and copies of required forms. Students should gain approval from OSA to take these elective months and coordinate submission of the 3202 scholarly planning form with the Capstone Program Director. At completion a simple Pass/Fail evaluation from the mentor is required.

Sites: USUHS; National Capital Area

Contacts:

Martin Ottolini, MD, Colonel (ret) USAF, MC

Capstone Program Director

Phone Number: (301) 319-4023

martin.ottolini@USUHS.edu

Roberta Mcintyre, Administrator

Phone Number: (301) 295-9939

Roberta.mcintyre@USUHS.edu

CAPSTONE RESEARCH COURSES HAVE PREVIOUSLY INCLUDED:

Cardiology Research Course Description: Provide senior student with the opportunity to perform either basic science or clinical research that may include the development, performance, interpretation of results, and writing of a specific research project by working with investigators and/or technical staff to learn the techniques and the rationale behind the study plans. Goals: While the specific goals will depend on the project and faculty advisor, the primary goal is to expose the student the research method: developing hypotheses, study design, data collection, data analysis, and results. Some students may be able to prepare a short article or abstract for a suitable journal or meeting.

Clinical Pharmacology Research Course Description: Provide senior student with the opportunity to perform either basic science or clinical research that may include the development, performance, interpretation of results, and writing of a specific research project by working with investigators and/or technical staff to learn the techniques and the rationale behind the study plans. Specifically, students are involved in a clinical research project involving experimental therapeutics in the Division of Clinical Pharmacology and Medical Toxicology's Clinical Research Unit.

Goals: While the specific goals will depend on the project and faculty advisor, the primary goal is to expose the student the research method: developing hypotheses, study design, data collection, data analysis, and results. Some students may be able to prepare a short article or abstract for a suitable journal or meeting.

Education Research Course Description: Provide senior student with the opportunity to perform educational research that may include the development, performance, interpretation of results, and writing of a specific research project by working with investigators and/or technical staff to learn the techniques and the rationale behind the study plans. Typically, students may design their own project or participate in ongoing research related to the process of evaluation and modification of educational programs. Goals: While the specific goals will depend on the project and faculty advisor, the primary goal is to expose the student the research method: developing hypotheses, study design, data collection, data analysis, and results. Some students may be able to prepare a short article or abstract for a suitable journal or meeting.

Infectious Disease Research Course Description: Provide senior student with the opportunity to perform either basic science or clinical research that may include the development, performance, interpretation of results, and writing of a specific research project by working with investigators and/or technical staff to learn the techniques and the rationale behind the study plans. Previous clinical trials have included investigational new drugs and biologics relating to infectious disease and biological warfare defense.

Goals: While the specific goals will depend on the project and faculty advisor, the primary goal is to expose the student the research method: developing hypotheses, study design, data collection, data analysis, and results. Some students may be able to prepare a short article or abstract for a suitable journal or meeting.

Department Website: MED

As a fundamental prerequisite for performing any Advanced Clerkship, including Clinics and Consultation electives or Subinternship in the Department of Medicine, the student must have satisfactorily completed the third year core clerkship in internal medicine, unless otherwise so directed, arranged, and approved by the Department of Medicine.

Contacts:

Dr. Ellen Im, Director of Advanced Clerkship Programs

ellen.im@usuhs.edu Phone Number: (301) 295-9903

Ms.Carlotta Sommers, Program Administrator

carlotta.sommers@usuhs.edu  Phone Number: (301)295-9727

I. Clinics and Consultations (C&C) Courses

II. Subinternship Courses

III. Clerkships Courses

IV. Research Opportunities

I. Clinics and Consultation (C&C) Courses

Clinics and Consultation electives provide students with opportunities to expand their knowledge of particular subspecialties, work as consultants, and manage patients primarily in the outpatients setting. Much of a clinician's time is spent in office practice and consultation; these electives allow students to experience those aspects of practice as well as expose them to common diseases rarely seen on internal medicine wards. Students learn specialized history taking and examination skills of a particular subspecialty and learn how and when to use diagnostic tools of that specialty. Students are responsible for initial work-ups and notes as well as follow-up visits. After the initial evaluation of a patient, students present and discuss patients with fellow and staff attending. Each service is responsible for its own schedule of formal talks and rounds in which the students will participate.

The goal of these clerkships is to prepare the students for internship and enable students to serve as managers for their patients. Therefore using the RIME scheme (Reporter- Interpreter- Manager- Educator), students in the advanced clerkships are expected to be competent reporters and interpreters and making movement toward being managers for their assigned patients in order to receive a passing grade. In comparison, third year internal medicine clerks are expected to be competent reporters and making movement toward interpreters to receive a passing grade. Objectives common to all clinics and consultation rotations include the abilities to:

• Present cases (orally and written) that are organized, succinct, and factual
• Longitudinally track patient data using available resources
• Coordinate clinical care with supervising physicians and other health care workers
• Use electronic health records
• Appraise literature and apply it to their assigned patients (Evidence Based Medicine)
• Demonstrates respect, compassion, integrity, and honesty in interactions with patients, family, and health care professionals

Objectives unique to each subspecialty will be outlined under the individual clerkships. These electives are available throughout the year for students from USUHS (blocks 1-12) and other medical students unless otherwise specified.

Course Description, Goals, and Objectives:

Course #: MDR 4400 Cardiology C&C

Duration: 4 weeks (One Block/Round) 

Hours: 5 hours

Grading: Pass/Fail

Course Description: This rotation is designed to evaluate and develop management plans for both outpatients and inpatients with a wide range of cardiovascular disease including congestive heart failure, arrhythmias, valvular heart disease, coronary artery disease, and hypertension. The primary focuses are cardiac history and physical diagnosis; interpretation of EKGs, stress testing, and basic radiographic procedures; preoperative assessment; and outpatient consultation.

Goals: At the end of this elective, senior students will be able create differential diagnoses of common cardiac signs and symptoms, interpret common cardiac diagnostic testing, develop management plans for their assigned patients, and ultimately develop a rationale approach to caring for similar patients in the future (prior to referring patients to an internist or cardiologist).

Unique Objectives:

• Correctly interpret EKGs on assigned patients
• Identify common bradyarrhythmias, tachyarrhythmias, and myocardial ischemia/infarct on EKGs
• Attain fund of knowledge and skills in order to enable the students to initiate care for patients who present with acute chest pain, hypertensive emergencies, and arrhythmias

Sites: WRNMMC, DCVA, Portsmouth, SAMMC, Madigan

Course #: MDR 4490 Hematology/Oncology C&C

Duration: 4 weeks (One Block/Round) 

Hours: 5 hours

Grading: Pass/Fail

Course Description: Working closely with other members of the consult service, clerks will have responsibility for providing initial consultation as well as daily follow-up on their assigned patients. In addition, clerks will see both new and follow-up patients in the outpatient clinic. The focus of this elective is to expose the subintern to a wide variety of hematologic and sold malignancies, their consequences, and effects of therapy as well as the diagnosis, treatment, and management of non-malignant hematologic disorders such as anemia, cytopenias, and coagulation disorders.

Goals: At the end of this elective, senior students will be able create differential diagnoses of common presentations of malignant and hematologic disease, interpret common diagnostic testing (both laboratory and imaging), develop management plans for their assigned patients, and ultimately develop a rationale approach to caring for similar patients in the future (prior to referring patients to an internist or hematologist/oncologist).

Unique Objectives:

• Correctly interpret findings on peripheral blood smears, other laboratory results, and radiographic procedures on their assigned patients
• Development diagnostic and management plans for assigned patients who present with non-malignant hematologic disease (i.e. anemia, cytopenias, coagulation disorders, etc.)
• Develop diagnostic and management plans for their patients who present with signs or symptoms suggestive of an underlying malignancy or have a known malignancy
• Attain fund of knowledge and skills to enable the students to care for their patients with hematologic and malignant disease, including treatment options, management of treatment-induced complications (i.e. pancytopenia, fevers, etc.), and end-of-life issues

Sites: WRNNMC, DCVA, SAMMC, Portsmouth, Madigan

Course #: MDR 4510 Gastroenterology C&C

Duration: 4 weeks (One Block/Round) 

Hours: 5 hours

Grading: Pass/Fail

Course Description: Working closely with other members of the consult service, clerks will have responsibility for providing initial consultation as well as daily follow-up on their assigned patients. In addition, clerks will see both new and follow-up patients in the outpatient clinic. The focus of this elective is to expose the clerk to a wide variety of important disease, such as cirrhosis, malabsorption, peptic ulcer disease, inflammatory bowel disease, pancreatitis, and esophageal dysfunction. The clerk will observe and/or participate in a variety of diagnostic procedures unique to the subspecialty.

Goals: At the end of this elective, senior students will be able create differential diagnoses for common signs and symptoms of gastrointestinal disorders, interpret common diagnostic testing (both laboratory and imaging), develop management plans for their assigned patients, and ultimately develop a rationale approach to caring for similar patients in the future (prior to referring patients to an internist or gastroenterologist).

Unique Objectives:

• Correctly interpret laboratory results and radiographic procedures on their assigned patients
• When possible, observe and/or participate in endoscopic procedures performed on their assigned patients
• Attain fund of knowledge and skills to enable the students to work-up and care for their patients with gastrointestinal bleeding, abdominal pain, nausea and vomiting, and solid tumors of the gastrointestinal tract

Sites: WRNNMC, FBCH, SAMMC, San Diego, DCVA, Madigan

Course #: MDR 4540 Endocrinology C&C

Duration: 4 weeks (One Block/Round)  

Hours: 5 hours

Grading: Pass/Fail

Course Description: Working closely with other members of the consult service, clerks will have responsibility for providing initial consultation as well as daily follow-up on their assigned patients. In addition, clerks will see both new and follow-up patients in the outpatient clinic. The focus is to develop sophistication in history-taking and physical exam skills for recognizing endocrine diseases and become familiar with assaying hormones in the evaluation and management of important endocrine problems such as diabetes mellitus, osteoporosis, and thyroid disease.

Opportunities to evaluate diseases of the pituitary, adrenal, and reproductive system are dependent on the availability of patients.

Goals: At the end of this elective, senior students will be able create differential diagnoses for common signs and symptoms of endocrinologic disorders, interpret common diagnostic testing (both laboratory and imaging), develop management plans for their assigned patients, and ultimately develop a rationale approach to caring for similar patients in the future (prior to referring patients to an internist or endocrinologist).

Unique Objectives:

• Correctly interpret hormonal assays and other laboratory results on their assigned patients
• Attain fund of knowledge and skills to enable the students to work-up and care for their patients with diabetes mellitus, thyroid disease, and osteoporosis

Sites: WRNMMC, DCVA, SAMMC, Tripler

Course #: MDR 4550 Infectious Disease C&C

Duration: 4 weeks (One Block/Round)  

Hours: 5 hours

Grading: Pass/Fail

Course Description: Working closely with other members of the consult service, clerks will have responsibility for providing initial consultation as well as daily follow-up on their assigned patients. In addition, clerks will see both new and follow-up patients in the outpatient clinic. Emphasis is placed on understanding basic pathogenic mechanisms as they relate to patient care and management, principles of antibiotic usage, HIV, and clinical microbiology.

Goals: At the end of this elective, senior students will be able create differential diagnoses for common signs and symptoms suggested of an infectious etiology, interpret common diagnostic testing (both laboratory and imaging), develop management plans for their assigned patients, and ultimately develop a rationale approach to caring for similar patients in the future (prior to referring patients to an internist or infectious diseases physician).

Unique Objectives:

• Correctly interpret laboratory results, microbial cultures, and radiographic procedures to optimize care on their assigned patients
• Develop a rationale use of available antibiotics considering drug cost, side effect profiles, and individual patient data
• Attain fund of knowledge and skills to enable the students to work-up and care for patients with fevers who are immunocompromised or hospitalized, properly evaluate fevers in both the outpatient and inpatient settings, and develop a basic understanding of the use of antiviral agents in the setting of HIV

Sites: WRNNMC, SAMMC, DCVA, San Diego, Landstuhl, Portsmouth, Madigan, NIH

Course #: MDR 4560 Nephrology C&C

Duration: 4 weeks (One Block/Round)  

Hours: 5 hours

Grading: Pass/Fail

Course Description: Working closely with other members of the consult service, clerks will have responsibility for providing initial consultation as well as daily follow-up on their assigned patients. In addition, clerks will see both new and follow-up patients in the outpatient clinic. Emphasis is placed on developing a basic understanding of acute renal failure, chronic renal diseases, electrolyte disorders, acid-base disorders, and hypertension as well as interpretation of urinalyses and other laboratory tests, pathology, and pathogenesis.

Goals: At the end of this elective, senior students will be able create differential diagnoses for common signs and symptoms of nephrologic disease, interpret common diagnostic testing (including urinalyses and other laboratory tests and imaging procedures), develop management plans for their assigned patients, and ultimately develop a rationale approach to caring for similar patients in the future (prior to referring patients to an internist or nephrologist).

Unique Objectives:

• Correctly interpret laboratory results, urinalyses, and radiographic procedures in order to optimize care on their assigned patients
• Develop a rationale use of available hypertensive agents considering drug cost, side effect profiles, and individual patient data
• Attain fund of knowledge and skills to enable the students to work-up and care for patients with acute renal failure, electrolyte disorders, hypokalemia/hyperkalemia, chronic renal failure, and possible adverse drug effects

Sites: WRNMMC, DCVA, San Diego, SAMMC, Portsmouth

Course #: MDR 4570 Pulmonary C&C

Duration: 4 weeks (One Block/Round) 

Hours: 5 hours

Grading: Pass/Fail

Course Description: Working closely with other members of the consult service, clerks will have responsibility for providing initial consultation as well as daily follow-up on their assigned patients. In addition, clerks will see both new and follow-up patients in the outpatient clinic. Emphasis is placed on gaining a more thorough understanding of the broad spectrum of pulmonary disease, chest radiograph interpretation, bronchoscopy observation, interpretation of pulmonary function tests, and management of acute and chronic respiratory disease.

Goals: At the end of this elective, senior students will be able create differential diagnoses of common respiratory signs and symptoms, interpret common laboratory, spirometric and imaging used to diagnose and treat pulmonary disease, develop management plans for their assigned patients, and ultimately develop a rationale approach to caring for similar patients in the future (prior to referring patients to an internist or pulmonologist).

Unique Objectives:

• Correctly interpret laboratory results, microbial cultures, and radiographic procedures to optimize care on their assigned patients
• Develop a rationale use of available medications to treat chronic lung conditions such as asthma and COPD considering drug cost, side effect profiles, and individual patient data
• Attain fund of knowledge and skills to enable the students to work-up and care for patients with respiratory distress, acid-base disorders, lung cancers, pulmonary thromboembolism, and chronic lung disease

Sites: WRNMMC, DCVA, SAMMC, San Diego

Course #: MDR 4580 Rheumatology C&C

Duration: 4 weeks (One Block/Round) 

Hours: 5 hours

Grading: Pass/Fail

Course Description: Through evaluation of patients primarily in the outpatient setting, students will develop skills in history-taking, musculoskeletal examination, interpreting laboratory results, and radiographic interpretation in order to establish a rationale to approach patients with a wide variety of musculoskeletal complaints.

Goals: At the end of this elective, senior students will be able create differential diagnoses of common rheumatic signs and symptoms, interpret common serologic and immunologic testing used to diagnose and treat rheumatic disease, develop management plans for their assigned patients, and ultimately develop a rationale approach to caring for similar patients in the future (prior to referring patients to an internist or rheumatologist).

Unique Objectives:

• Correctly interpret results of serologic and other laboratory tests and radiographic procedures to optimize care on their assigned patients
• Develop a rationale use of available medications to treat pain and inflammation taking into account drug costs, patient demographics, underlying condition, and patient demographics
• Attain fund of knowledge and skills to enable the students to work-up and provide initial care for patients with osteoarthritis, gout and other crystalline disorders, back pain, rheumatoid arthritis, fibromyalgia, soft tissue disorders, and the spondyloarthropathies

Sites: WRNMMC, DCVA, SAMMC, Madigan

Course #: MDR 4590 Allergy C&C

Duration: 4 weeks (One Block/Round) 

Hours: 5 hours

Grading: Pass/Fail

Course Description: Through direct observation and participation primarily in the outpatient setting, students will develop skills in history-taking and interpreting laboratory results in patients with allergic disorders in order to establish a rationale to approach patients with a wide variety of immunologic and allergic diseases.

Goals: At the end of this elective, senior students will be able create differential diagnoses of common allergic signs and symptoms, interpret common immunologic testing in adults and children, develop management plans for their assigned patients, and ultimately develop a rationale approach to caring for similar patients in the future (prior to referring patients to an internist or allergist).

Unique Objectives:

• Correctly interpret diagnostic laboratory and other tests on assigned patients
• Acquire an appreciation of the basic mechanisms of allergic disorders and asthma
• Attain fund of knowledge and skills to enable the students to initiate a diagnostic work-up and management for patients who present with suspected immunodeficiency, apparent drug allergy, anaphylaxis, and asthma

Sites: WRNMMC, SAMMC, FBCH, DCVA

Course #: MDR 4591 Sleep Medicine C&C

Duration: 4 weeks (One Block/Round) 

Hours: 5 hours

Grading: Pass/Fail

Course Description: Working closely with other members of the consult service, clerks will have responsibility for providing initial consultation as well as daily follow-up on their assigned patients. Emphasis is placed on gaining a more thorough understanding of the broad spectrum of sleep medicine to include circadian rhythm disorders, sleep movement disorders, parasomnias, and hypersomnias. There will be an emphasis on proficiency in diagnosing and managing obstructive sleep apnea and insomnia. An introduction to polysomnogram interpretation (both in-lab and home types), actigraphy, overnight pulse oximetry will be provided as part of this rotation. Patients of all ages will be managed. Clinical research is an important part of sleep medicine, and clerks will be encouraged to participate in new or ongoing sleep medicine research.

Goals: At the end of this elective, senior students will be able create differential diagnoses on patients that have common sleep-related symptoms, understand the importance of polysomnography findings, interpret common laboratory tests, and develop management plans for their assigned patients. Ultimately, senior students will be proficient in identifying sleep- related disease symptoms and be able to provide initial treatment of these problems. They will also be able to develop a reasoned approach to caring for similar patients in the future (prior to referring patients to sleep medicine).

Unique Objectives:

• Develop proficiency in identifying signs and symptoms of sleep-related disorders, particularly obstructive sleep apnea and insomnia.
• Correctly interpret data from patients’ history, laboratory and radiologic evaluations, polysomnography and actigraphy and incorporate it in patient management decisions.
• Develop skill in the initial management of sleep-related disorders.
• Participate in clinical research on a sleep medicine-related topic.

Sites: WRNMMC, SAMMC

II. Subinternship Courses

Subinternships in internal medicine are designed to provide senior students with an opportunity to manage acutely ill hospitalized patients under a high degree of supervision. Students will further develop their skills in history taking, physical examination, differential diagnosis, and the day-to-day management of both common and unUSUHSal illnesses. Advanced clerkship students will function with intern-like responsibilities under the direction of a resident and attending physician. In certain subinternships, the student may also work with fellows. Students will provide comprehensive care for their assigned patients including their initial work-up, daily progress notes, and performing procedures under close supervision.

Students may take night and weekend calls. Students will carry the full responsibility for his/her patients and is expected to develop their initiative in identifying issues in patients care and in proposing daily plans for his/her patients.

The goals of the subinternship is two- fold: provide a forum in which students integrate internal medicine teaching from the entire four year curriculum and equip students with new knowledge, skills, and attitudes they will need to excel during internship. Therefore using the RIME scheme (Reporter- Interpreter- Manager- Educator), students on advanced clerkships are expected to be competent reporters and reasonable interpreters (most of the time) and making movement toward being managers for their assigned patients in order to receive a passing grade. To receive an Honors grade, students must demonstrate the ability to be at the Manager/Educator level during the rotation.

Objectives common to all sub-internship rotations include the abilities to:

• Present cases (orally and written) that are organized, succinct, and factual
• Track patient data longitudinally using available resources
• Coordinate clinical care with supervising physicians and other health care workers
• Prioritize daily work to include sign-out lists
• Assess patient decision-making capacity
• Apply pharmacokinetics of common medication
• Compose discharge summaries
• Deliver bad news
• Use electronic health record databases
• Appraise literature and apply it to their assigned patients (Patient centered care)
• Demonstrate respect, compassion, integrity, and honesty in interactions with patients, family, and health care professionals

Objectives unique to each subspecialty will be outlined under the individual clerkships. Subinternships are available throughout the year for students from USUHS and other medical schools unless otherwise specified.

Couse Descriptions, Goals, and Objectives:

Course #: MDR 4420 Cardiology Coronary Care Unit S.I.

Duration: 4 weeks (One Block/Round) 

Hours: 8 hours

Grading: Honors/Pass/Fail

Course Description: This course is designed primarily to care for inpatients. Senior students will function as an intern on the inpatient cardiology team. They will provide comprehensive care for assigned patients including their initial work-up, daily progress notes, interpretation of EKGs and other diagnostic tests, and performing procedures under the supervision of senior members of the team. Senior students will take night and weekend call. The primary focuses recognition and management of arrhythmias, heart failure, and acute coronary artery syndromes.

Goals: At the end of this elective, senior students will be able create differential diagnoses of common cardiac signs and symptoms, interpret common cardiac diagnostic testing, develop diagnostic and management plans for their assigned patients, and ultimately develop a rationale initial approach to caring for similar patients in the future (prior to referring patients to an internist or cardiologist).

Unique Objectives:

• Correctly interpret EKGs on assigned patients
• Identify common bradyarrhythmias, tachyarrhythmias, and myocardial ischemia/infarct on EKGs
• Attain fund of knowledge and skills to enable the students to initiate care for patients who present with acute chest pain, hypertensive emergencies, and arrhythmias

Sites: WRNMMC, SAMMC

Course #: MDR 4440 General Medicine S.I.

Duration: 4 weeks (One Block/Round) 

Hours: 8 hours

Grading: Honors/Pass/Fail

Course Description: This clerkship provides a supervised inpatient experience evaluating and managing major diseases encountered on an inpatient service. Students will serve as a member of the medicine ward team with "intern" level responsibility including taking call, writing initial orders, and providing daily care to their assigned patients. Emphasis will be placed on developing skills necessary to become successful interns.

Goals: At the end of this elective, senior students will be able create differential diagnoses of common adult signs and symptoms of disease, interpret diagnostic testing used in caring for their patients, develop diagnostic and management plans for their assigned patients, and ultimately develop a rationale initial approach to caring for similar patients in the future (prior to referring patients to an internist or other subspecialists).

Unique Objectives:

• Correctly interpret diagnostic studies including laboratory and EKGs on assigned patients
• Attain fund of knowledge and skills to enable the students to initiate care for patients who present with abdominal pain, acute gastrointestinal bleeding, acute pulmonary edema, acute renal failure, altered mental status, arrhythmias, chest pain, electrolyte disorders, fever, glycemic control, hypertensive emergencies, nausea and vomiting, pain management, respiratory distress, shock, and seizures

Sites: WRNMMC, DCVA, SAMMC, Portsmouth, Madigan, San Diego, Tripler, Travis, Wright Patterson, Keesler, William Beaumont, Eisenhower

Course #: MDR 4460 MICU S.I.

Duration: 4 weeks (One Block/Round) 

Hours: 8 hours

Grading: Honors/Pass/Fail

Course Description: This course is designed primarily to care for inpatients. Senior students will function as an intern on the Intensive Care Unit team. They will provide comprehensive care for assigned patients including their initial work-up, daily progress notes, interpretation of EKGs and other diagnostic tests, and performing procedures under the supervision of senior members of the team.

Goals: At the end of this elective, senior students will be able create differential diagnoses of common signs and symptoms in critically ill patients, interpret common diagnostic testing in the ICU, develop management plans for their assigned patients, and ultimately recognize signs and symptoms of critical illness in future patients who require admission in ICUs.

Unique Objectives:

• Correctly interpret diagnostic studies including laboratory and EKGs on assigned patients
• Develop management plans for their patients who present with electrolyte, acid base, and fluid disturbances
• Attain fund of knowledge and skills to enable the students to initiate care for patients who present with acute gastrointestinal bleeding, acute renal failure, arrhythmias, acute chest pain, electrolyte disorders, hypertensive emergencies, respiratory arrest, and shock

Sites: WRNMMC, SAMMC, San Diego, DCVA, NIH, Madigan, Tripler, Landstuhl

Course #: MDR 4500 Hematology/Oncology S.I.

Duration: 4 weeks (One Block/Round) 

Hours: 8 hours

Grading: Honors/Pass/Fail

Course Description: Subinterns will have "intern" level responsibility for managing patients on the inpatient hematology/oncology service and will see both new and follow-up patients in the outpatient clinics. The focus of this elective is to expose the subintern to a wide variety of hematologic and sold malignancies, their consequences, and effects of therapy. The subintern will take night call with their team.

Goals: At the end of this elective, senior students will be able create differential diagnoses of common presentations of malignant and hematologic disease, interpret common diagnostic testing (both laboratory and imaging), develop management plans for their assigned patients, and ultimately develop a rationale approach to caring for similar patients in the future (prior to referring patients to an internist or hematologist/oncologist).

Unique Objectives:

• Correctly interpret findings on peripheral blood smears, other laboratory results, and radiographic procedures on their assigned patients
• Development diagnostic and management plans for assigned patients who present with non-malignant hematologic disease (i.e. anemia, cytopenias, coagulation disorders, etc.)
• Develop diagnostic and management plans for their patients who present with signs or symptoms suggestive of an underlying malignancy or have a known malignancy
• Attain fund of knowledge and skills to enable the students to care for their patients with hematologic and malignant disease, including treatment options, management of treatment-induced complications (i.e. pancytopenia, fevers, etc.), and end-of-life issues

Sites: WRNMMC, SAMMC

III. Clerkship Courses

Clerkships in internal medicine offer similar experiences as subinternship, but are graded Pass/Fail. While they are four weeks in duration, they do not fulfill the School of Medicine’s requirement for a subinternship. However, the amount of primary patient management may be similar to the subinternships. The goals and objectives for clerkships is the same as those for the subinternships. Objectives unique to each subspecialty will be outlined under the individual clerkships. Clerkships are available throughout the year for students from USUHS and other medical schools unless otherwise specified.

Course Descriptions, Goals, and Objectives:

Course #: MDR 4390 Palliative Medicine

Duration: 4 weeks (One Block/Round) 

Hours: 5 hours

Grading: Pass/Fail

Course Description: Provide senior student with the opportunity to participate in home palliative care & pain control for terminally ill patients. 

Goals: Provide multi-disciplined approach to palliative care. Encompasses nursing, social work, pastoral care, volunteers, home health aids and bereavement services. Focus is holistic, addressing medical, psychosocial, and spiritual needs of patients/families. Participates in home visits with the disciplines, attends lectures, and observes output visits.

Site: DCVA

Course #: MDR 4680 Clinical Pharmacology Consults

Duration: 4 weeks (One Block/Round) 

Hours: 5 hours

Grading: Pass/Fail

Course Description: Provide senior student with the opportunity to participate in the clinical pharmacology consultation services. Consultation experience frequently involves drug overdose, adverse drug reactions, and drug pharmacokinetics.

Goals: At the end of this elective, senior students will be able create differential diagnoses of common allergic signs and symptoms, interpret common immunologic testing in adults and children, develop management plans for their assigned patients, and ultimately develop a rationale approach to caring for similar patients in the future (prior to referring patients to an internist or allergist).

Unique Objectives:

• Correctly interpret results of drug levels and other laboratory tests to optimize care on their assigned patients
• Develop a rationale plan for treating common drug overdoses using available nomograms and knowledge of drug pharmacokinetics
• Attain fund of knowledge and skills to enable the students to work-up and provide initial care for patients with drug-induced hepatitis, alcohol intoxication and withdrawal, recreational drug use, and drug poisoning

Site: USUHS

Contacts:

COL Thomas Oliver

Phone Numbers: (301) 295- 0016 or (301) 295-3239.

thomas.oliver@USUHS.edu

Course #: MDR 4690 Geriatric Medicine

Duration: 4 weeks (One Block/Round) 

Hours: 5 hours

Grading: Pass/Fail

Course Description: This rotation provides in-depth exposure to geriatric medicine and gerontology by working closely with faculty and residents. Students may take part in nursing home care, physician house call, and outpatient geriatric evaluation.

Goals: At the end of this elective, senior students will be able create differential diagnoses of common problems affecting the elderly, perform geriatric outpatient assessments, evaluate mental status alterations in the elderly, develop diagnostic and management plans for their assigned patients, and ultimately develop a rationale initial approach to caring for elderly patients in the future (prior to referring patients to geriatrics specialist).

Unique Objectives:

• Correctly interpret laboratory results and radiographic procedures to optimize care on their assigned patients
• Develop a rationale approach to prescribing drugs in the elderly
• Attain fund of knowledge and skills to enable the students to work-up and care for elderly patients who present with dementia, depression, incontinence, falls, polypharmacy, end- of-life issues, and other common disease affecting the elderly

Sites: DCVA

Course #: MDR 4715 Women's Health Clinic

Duration: 4 weeks (One Block/Round) 

Hours: 5 hours

Grading: Pass/Fail

Course Description: Working closely with members of the DCVA Women’s Health clinic and under direction of a participating internist, clerks will have responsibility for evaluating follow-up and new patient care. Clerks will gain exposure to a multi-disciplinary view of women’s health care by participation in related psychiatry, gynecology, endocrinology and primary care aspects of women’s health outpatient care. Students will attend breast tumor board and spend time in review of breast imaging with a radiologist as well as have potential for time in the OR observing gynecologic surgery.

Goals: At the end of this elective, senior students will be able to describe issues in women’s health and illness prevention.

Unique Objectives:

• Identify signs and symptoms of women's health-related diagnoses such as vaginitis, dysfunctional uterine bleeding and pregnancy
• Distinguish military service-specific effects' on female veterans' orthopedic, reproductive and mental health
• Apply clinical practice guidelines in women's health-related diagnoses and preventive care

Site: DCVA

Course #: MDR 4720 General Medicine Clinics

Duration: 4 weeks (One Block/Round) 

Hours: 5 hours

Grading: Pass/Fail

Course Description: Clerks will see follow-up, walk-in, semi-urgent, and 72 hour consultations referred to the internal medicine clinic. While the bulk of the patients will be outpatients, consultations from inpatient services may also be seen while working together with a resident and faculty internist. Clerks are responsible for the complete evaluation and disposition for required follow-up procedures and other diagnostics.

Goals: At the end of this elective, senior students will be able create differential diagnoses of common cardiac signs and symptoms, interpret laboratory and other diagnostic testing, develop management plans for their assigned patients, and ultimately develop a rationale approach to caring for similar patients in the future (prior to referring patients to an internist).

Unique Objectives:

• Correctly interpret diagnostic studies including laboratory and EKGs on assigned patients
• Provide recommendations on surgical patients referred for preoperative assessment
• Attain fund of knowledge and skills to enable the students evaluate patients who present with hypertension, headaches, abdominal pain, acute gastrointestinal bleeding, acute renal failure, altered mental status, arrhythmias, chest pain, electrolyte disorders, fever, glycemic control, nausea and vomiting, pain management, respiratory distress, and seizures

Site: Landstuhl

Course #: MDR 4740 Safety and Quality

Duration: 4 weeks (One Block/Round) 

Hours: 5 hours

Grading: Pass/Fail

Course Description: This four-week elective, organized in two parts, will allow students to build their knowledge of safety and quality. It is usually assumed that by learning how to assess the risk of disease, diagnose disease, and treat patients one intuitively learns how to practice safe, high quality medicine. Unfortunately, physicians make frequent, avoidable errors. Furthermore, they may not appreciate the vital role of the healthcare system in providing a safe medical environment and in promoting high quality care. Students will receive mentorship from the Elective Director, meeting at the start of the elective and at the end of each week at USUHS, typically for one hour. Additionally, students will rotate at Defense Health Headquarters (DHHQ) in Falls Church, VA where they will work closely with the Defense Health Agency (DHA) safety and quality leadership. The mission of this course is to build knowledge of safety and quality, which will increase as learners progress through residency, graduate to independent practice. The ultimate purpose of this course is for the student to become a leader in improving safety and quality.

Goals: At the end of this course, the student will be familiar with key safety and quality issues, at the level of the physician and at the level of the healthcare system. Furthermore, at the end of this course, the student will understand the roles safety and quality play in the practice of medicine.

Unique Objectives:

In the first two weeks, the student will:

• read seminal safety and quality articles,
• learn the most common medical errors, where and when they occur, and how to avoid them, and
• write a paper (no longer than five double-spaced pages) recommending a way that physicians can improve the safety and/or quality of their care.

In the second two weeks, the student will:

• work closely with the Defense Health Agency Safety and Quality leadership in Falls Church, VA,
• learn how the healthcare system detects and corrects safety problems and improves the quality of care, and
• write a paper ( no longer than five double-spaced pages) recommending an improvement project.

Site: Defense Health Agency

Comments: Enrollment is limited to one student per Block/Round.

IV. Research Opportunities

Course Descriptions, Goals, and Objectives:

Course #: MDR 4636 Medical Education Elective

Duration: 4 weeks (One Block/Round) 

Hours: 5 hours

Grading: Pass/Fail

Course Description: The Medical Education Elective provides MS4s with both formal education on teaching, evaluation and curriculum development as well as the opportunity to practice these skills under the mentorship of medical education experts. The course aims to help MS4s build a foundation of medical education knowledge before they embark on medical careers that require participation in education at all levels of training. Students will practice the skills they learn during expert-led, small group didactic sessions by assisting with teaching courses in the pre- clerkship curriculum. These courses include but are not limited to physical exam, medical interviewing, reflective practice, integrated clinical skills, integrated clinical reasoning and MEM curricula.

Goals: To develop senior medical students as medical educators by providing an opportunity to study the theory and methods of medical education and practice learned skills as educators in the underclass pre-clerkship curriculum.

Unique Objectives: By the end of the 4-week curriculum, MS4s will demonstrate their ability to:

• Discuss key foundational theories in medical education
• Employ learned teaching skills in each of the following settings at least weekly
• One-on-one teaching
• Small group sessions
• Large group sessions: Identify underclass student needs and questions, and create at least two concise, clear, reusable resources that address these topics

Site: USUHS

Contacts:

Dr. Patrick O'Malley, Course Faculty Supervisor

patrick.omalley@USUHS.edu

2d Lt Kaitlin Beyrau, Course Director

kaitlin.beyrau@USUHS.edu

2LT Kaitlyn Mullin, Course Director

kaitlyn.mullin@USUHS.edu

Department Website: MEM

The department of Military and Emergency Medicine (MEM) lies within the Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences (USUHS) F. Edward Hebert School of Medicine (SOM). Created to enhance students’ understanding and appreciation of military medicine, the Department of Military and Emergency Medicine is also what makes USUHS a unique learning environment and opportunity for students who would not otherwise practice and understand what makes the practice of Military Medicine unique and challenging. All students who graduate from the USUHS School of Medicine will not only be equipped with a breadth of excellent medical knowledge and skills, but they will be leaders in medicine. This commitment to Military Medicine, Practice and Leadership become the pillars for this one of a kind curriculum at the Uniformed Services University.

Contacts:

Clerkship Director: Lt Col Leslie Vojta

Phone Number: 301-295-3637

Email: leslie.vojta@USUHS.edu

Clerkship Coordinator: Mr. Danial Durnell

Phone Number: 301-295-5326

Email: danial.durnell@USUHS.edu

Course #: MM0 4002 Emergency Medicine Clerkship

Duration: 4 weeks (One Block/Round) 

Hours: 5 hours

Grading: Honors/Pass/Fail

Course Description:

The Emergency Medicine Clerkship is a mandatory, 4-week, senior Clerkship designed to train 4th year medical students in the basic tenets of diagnosis and management of emergency medical conditions. During this clerkship, students will develop clinical skills to diagnose, manage, and rapidly understand undifferentiated, emergency medical and surgical conditions in patients of all ages and demographics. They will gain an understanding of the role of Emergency Medicine in our healthcare system and an appreciation of time constraints and resource utilization.

Sites: Multiple Sites

Course #: MMO 4033 Emergency Medicine Elective

Duration: 4 weeks (One Block/Round) 

Hours: 5 hours

Grading: Pass/Fail

Course Description:

The Emergency Medicine elective is a 4-week, senior elective designed to train 4th year medical students who wish for additional emergency medicine experience in the basic tenets of diagnosis and management of emergency medical conditions. The rotations consist of clinical shifts, in military and civilian emergency departments, combined with written reflective assignments. The 4-week elective, located at sites around the country, affords students the chance to learn about the assessment and management of emergency patients while gaining insight into a potential EM career.

Sites: Multiple Sites

Course #: MM0 4100 Research & Writing Medical History

Duration: 4 weeks (One Block/Round) 

Hours: 5 hours

Grading: Pass/Fail

Course Description: This elective is designed to familiarize students with research and publication in medical history and specifically to assist students in preparing an essay suitable for publication in professional journal.

Sites: Multiple Sites

Course #: MM0 4110 Avocational Medical History

Duration: 4 weeks (One Block/Round) 

Hours: 5 hours

Grading: Pass/Fail

Course Description: Designed to familiarize students with standard work in some specialized field of medical history, expose them to the classic historical research related to that special field & through directed reading prepare them for a professional lifetime of avocation.

Sites: Multiple Sites

Course #: MM0 4150 Pediatric Emergency Medicine

Duration: 4 weeks (One Block/Round) 

Hours: 5 hours

Grading: Pass/Fail

Course Description: Students in Pediatric Emergency Medicine (PEM) will have the opportunity to evaluate multiple patients in a tertiary care Pediatric Emergency Department (ED) and Level 1 Pediatric Trauma Center. Students will evaluate pediatric patients with a variety of complaints (infectious problems, congenital disorders, traumatic injuries, etc.) and levels of medical acuity. Students will experience the busy nature of the ED setting and learn how to assess and manage patients efficiently and effectively. Finally, students will be exposed to different areas of the specialty of Pediatric Emergency Medicine including direct patient care, ED nursing and technician roles, patient triage and the academic endeavors and commitments of the PEM staff.

Sites: INOVA Fairfax Pediatric ED

Department Website: MEM

USUHS and the School of Medicine are dedicated to producing leaders for the Military Health System. An integral part of leadership is understanding how the operational sides of our services function. The Military Operational Medicine elective is a great way for students in the post-clerkship year to gain experience working with operational units of each service. Over the years, the Department of Military and Emergency Medicine has sponsored students rotating in a wide array of operational units. We value enabling students to go out into the services and to begin to understand how they fit in as medical officers.

Military Operational Medicine elective rotations are largely student initiated and driven. While our staff is here to assist you in establishing a suitable elective experience, you will assume the lion’s share of the responsibility in contacting/establishing a primary POC/Sponsor, working with that sponsor to craft goals and objectives for the rotation, and obtaining ultimate approval from the MEM Operational Medicine Clerkship Director and OSA. The Department of Military and Emergency Medicine will not assume responsibility for funding operational medicine electives.

Contacts:

Mr. Danial Durnell, Clerkship Administrator, C-1046

301-295-5326

Danial.durnell@USUHS.edu

Military Operational Medicine electives range in duration from 2 weeks to 6 weeks. Please ensure that you register for the proper course/place-holder equivalent to that for which you have been ultimately approved:

• 2-week course experiences will register for MOR4110, MOR4120, and MOR4130 sequentially
• 3-week course experiences will register for MOR4155
• 4-week course experiences will register for MOR4210, MOR4220, and MOR4230 sequentially
• 6-week course experiences will register for MOR4110 and MOR4210)

Course #: MOR 4110 Military Operational Medicine

Duration: 2 weeks

Hours: 2.5 hours

Grading: Pass/Fail

Sites: Multiple Sites

Comments: Registration REQUIRES a 114 Form

Course #: MOR 4120 Military Operational Medicine

Duration: 2 weeks

Hours: 2.5 hours

Grading: Pass/Fail

Sites: Multiple Sites

Comments: Registration REQUIRES a 114 Form

Course #:  MOR4130 Military Operational Medicine

Duration: 2 weeks

Hours: 2.5 hours

Grading: Pass/Fail

Sites: Multiple Sites

Comments: Registration REQUIRES a 114 Form

Course #: MOR4155 Military Operational Medicine

Duration: 3 weeks

Hours: 4 hours

Grading: Pass/Fail

Sites: Multiple Sites

Comments: Registration REQUIRES a 114 Form

Course #: MOR4210 Military Operational Medicine

Duration: 4 weeks (One Block/Round)

Hours: 5 hours

Grading: Pass/Fail

Sites: Multiple Sites

Comments: Registration REQUIRES a 114 Form

Course #: MOR4220 Military Operational Medicine

Duration: 4 weeks (One Block/Round), subsequent

Hours: 5 hours

Grading: Pass/Fail

Sites: Multiple Sites

Comments: Registration REQUIRES a 114 Form

Course #: MOR4230 Military Operational Medicine

Duration: 4 weeks (One Block/Round), subsequent

Hours: 5 hours

Grading: Pass/Fail

Sites: Multiple Sites

Comments: Registration REQUIRES a 114 Form

Military Operational Medicine Electives, sample list including but not limited to:

• Operational Medicine Electives vary widely. The following are possible examples of Operational Medicine Electives, but others may be included (coordinate with the MEM Operational Medicine Electives Director):
• Military Mountain Medicine Course (M3C) in Vermont or Washington – 2 weeks – training by Wilderness Medicine Fellowship instructors (counts toward DiMM – Diploma in Mountain Medicine; USMC Mountain Medicine does NOT)
• Cold Weather Mountain Medicine and Avalanche course in Vermont – 2 weeks – advanced mountain medicine in the cold and austere environment along with introduction to avalanche basics; must have completed M3C or USMC Mountain Medicine in Bridgeport, CA; training by Wilderness Medicine Fellowship instructors (counts toward DiMM – Diploma in Mountain Medicine
• Dive Medicine and Dive Rescue Course in Key West – 2 weeks – training in Dive & Marine medicine; will become Open Water, Advanced Open Water, and Water Rescue Dive certified
• Navy Diving & Salvage Training Center in Panama City (2-4 weeks) – work alongside Navy UMOs; this is not a “course” but more of an operational clinical rotation
• Naval Special Warfare Center in Coronado, CA (2-4 weeks) – this is where BUDS training occurs; work alongside Navy physicians that provide oversight of BUDS and other Special Forces training; not a true “course but more of an operational clinical rotation
• Air Force Flight Surgeon Course (AMP 201/202) at WPAFB – 4 weeks. Course requirements: must have completed AFOM 101 and 102 already. AMP 201 and 202 (4 weeks) will complete the flight surgeon training to earn wings; only students that are doing one year internships with plans to go into Flight Medicine as a GMO will be authorized (must have pending Flight Med assignment).
• Army Flight Surgeon Course at Fort Rucker – 6 weeks – completion of this course leads to earning the Army FS wings
• Special Operations Combat Medic at Fort Bragg – 2 to 4 weeks – work alongside the 18D students and Instructors at Fort Bragg in this Special Operations community

Comments: Military Operational Medicine Elective options do NOT include purely military training courses that are not medically academic nor clinical in any way (e.g. Airborne, Air Assault, etc.). Such Military Training Courses are coordinated by the Brigade and are NO LONGER credited as Military Operational Medicine electives – see the Commandant’s office for guidance and Brigade Operations for coordination (USUHS-bde-s3-operations-ggg@USUHS.edu or 301-295-9635, Rm C- 1081).

Contacts:

For purely military training/course options, you should prepare to assume sole responsibility for contacting the appropriate school, securing a slot, fulfilling any course prerequisites, and obtaining command (Commandant/Brigade) approval

For purely research-related elective options, please reach out to

Dr. Martin Ottolini, Assistant Dean

Phone Number: 301-319-4023

martin.ottolini@USUHS.edu

*Our office can assist with suggesting an array of valuable research elective opportunities.

Department Website: NEU

Course #: NE0 4100 Adult Neurology

Duration: 4 weeks (One Block/Round) 

Hours: 6 hours

Grading: Honors/Pass/Fail

Course Description: The Neurology Clerkship is a combined inpatient and outpatient rotation where students evaluate and manage patients as part of a team consisting of other med students, residents, and Staff Members. Students participate in teaching rounds, conferences, and lectures/seminars conducted by their site. The objective is to teach students principles of neurologic diagnosis and management in preparation for internship. Students are required to see 9 Core Patients and submit a mini-case report on 4 of them. Students must also pass a written examination and their end of month Clinical Performance Evaluation.

Sites: WRNNMC, Fort Belvoir, DCVA, Naval Medical Center Portsmouth, Naval Medical Center Jacksonville, Brook Army Medical Center, Naval Medical Center San Diego, Madigan Army Medical Center, Tripler Army Medical Center.  At times students may also rotate in Pensacola, Camp Lejeune, and Travis.

Course #: NE0 4110 Child Neurology

Duration: 4 weeks (One Block/Round) 

Hours: 6 hours

Grading: Honors/Pass/Fail

Course Description: The Child Neurology Clerkship is a combination outpatient and consultation service where students evaluate and manage patients as part of a team consisting of other med students, residents, and Staff Members. The Child Neurology Clerkship is only offered at WALTER REED (WRMC), however, students are required to attend clinic once per week at one of the satellite locations either at FBCH or Malcom Grow. Students participate in teaching rounds, conferences, lectures/seminars. The objective is to teach students principles of neurologic diagnosis and management in preparation for internship.

Site: Walter Reed

Course #: NE0 4205 Neurology Elective

Duration: 4 weeks (One Block/Round) 

Hours: 5 hours

Grading: Pass/Fail

Course Description: Clinical electives are offered in general neurology and a number of subspecialty areas including (but not restricted to) Child Neurology, Behavioral Neurology, Epilepsy, Stroke, Neuro-Oncology, and Movement Disorders. Elective rotations are all unfunded and require prior authorization from the MTF and the Clerkship Director. These are arranged directly with the Neurology service at the MTF All are pass/fail graded. Grades are determined on the basis of a Performance Report by the Supervisor. 

Sites: WRNNMC, Belvoir, Portsmouth, Jacksonville, Pensacola, San Antonio, Wright-Patterson, Nellis, Travis, Tripler, San Diego, Okinawa, Eisenhower

Comments: This course can be performed at any site where a staff neurologist is stationed, with pre-approval by the USUHS Clerkship Director through a 114 Form.

Course #: NE0 4121 Neurology Sub-Internship

Duration: 4 weeks (One Block/Round) 

Hours: 8 hours

Grading: Honors/Pass/Fail

Note: The neurology sub-internship cannot be used as a substitute for the required neurology clerkship.

Course Description: The Neurology sub-internship experience is offered for those students who want additional exposure to neurology in preparation for residency application. The sub- internship is designed to offer students increased responsibility in the care and management of patients, beyond what the required clerkship offers.

This will be a predominantly inpatient experience with the following objectives:

• Specify common neurologic complications of patients admitted with medical/surgical illness
• Review the responsibilities of a PGY1 on a neurology service (patient assessments, writing orders for common neurologic tests, discharge planning)
• Demonstrate oral communication skills necessary to present patient data to the attending physician and consulting providers in a logical manner
• Illustrate the ability to work in interdisciplinary teams (awareness of roles and responsibilities of ancillary providers in care of neurology in-patients, engage PT/OT/SLP, and SWS when appropriate, incorporate recommendations from other services)

The sub-internship student is required to:

• Attend daily rounds (ward or consult service)
• Present all data to include History & Physicals, labs, imaging, and consult results to the attending on rounds
• Independently perform the initial evaluation on at least 6 NEW patients over the course of the 4 (this can be done via ER consults, ward admissions, or consult service patients).
• Maintain an average daily census of 3 patients (i.e., the sub-intern must be actively following (seeing daily, writing notes, oral presentations) at least 3 patients per day averaged over the course of the 4
• Attend discharge planning meetings for the patients they are actively following
• Write orders and enter consults requests in the electronic health record (after discussion with house staff) for patients they are actively following
• Present a patient at morning report over the course of the 4 weeks. This must include presentation of the history and physical, localization, differential diagnosis, and evaluation/management plan
• Take call at least 3 times over the course of the 4 week The Site Director can determine how best to implement for their location. For example, at those sites where call is from home the student could stay in hospital from 0700-1900 on a Saturday or Sunday. When the resident gets a call, (s)he can call/text the student who can get started on the evaluation prior to the resident arriving.

The sub-internship student will be evaluated on:

• The ability to take a history and perform a neurologic exam
• Oral communication skills in patient presentations
• Ability to document information in the electronic health record
• The ability to work in interprofessional/interdisciplinary teams

Sites: Madigan; San Antonio Military Medical Center; Walter Reed

Comments: This course is only offered to students who are interested in applying for a neurology residency and is only offered at sites with neurology residency programs.

Department Website: OBG

Primary Contact (Course Instructor) for all Courses:

Dr. Danielle Wright (Danielle.Wright@usuhs.edu)

Dr. Katie Shvartsman (Katerina.Shvartsman@usuhs.edu)

Sub-Internships carry additional requirements:

• Submit a Sub-I compliance form
• Maintain a patient case log throughout the rotation
• Give a 7-10 minute presentation
• Labor and Delivery Call (2 shifts)

Sites: List can be found on the USU Obstetrics and Gynecology page

I. Electives

II. SubInternships

I. Electives

Course #: OBR 4250 Maternal Fetal Medicine

Duration: 4 weeks (One Block/Round) 

Hours: 5 hours

Grading: Pass/Fail

Course Description: Students will be part of the MFM team composed of maternal fetal medicine specialists and OB/GYN residents. They will participate in the care of patients with high risk pregnancy concerns in the inpatient and outpatient settings. Additionally, the students will be exposed to fetal diagnosis and advanced ultrasonography. Other opportunities for education include morning rounds, departmental conferences, specialty clinics, and time on the Labor and Delivery Unit.

By the conclusion of the rotation the student should be able to:

• Describe the impact of pregnancy on the medical problems and the impact of medical problems on pregnancy.
• Describe and interpret common screening, diagnostic and evaluation tools employed to assess fetal status.
• Work cooperatively with peers, residents, staff, nurses, patients, and all members of the healthcare team.

Sites: Multiple sites – see above

Course #: OBR 4330 Gynecologic Oncology

Duration: 4 weeks (One Block/Round) 

Hours: 5 hours

Grading: Pass/Fail

Course Description: Students will be part of the Gyn Oncology team made up of gynecology oncology staff and OB/GYN residents (and fellows). They will participate in the outpatient and inpatient care of patients with pre-cancer, cancer or complex surgical cases as well as familial syndromes. Students will round daily with the team and be assigned primary responsibility for individual patients. Students will provide concise patient presentations daily in standard format. Students will participate in other educational opportunities including morning report, departmental conferences, and tumor planning conferences. Students will attend and, when appropriate, scrub on operative cases.

By the conclusion of the rotation the student should be able to:

• Demonstrate understanding of the anatomy of the female pelvis and basic surgical principles (sterile technique, basic suturing, knot tying).
• Describe signs, symptoms, risk factors, and basic evaluation of ovarian, cervical, endometrial, vulvar and vaginal cancer.
• Describe the spectrum of treatment options for gynecologic cancer patients including surgery, chemotherapy, radiation, and palliative care.
• Function as a productive and contributing member of the gyn onc team.

Sites: Multiple sites – see above

Course #: OBR 4340 Female Pelvic Medicine & Reconstructive Surgery (Urogyn)

Duration: 4 weeks (One Block/Round) 

Hours: 5 hours

Grading: Pass/Fail

Course Description: Students will be part of the UROGYN team made up of uro-gynecologists and OB/GYN resident (and fellows). They will participate in the outpatient and inpatient care of patients with pelvic floor disorders such as uterovaginal prolapse, urinary incontinence, and voiding dysfunction. Students will assist with diagnostic procedures, medical treatment, pre- operative and post-operative care of surgically managed patients. Students will participate in other educational opportunities including morning report, departmental conferences, and specialized uro-gynecology conferences. Students will attend and, when appropriate, scrub on operative cases.

By the conclusion of the rotation the student should be able to:

• List and describe the main types of urinary incontinence (SUI, UUI, mixed UI) and basic management of each type.
• Describe severity of pelvic organ prolapse.
• List major risk factors for urinary incontinence and pelvic organ prolapse.

Sites: Multiple sites – see above

Course #: OBR 4230 Minimally Invasive Surgery (MIS) or GYN Surgery

Duration: 4 weeks (One Block/Round) 

Hours: 5 hours

Grading: Pass/Fail

Course Description: Students will be a part of the gynecology team made up of board certified obstetrician-gynecologist and OBGYN residents (and MIS fellows). They will participate in the outpatient and inpatient care of patients with surgical gynecologic disorders to include the preoperative assessment, surgical procedure and post-operative care. Where applicable, students will learn the basic foundation of minimally invasive surgery. Additional opportunities for education include morning report and departmental conferences. The students will attend and, when appropriate, scrub on operative cases.

By the conclusion of the rotation the student should be able to:

• Describe the pelvic anatomy, both internal and external with emphasis on blood supply, ureteral location, and retroperitoneal anatomy.
• Describe the principal causes, diagnostic evaluation, surgical and non-surgical treatment options, and appropriate follow-up in the management of patients with abnormal uterine bleeding, pelvic masses, chronic pelvic pain, and endometriosis.
• Describe common measures for the prevention of infection, deep venous thrombosis, and other peri-operative complications.
• Describe when the use of laparoscopy versus open procedures is most appropriate.

Sites: Multiple sites – see above

Course #: OBR 4270 Reproductive Endocrinology & Infertility

Duration: 4 weeks (One Block/Round) 

Hours: 5 hours

Grading: Pass/Fail

Course Description: Students will be part of the REI team made up of board certified reproductive endocrinologists and OB/GYN residents (and fellows). They will participate in the outpatient and inpatient care of patients with infertility and other endocrine diagnoses. Students will, when appropriate, assist with specific procedures such as saline sonograms, hysterosalpingograms, and intrauterine inseminations. Students will participate with the team in the operating room, as well as, gain exposure to Assisted Reproductive Technologies (ART) such as in vitro fertilization. Other opportunities for education include morning report and departmental conferences.

By the conclusion of the rotation the student should be able to:

• Describe the hormonal changes in the normal and abnormal menstrual cycle and how these are impacted by other factors within the body and environment.
• Demonstrate understanding of the basic infertility evaluation of both the male and female patient.
• Develop a basic understanding of the evaluation and treatment options for polycystic ovarian syndrome, congenital uterine anomalies, amenorrhea, abnormal uterine bleeding, thyroid and prolactin issues, and endometriosis.

Sites: Multiple sites – see above

Course #: OBR 4220 General Obstetrics/Gynecology Clerkship

Duration: 4 weeks (One Block/Round) 

Hours: 5 hours

Grading: Pass/Fail

Course Description: Students will spend approximately 50% of their clerkship on the routine obstetrics service and the remaining time on the gynecology service. Their teams will be made up of OB/GYN residents at multiple levels of training and attending obstetrician/gynecologist. During this rotation, the students will participate in the care of patients in the inpatient and outpatient settings. While on L&D, they will participate in the evaluation of patients in triage, as well as, be involved in vaginal and cesarean deliveries. Other opportunities for education include morning rounds, departmental conferences, specialty clinics, dedicated time in the OR and time on the Labor and Delivery Unit.

By the conclusion of the obstetrics portion of the rotation, the student should be able to:

• Evaluate pregnant women presenting with common triage complaints including labor (term and preterm), third trimester bleeding, rupture of membranes (term and preterm), and hypertension.
• Describe the normal course of labor, as well as, identify abnormalities that develop during labor.
• Discuss the normal maternal physiologic changes of the postpartum period and counsel patients on post-partum care and contraception.

By the conclusion of the gynecology portion of the rotation, the student should be able to:

• Evaluate women in clinic presenting for routine health maintenance and common gynecologic disorders.
• Describe the key components of the pre-operative evaluation and planning, including history, physical examination, and informed consent.
• Describe components of postoperative care, as well as, discuss common postoperative complications

Sites: Multiple sites – see above

Course #: OBR 4210 Labor and Delivery Days and Night Float

Duration: 4 weeks (One Block/Round) 

Hours: 5 hours

Grading: Pass/Fail

Course Description: Students will be an integral part of the Labor and Delivery Team. Their teams will be made up of OB/GYN residents at multiple levels of training and attending obstetrician/gynecologist. During this rotation, the students will participate in the care of patients in the inpatient and triage settings. While on L&D, they will participate in the evaluation of patients in triage, as well as, be involved in intrapartum and postpartum care. They will have the opportunity to participate in vaginal and cesarean deliveries. Other opportunities for education include morning rounds and departmental conferences.

By the conclusion of the rotation, the student should be able to:

• Evaluate pregnant women presenting with common triage complaints including labor (term and preterm), third trimester bleeding, rupture of membranes (term and preterm), and hypertension.
• Describe the normal course of labor, as well as, identify abnormalities that develop during labor.
• Discuss the normal maternal physiologic changes of the postpartum period and counsel patients on post-partum care and contraception.

Sites: Multiple sites – see above

Course #: OBR 4212 OB/GYN Subspecialty Combo

Duration: 4 weeks (One Block/Round) 

Hours: 5 hours

Grading: Pass/Fail

Course Description: This course code describes when students complete a rotation combining two subspecialties (e.g. Urogyn/Gyn Onc/MFM or any combination). 

Sites: Multiple sites – see above

II. Sub-Internships

Course #: OBR 4370 Gynecologic Oncology S.I.

Duration: 4 weeks (One Block/Round) 

Hours: 8 hours

Grading: Honors/Pass/Fail

Course Description: Students will be part of the Gyn Oncology team made up of gynecology oncology staff and OB/GYN residents (and fellows). They will participate in the outpatient and inpatient care of patients with pre-cancer, cancer or complex surgical cases as well as familial syndromes. Students will round daily with the team and be assigned primary responsibility for individual patients. Students will provide concise patient presentations daily in standard format. Students will participate in other educational opportunities including morning report, departmental conferences, and tumor planning conferences. Students will attend and, when appropriate, scrub on operative cases.

By the conclusion of the rotation the student should be able to:

• Demonstrate understanding of the anatomy of the female pelvis and basic surgical principles (sterile technique, basic suturing, knot tying).
• Describe signs, symptoms, risk factors, and basic evaluation of ovarian, cervical, endometrial, vulvar and vaginal cancer.
• Describe the spectrum of treatment options for gynecologic cancer patients including surgery, chemotherapy, radiation, and palliative care.
• Function as a productive and contributing member of the gyn onc team.

Sites: Multiple sites – see above

Course #: OBR 4375 Female Pelvic Medicine & Reconstructive Surgery (Urogyn) S.I.

Duration: 4 weeks (One Block/Round) 

Hours: 8 hours

Grading: Honors/Pass/Fail

Course Description: Students will be part of the UROGYN team made up of uro-gynecologists and OB/GYN resident (and fellows). They will participate in the outpatient and inpatient care of patients with pelvic floor disorders such as uterovaginal prolapse, urinary incontinence, and voiding dysfunction. Students will assist with diagnostic procedures, medical treatment, pre- operative and post-operative care of surgically managed patients. Students will participate in other educational opportunities including morning report, departmental conferences, and specialized uro-gynecology conferences. Students will attend and, when appropriate, scrub on operative cases. 

By the conclusion of the rotation the student should be able to:

• List and describe the main types of urinary incontinence (SUI, UUI, mixed UI) and basic management of each type.
• Describe severity of pelvic organ prolapse.
• List major risk factors for urinary incontinence and pelvic organ prolapse.

Sites: Multiple sites – see above

Course #: OBR 4310 Obstetrics/Gynecology S.I.

Duration: 4 weeks (One Block/Round) 

Hours: 8 hours

Grading: Honors/Pass/Fail

Course Description: Students will spend approximately 50% of their clerkship on the routine obstetrics service and the remaining time on the gynecology service. Their teams will be made up of OB/GYN residents at multiple levels of training and attending obstetrician/gynecologist. During this rotation, the students will participate in the care of patients in the inpatient and outpatient settings. While on L&D, they will participate in the evaluation of patients in triage, as well as, be involved in vaginal and cesarean deliveries. Other opportunities for education include morning rounds, departmental conferences, specialty clinics, dedicated time in the OR and time on the Labor and Delivery Unit.

By the conclusion of the obstetrics portion of the rotation, the student should be able to:

• Evaluate pregnant women presenting with common triage complaints including labor (term and preterm), third trimester bleeding, rupture of membranes (term and preterm), and hypertension.
• Describe the normal course of labor, as well as, identify abnormalities that develop during labor.
• Discuss the normal maternal physiologic changes of the postpartum period and counsel patients on post-partum care and contraception.

By the conclusion of the gynecology portion of the rotation, the student should be able to:

• Evaluate women in clinic presenting for routine health maintenance and common gynecologic disorders.
• Describe the key components of the pre-operative evaluation and planning, including history, physical examination, and informed consent.
• Describe components of postoperative care, as well as, discuss common postoperative complications

Sites: Multiple sites – see above

Course #: OBR 4008 Minimally Invasive Surgery (MIS) or GYN Surgery S.I.

Duration: 4 weeks (One Block/Round) 

Hours: 8 hours

Grading: Honors/Pass/Fail

Course Description: Students will be a part of the gynecology team made up of board certified obstetrician-gynecologist and OBGYN residents (and MIS fellows). They will participate in the outpatient and inpatient care of patients with surgical gynecologic disorders to include the preoperative assessment, surgical procedure and post-operative care. Where applicable, students will learn the basic foundation of minimally invasive surgery. Additional opportunities for education include morning report and departmental conferences. The students will attend and, when appropriate, scrub on operative cases.

By the conclusion of the rotation the student should be able to:

• Describe the pelvic anatomy, both internal and external with emphasis on blood supply, ureteral location, and retroperitoneal anatomy.
• Describe the principal causes, diagnostic evaluation, surgical and non-surgical treatment options, and appropriate follow-up in the management of patients with abnormal uterine bleeding, pelvic masses, chronic pelvic pain, and endometriosis.
• Describe common measures for the prevention of infection, deep venous thrombosis, and other peri-operative complications.
• Describe when the use of laparoscopy versus open procedures is most appropriate.

Sites: Multiple sites – see above

Course #: OBR 4006 Reproductive Endocrinology & Infertility S.I.

Duration: 4 weeks (One Block/Round) 

Hours: 8 hours

Grading: Honors/Pass/Fail

Course Description: Students will be part of the REI team made up of board certified reproductive endocrinologists and OB/GYN residents (and fellows). They will participate in the outpatient and inpatient care of patients with infertility and other endocrine diagnoses. Students will, when appropriate, assist with specific procedures such as saline sonograms, hysterosalpingograms, and intrauterine inseminations. Students will participate with the team in the operating room, as well as, gain exposure to Assisted Reproductive Technologies (ART) such as in vitro fertilization. Other opportunities for education include morning report and departmental conferences.

By the conclusion of the rotation the student should be able to:

• Describe the hormonal changes in the normal and abnormal menstrual cycle and how these are impacted by other factors within the body and environment.
• Demonstrate understanding of the basic infertility evaluation of both the male and female patient.
• Develop a basic understanding of the evaluation and treatment options for polycystic ovarian syndrome, congenital uterine anomalies, amenorrhea, abnormal uterine bleeding, thyroid and prolactin issues, and endometriosis.

Sites: Multiple sites – see above

Course #: OBR 4009 Labor and Delivery Days and Night Float S.I.

Duration: 4 weeks (One Block/Round)

Hours: 8 hours

Grading: Honors/Pass/Fail

Course Description: Students will be an integral part of the Labor and Delivery Team. Their teams will be made up of OB/GYN residents at multiple levels of training and attending obstetrician/gynecologist. During this rotation, the students will participate in the care of patients in the inpatient and triage settings. While on L&D, they will participate in the evaluation of patients in triage, as well as, be involved in intrapartum and postpartum care. They will have the opportunity to participate in vaginal and cesarean deliveries. Other opportunities for education include morning rounds and departmental conferences.

By the conclusion of the rotation, the student should be able to:

• Evaluate pregnant women presenting with common triage complaints including labor (term and preterm), third trimester bleeding, rupture of membranes (term and preterm), and hypertension.
• Describe the normal course of labor, as well as, identify abnormalities that develop during labor.
• Discuss the normal maternal physiologic changes of the postpartum period and counsel patients on post-partum care and contraception.

Sites: Multiple sites – see above

Course #: OBR 4014 OB/GYN Subspecialty Combo  S.I.

Duration: 4 weeks (One Block/Round) 

Hours: 8 hours

Grading: Pass/Fail

Course Description: This course code describes when students complete a rotation combining two subspecialties (e.g. Urogyn/Gyn Onc, REI/MIS, Gyn Onc/MFM or any combination).

Sites: Multiple sites – see above

Department Website: PED

I. Sub-Internships

II. Electives

III. Research 

I. Sub-Internships

Course #: PDR 4632 Pediatric Ward S.I.

Duration: 4 weeks (One Block/Round) 

Hours: 5 hours

Grading: Honors/Pass/Fail

Course Description: This rotation offers you a more diverse view of sick children and their management, from respiratory difficulties requiring hospital-level monitoring and intervention to children receiving therapy for cancer or other chronic illnesses.  You will learn to prioritize and organize your approach, presentation, and plan of care for several patients at once.  Any ward experience is designed to help you differentiate SICK patients from sick patients, and that is a valuable skill for any specialty.  Most learners and physicians can have difficulty with this skill, especially in children, so this rotation can help you gain confidence and build on this critically important skill.

Sites: Wright-Patterson; Madigan; Naval Medical Center, San Diego; San Antonio Military Medical Center; Portsmouth; Tripler; Walter Reed

Course #: PDR 4381 Neonatal Intensive Care Unit (NICU) S.I.

Duration: 4 weeks (One Block/Round) 

Hours: 5 hours

Grading: Honors/Pass/Fail

Course Description: This rotation gives you the advanced pathophysiology and emotional complexities of any ICU environment, but adds in the critical skill of newborn resuscitation and stabilization.  These skills can be important for Pediatric, Family Practice, and OB-Gyn, but can also be valuable in a deployed or emergency room environment.  Generally, ICU experiences are often the most challenging rotations in residency because of the sheer amount of system compromise.  Learning to prioritize and organize your approach, presentation, and plan of care in the ACR year can set you on the right path in a learning environment, rather than encounter it on your first day of residency. 

Sites: Wright-Patterson; Madigan; Naval Medical Center, San Diego; San Antonio Military Medical Center; Portsmouth; Tripler; Walter Reed

Course #: PDR 4631 Pediatric Intensive Care Unit (PICU) S.I.

Duration: 4 weeks (One Block/Round) 

Hours: 5 hours

Grading: Honors/Pass/Fail

Course Description: This is a great rotation for exposure to the pathophysiology and the complexities inherent in caring for critically ill patients, regardless of your specialty interests.  ICU experiences are often the most challenging rotations in residency because of the sheer number of systems compromised.  Learning to prioritize and organize your approach, presentation, and plan of care in the ACR year can set you on the right path in a learning environment, rather than encounter it on your first day of residency.

Sites: Wright-Patterson; Madigan; Naval Medical Center, San Diego; Portsmouth; Tripler; Walter Reed

Course #: PDR 4038 Newborn Service S.I.

Duration: 4 weeks (One Block/Round) 

Hours: 5 hours

Grading: Honors/Pass/Fail

Course Description: This rotation offers you important experience in resuscitation of the newborn along with the repetition to recognize a typical newborn transition from an atypical one.  Atypical transitions need to be identified early as they can require higher levels of care and/or promote anxiety in new parents.  These skills can be important for Pediatric, Family Practice, and OB-Gyn, but can also be valuable in a deployed or emergency room environment. 

Site: Portsmouth

Course #: PDR 4700 Pediatric Inpatient Sub-Internship (Class of 2022 Post-Clerkship Course Only)

Duration: 4 weeks (One Block/Round) 

Hours: 5 hours

Grading: Honors/Pass/Fail

Course Description: This is a great rotation for exposure to no more than 2 inpatient pediatric care environments within the 4 week rotation.  Some locations may not be able to provide you with a full 4 weeks in one environment due to patient census or learner demand.  Because this is a sub-internship, certain criteria of call and full participation with the inpatient teams will need to be met.

Site: Wright-Patterson; Madigan; Naval Medical Center, San Diego; Portsmouth; Tripler; Walter Reed

II. Electives

Course #: PDR 4670 Pediatric Ward

Duration: 4 weeks (One Block/Round) 

Hours: 5 hours

Grading: Pass/Fail

Course Description: This rotation offers you a more diverse view of sick children and their management, from respiratory difficulties requiring hospital-level monitoring and intervention to children receiving therapy for cancer or other chronic illnesses.  You will learn to prioritize and organize your approach, presentation, and plan of care for several patients at once.  Any ward experience is designed to help you differentiate SICK patients from sick patients, and that is a valuable skill for any specialty.  Most learners and physicians can have difficulty with this skill, especially in children, so this rotation can help you gain confidence and build on this critically important skill.

Sites: Wright-Patterson; Madigan; Naval Medical Center, San Diego; San Antonio Military Medical Center; Portsmouth; Tripler; Walter Reed

Course #: PDR 4380 Neonatal Intensive Care Unit

Duration: 4 weeks (One Block/Round) 

Hours: 5 hours

Grading: Pass/Fail

Course Description: This rotation gives you the advanced pathophysiology and emotional complexities of any ICU environment, but adds in the critical skill of newborn resuscitation and stabilization.  These skills can be important for Pediatric, Family Practice, and OB-Gyn, but can also be valuable in a deployed or emergency room environment.  Generally, ICU experiences are often the most challenging rotations in residency because of the sheer amount of system compromise.  Learning to prioritize and organize your approach, presentation, and plan of care in the ACR year can set you on the right path in a learning environment, rather than encounter it on your first day of residency. 

Sites: Wright-Patterson; Madigan; Naval Medical Center, San Diego; Portsmouth; Tripler; Walter Reed

Course #: PDR 4224 Pediatric Intensive Care Unit

Duration: 4 weeks (One Block/Round) 

Hours: 5 hours

Grading: Pass/Fail

Course Description: This is a great rotation for exposure to the pathophysiology and the complexities inherent in caring for critically ill patients, regardless of your specialty interests.  ICU experiences are often the most challenging rotations in residency because of the sheer number of systems compromised.  Learning to prioritize and organize your approach, presentation, and plan of care in the ACR year can set you on the right path in a learning environment, rather than encounter it on your first day of residency.

Sites: Madigan; Naval Medical Center, San Diego; Portsmouth; Walter Reed

Course #: PDR 4225 Multi-specialty Pediatrics (Class of 2022 Post-Clerkship Course Only)

Duration: 4 weeks (One Block/Round) 

Hours: 5 hours

Grading: Pass/Fail

Course Description: This rotation allows for exposure to multiple outpatient or inpatient Pediatric clinical areas.  Not all locations are able to provide instruction in a single clinical area for a full four weeks because of patient load, the number of learners present, or to expose those applying for Pediatric residency to the maximum number of program experiences.  The specific clinical areas are worked out with the site.  The chance to experience multiple Pediatric specialties can help cement your understanding of pathophysiology and specific exam techniques regardless of adult or pediatric residency preference.   

Sites: Wright-Patterson; Madigan; Naval Medical Center, San Diego; San Antonio Military Medical Center; Portsmouth; Tripler; Walter Reed

Course #: PDR 4300 Adolescent Medicine

Duration: 4 weeks (One Block/Round) 

Hours: 5 hours

Grading: Pass/Fail

Course Description: This rotation focuses on the world of adolescent medicine which extends beyond the teen years.  Most of our soldiers, sailors, and airmen fall into this category, so this rotation can be really helpful in learning the skills and techniques to understand and relate to their specific health challenges.  These challenges can be less straightforward and obvious than older patients with their seemingly classic pathophysiology.  Getting comfortable with how to have uncomfortable conversations improves their health and your skills with preventive medicine in all ages. 

Sites: Wright-Patterson; Madigan; Naval Medical Center, San Diego; San Antonio Military Medical Center; Portsmouth; Tripler; Walter Reed

Course #: PDR 4310 Ambulatory Pediatric Clinic

Duration: 4 weeks (One Block/Round) 

Hours: 5 hours

Grading: Pass/Fail

Course Description: This rotation puts you back in the outpatient clinic environment, where most medical specialties spend the majority of their work, to include surgeons.  The most valuable skill to be gained in a clinic rotation is continuing to refine your ability to navigate a visit in a more and more efficient way.  Efficiency is learning to balance your ability to gather medically relevant data with your ability to establish rapport with a patient, leading to a shared plan to achieve health goals in a timely manner.  Practicing these skills can make you stand-out regardless of your residency.  

Sites: Wright-Patterson; Madigan; Naval Medical Center, San Diego; San Antonio Military Medical Center; Portsmouth; Tripler; Walter Reed

Course #: PDR 4238 Child Advocacy/Child Abuse and Neglect

Duration: 4 weeks (One Block/Round) 

Hours: 5 hours

Grading: Pass/Fail

Course Description: Unfortunately, child abuse continues to be a problem for all societies.  Also unfortunately, most providers feel intimidated and inadequately prepared to recognize abuse and how to manage its acute and chronic effects.  How a provider reports incidents and interacts with the legal system provokes anxiety in experienced clinicians.  This rotation can alleviate some of those feelings providing you with the confidence to confront one of the harder aspects of medicine.    

Site: Walter Reed

Course #: PDR 4330 Developmental Pediatrics

Duration: 4 weeks (One Block/Round) 

Hours: 5 hours

Grading: Pass/Fail

Course Description: Atypical development and syndromic illnesses are another category of pediatric medicine which all medical specialties will encounter as survivability and advancement to adulthood improves for these patients.  This rotation can help you begin to understand the nuances of caring for these patients as they age by recognizing their unique challenges and care requirements. 

Sites: Madigan; Naval Medical Center, San Diego; San Antonio Military Medical Center; Portsmouth; Tripler; Walter Reed

Course #: PDR 4430 Pediatric Cardiology

Duration: 4 weeks (One Block/Round) 

Hours: 5 hours

Grading: Pass/Fail

Course Description: This is an excellent familiarization rotation for future Pediatric, Emergency Medicine, Obstetrics, Family Practice, or other specialty residents who WILL encounter patients with these diagnoses in the hospital or deployed setting.  Enhanced familiarity with these diagnoses and the evaluative techniques can make you more comfortable with caring for these patients.  There are approximately 1 million adults with congenital heart disease (CHD), with 20,000 new patients reaching adolescence each year.  With a 90% survival rate these numbers will continue to rise. 

Sites: Wright-Patterson; Madigan; Naval Medical Center, San Diego; San Antonio Military Medical Center; Portsmouth; Tripler; Walter Reed

Course #: PDR 4450 Pediatric Endocrinology

Duration: 4 weeks (One Block/Round) 

Hours: 5 hours

Grading: Pass/Fail

Course Description: This rotation shares many diagnoses with adult patients, meaning that many concepts are transferrable to those interested in adult medicine.  However, there are important differences in the pathophysiology and management of pediatric diseases which can deepen your understanding of these diseases and the care differences.  Such as, why we would not flood a pediatric patient with IV fluids in DKA vs adult treatment protocols.  Or, the important physiology behind growth and development which can persist into adulthood.   

Sites: Wright-Patterson; Madigan; Naval Medical Center, San Diego; San Antonio Military Medical Center; Portsmouth; Tripler; Walter Reed

Course #: PDR 4802 Pediatric Dermatology

Duration: 4 weeks (One Block/Round) 

Hours: 5 hours

Grading: Pass/Fail

Course Description: This rotation will give you a grounding in a skill set that many Primary Care specialists feel poorly prepared to handle even when you can recognize the rash itself.  For ER, FM, and Pediatric resident hopefuls, this can hopefully improve your diagnostic accuracy as well as your comfort with initial rash management.

Site: Walter Reed

Course #: PDR 4460 Pediatric Gastroenterology

Duration: 4 weeks (One Block/Round) 

Hours: 5 hours

Grading: Pass/Fail

Course Description: Many GI chronic illnesses manifest in childhood/adolescence and then persist into adulthood.  The better diagnosed and managed these patients are as children, the better they are habituated to the behavioral and medical management as adults.  This rotation also enhances your ability to navigate common GI related complaints with more confidence. 

Sites: Wright-Patterson; Madigan; Naval Medical Center, San Diego; San Antonio Military Medical Center; Portsmouth; Tripler; Walter Reed

Course #: PDR 4470 Pediatric Genetics

Duration: 4 weeks (One Block/Round) 

Hours: 5 hours

Grading: Pass/Fail

Course Description: Regardless of your residency of interest, the link between genetics and disease is clear.  This is an emerging field of research, understanding, and intervention for medicine.  Getting a better grounding of the interplay of genetics in modern medicine helps you to understand both its benefits and current limitations.  Knitting together theoretical genetics and practical genetics for the practitioner is the key skill to be learned in this rotation. 

Sites: Wright-Patterson; Madigan; Naval Medical Center, San Diego; San Antonio Military Medical Center; Portsmouth; Tripler; Walter Reed

Course #: PDR 4480 Pediatric Hematology/Oncology

Duration: 4 weeks (One Block/Round) 

Hours: 5 hours

Grading: Pass/Fail

Course Description: This rotation is useful for those interested in genetics and pathology, future Primary Care providers, and those with interest in either adult or pediatric Hematology/Oncology.  Both the diagnostic recognition and the treatment protocols for hematologic and oncologic diseases can be challenging for providers.  This rotation can help refine your fund of knowledge in this area, giving you more confidence when evaluating patients for whom these diagnoses are in the differential.  Most of these patients are surviving into adulthood, so this may help you understand their adult risks for those interested in adult medicine.

Sites: Wright-Patterson; Madigan; Naval Medical Center, San Diego; San Antonio Military Medical Center; Portsmouth; Tripler; Walter Reed

Course #: PDR 4490 Pediatric Infectious Disease

Duration: 4 weeks (One Block/Round) 

Hours: 5 hours

Grading: Pass/Fail

Course Description: This is probably the most specifically military relevant Pediatric rotation as emerging infectious diseases and well-known diseases continue to be a health threat to both adults and children in multiple environments from deployments to hospitals to communities to schools and daycare settings.  While children often bear the most severe burden, these diseases affect day-to-day activities as well as combat strength.  This rotation gives you an excellent grounding in the prevention and treatment of those threats for students interested in any residency.

Sites: Wright-Patterson; Madigan; Naval Medical Center, San Diego; San Antonio Military Medical Center; Portsmouth; Tripler; Walter Reed

Course #: PDR 4510 Pediatric Nephrology

Duration: 4 weeks (One Block/Round) 

Hours: 5 hours

Grading: Pass/Fail

Course Description: Kidneys play an integral part in the regulation of bodily functions.  The scale of this regulation can be daunting for many students.  Dysfunction of the kidneys can quickly lead to severe worsening in a patient’s status in both acute and chronic illness as metabolic imbalances manifest.  Especially for those interested in critical care and emergency medicine, understanding the physiology presented in this rotation can be key to recognizing critical illness.  For general practitioners, this rotation can help you recognize early manifestations before they become critical. 

Sites: Tripler; Walter Reed

Course #: PDR 4520 Pediatric Neurology

Duration: 4 weeks (One Block/Round) 

Hours: 5 hours

Grading: Pass/Fail

Course Description: This rotation can be a valuable augmentation of your general Neurology rotation.  The pathophysiology faced by adults with neurologic diagnoses may have begun in childhood.  This rotation allows you to understand the specific challenges faced by children with these diagnoses, as well as have a better understanding of the diagnosis’s natural course.  Pediatric stroke, seizure, syncope, and headache can be diagnostically challenging visits, so improving your grounding in these diagnoses can be especially helpful for ER, FM, Radiology, and Pediatric resident hopefuls.

Sites: Madigan; Naval Medical Center, San Diego; San Antonio Military Medical Center; Portsmouth; Tripler; Walter Reed

Course #: PDR 4543 Introduction to Pediatric Residency

Duration: 4 weeks (One Block/Round) 

Hours: 5 hours

Grading: Pass/Fail

Course Description: This rotation is a mixed Pediatric inpatient and outpatient experience.  It exposes you to a brief summary of all the areas you experienced in your clerkship.  This is a great month to brush up on those Pediatric skills that you may need in the deployed or emergency room environment, but do not feel totally comfortable with thus far.  It also provides wide exposure to a program for interview purposes.

Sites: Wright-Patterson; Madigan; San Antonio Military Medical Center; Tripler

Course #: PDR 4610 Pediatric Pulmonology

Duration: 4 weeks (One Block/Round) 

Hours: 5 hours

Grading: Pass/Fail

Course Description: Pediatric lung diseases, both acute and chronic, are something that all Primary Care and Emergency physicians will encounter, especially as survivability improves for illnesses such as Cystic Fibrosis.  Asthma management and respiratory tract illnesses make up a sizable portion of acute encounters, so having a grounding in evidence-based approaches for these patients can make your transition to being a physician easier.   

Sites: Wright-Patterson; Madigan; Naval Medical Center, San Diego; San Antonio Military Medical Center; Portsmouth; Tripler; Walter Reed

Course #: PDR 4660 Well Baby Nursery/Newborn Service

Duration: 4 weeks (One Block/Round) 

Hours: 5 hours

Grading: Pass/Fail

Course Description: This rotation offers you important experience in resuscitation of the newborn along with the repetition to recognize a typical newborn transition from an atypical one.  Atypical transitions need to be identified early as they can require higher levels of care and/or promote anxiety in new parents.  These skills can be important for Pediatric, Family Practice, and OB-Gyn, but can also be valuable in a deployed or emergency room environment. 

Sites: Madigan; Naval Medical Center, San Diego; San Antonio Military Medical Center; Portsmouth; Tripler

Course #: PDR 4665 Forward Deployed Pediatrics (Class of 2022 Post-Clerkship Course Only)

Duration: 4 weeks (One Block/Round) 

Hours: 5 hours

Grading: Pass/Fail

Course Description: This rotation is a mixed Pediatric inpatient and outpatient experience in a forward deployed hospital.  It exposes you to a summary of all the areas you experienced in your clerkship, but you experience the constrained environment regarding resources and sub-specialists encountered overseas.  This is a great month to brush up on those Pediatric skills that you may need in the deployed or emergency room environment, as well as understand the challenges faced when interacting with health systems outside of the US.  

Sites: Naval Hospital Okinawa, Japan; Landstuhl AMC, Germany

III. Research/Distance Learning Course Descriptions

Course #: PDR 4056 Pediatric Humanitarian Medicine (Class of 2021 Post-Clerkship Course Only)

Duration: 4 weeks

Hours: 5

Grading: Pass/Fail

Course Description: Students will participate in a pediatric nutritional screening mission in Honduran villages with JTF-B. Rotation will include pre-mission briefings, review of previous mission data, force & medical protection assessments, performing & analyzing nutrition assessments, and delivering a post-mission brief.

Site: USUHS

Course #: PDR 8000 Advanced Pediatrics (Class of 2022 Post-Clerkship Course Only)

Duration: 4 weeks (One Block/Round) 

Hours: 5 hours

Grading: Pass/Fail

Course Description: Students will participate in a pediatric distance learning curriculum that features a combination of review articles, videos, and online group discussions regarding the topics and cases.  The syllabus is divided into weekly courses that can continue for up to 12 weeks of individual instruction depending on the number of blocks used for this course.

Sites: USUHS

Department Website: PMR 

Course#: PMR4215 Physical Medicine And Rehabilitation 

Duration: 4 weeks (One Block/Round) 

Hours: 5 hours

Grading: Pass/Fail

Course Description: Students will be introduced to the branch of medicine emphasizing the prevention, diagnosis and treatment of patients whose functional abilities have been temporarily or permanently impaired. By rotating in the outpatient PM&R clinic and the inpatient consult service students will gain knowledge and competency in 1) the performance of the physiatric history and physical as well as 2) the use of the physiatric assessment in developing management plans to help restore patients to an optimal level of functional independence following injuries to the muscles, bones, tissues, and nervous system.

For most students, this will constitute two weeks in each service.  During the outpatient rotation students will be exposed to various PM&R subspecialty clinics to include: Traumatic Brain Injury, Amputee, Interventional Pain Management, Sports Medicine, MSK Ultrasound, Electromyography, and Wheelchair Clinics.  While on the inpatient consult service, students are expected to actively participate in all team activities to include multidisciplinary discussions and planning of the rehabilitative management and disposition of patients with various debilitating injuries to include spinal cord injury, stroke, traumatic brain injury and limb loss.  Students will be expected to participate in all educational opportunities which include daily morning didactics, journal club, weekly staff and resident lectures, bedside teaching rounds, and conferences. 

All rotating students are expected to present a 15 minute Power Point presentation on a topic of their choice to the PM&R Service. Students rotating for two weeks or less are exempt from this requirement. In addition, students on their second month-long rotation in PM&R are also exempt.

Sites: WRNMMC

Contacts:

Lauren Mccoll, Interim Admin Officer

lauren.mccoll.ctr@usuhs.edu

MAJ Seyi A. Gbade-Alabi, M.D., MC, USA, Clerkship Director

Oluwaseyi.gbade-alabi@usuhs.edu

Department Website: PMB

Please submit all PMB 4TH Year Elective Rotation Evaluations to the following person:

James Mancuso (james.mancuso@USUHS.edu)

Jose Ortiz, COL, MC, USA (jose.ortiz@usuhs.edu)

Course #: PMB4100 Aerospace Medicine (Previously PMR4100 for the Class of 2021 Post-Clerkship)

Duration: 2-4 weeks

Hours: Variable

Grading: Pass/Fail

NOTE: This elective is separate from the service-specific flight surgeon courses. More information regarding the flight surgeon courses can be found through the Department of Military and Emergency Medicine and Operational Medicine course catalog.

Course Description: Aerospace medical practitioners serve flyers, passengers, space travelers, air traffic controllers, patients transported by air, maintenance crews, and even mountain climbers and undersea workers. The diverse and expanding opportunities in the field make a career in aerospace medicine attractive for health professionals. The Army, Navy, and Air Force have aerospace medicine residency programs and offer opportunities for medical student training. NASA also offers medical student clerkships on a space available basis. To learn more about military aerospace medicine and current medical student opportunities, contact any of the individuals or resources below.

Sites:

Army at Fort Rucker

John Venezia, DO, MPH, MA, MAJLTC, MC(SFS), USA Program Director,

Army Aerospace Medicine Residency Fort Rucker, AL

john.j.venezia2.mil@mail.mil

Joe Pavelites, MD, PhD, MPH, MAJ, MC(SFS), USA, Associate Program Director,

Army Aerospace Medicine Residency Fort Rucker, AL

joseph.j.pavelites.mil@mail.mil

Navy at Pensacola

Jennifer Hunt, MD, LCDR, MC(FS)

Assistant Program Director Navy Aerospace Medicine Residency, Pensacola FL Jennifer.l.hunt68.mil@mail.mil

Kai Cheng, DO LCDR, MC(FS), USN Department Head,

Internal Medicine Naval Aerospace Medicine Institute Pensacola, FL

Kai.y.cheng.mil@mail.mil

Phone: 850-452-3154850-452-2941

Air Force at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base

Doug Files, MD

Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, OH

douglas.files.3.ctr@us.af.mil

Phone: 937-938-3222

NASA at Houston

The NASA rotation is predominantly non-clinical.

Comment: This specific rotation requires a formal application submission through the NASA organization. More information can be found here.

Course #: PMB4170 Occupational and Environmental Medicine (Previously PMR4170 for the Class of 2021 Post-Clerkship)

Duration: 2-4 weeks

Hours: 5 hours

Grading: Pass/Fail

Course Description: Student works at a major Military Treatment Facility. The student obtains hands-on experience in occupational & environmental medicine activities to include identification of hazards in the workplace through site visits, hazard specific medical surveillance exams, and the evaluation of persons with occupational illness or injury. The student will develop an understanding of the role of prevention in maintaining the health of the workforce.

Sites: Walter Reed

Contacts:

Michael D’Onofrio, MD, MPH, MAJ, MC, USA Chief, Occupational Health

michael.j.donofrio.mil@mail.mil  

Course #: PMB4180 Preventive Medicine (Previously PMR4180 for the Class of 2021 Post-Clerkship)

Duration: 2-4 weeks

Hours: 5 hours

Grading: Pass/Fail

Course Description: Student participates directly in the practice of Preventive Medicine and obtain first-hand exposure to the diverse aspects of Preventive Medicine and Public Health in the military. Student joins the Preventive Medicine residency team at USUHS assisting on new or ongoing projects varying from outbreak investigations and epidemiologic research to healthy policy recommendations. Students may additionally evaluate patients in a Preventive Medicine and Public Health capacity.

Sites: Walter Reed

Contacts:

Robert J. Lipsitz, MD, MPH, MA, CAPT, MC, USN; Chief, Direct Patient Care robert.lipsitz@USUHS.edu or robert.j.lipsitz.mil@mail.mil

Course #: PMB4200 Tropical Medicine (Previously PMR4200 for the Class of 2021 Post-Clerkship)

Duration: Variable

Hours: 5 hours

Grading: Pass/Fail

Course Description: Laboratory, clinical, and/or fieldwork in Tropical Medicine/Tropical Public Health. Clinical experiences vary from outpatient services to inpatient rounds in collaborating hospitals and clinics. Laboratory experiences may be at USUHS or at collaborating overseas labs. Clinical emphasis is on diagnosis & treatment of tropical diseases endemic to elective location (locations vary). See PMB Division of Tropical Public Health for more details.

Comments: Clerkship must first be approved six months in advance of desired date by Capstone Program Director. Potential student funding available but not guaranteed.

Other PM and OEM Contacts:

Occupational & Environmental Medicine

Pamela L. Krahl, MD, MPH, CAPT, MC, USN Director & Assistant Professor USUHS

Occupational & Environmental Medicine Residency Program

Phone: 301-295-3718;  pamela.krahl@USUHS.edu

Jose Ortiz, MD, MPH, COL, MC, Associate Director & Assistant Professor USUHS

Occupational & Environmental Medicine Residency Program

Phone: 301-295-9773;  jose.ortiz@USUHS.edu

General Preventive Medicine

Amy Costello, Director & Assistant Professor USUHS

General Preventive Medicine Residency Program

Phone: 301-295-3719;  amy.costello@USUHS.edu

Carolyn Reimann, Associate Director & Assistant Professor USUHS

General Preventive Medicine Residency Program

Phone: 301-295-0263;  carolyn.reimann@USUHS.edu

Robert Lipsitz, MD, MPH, MA CAPT, MC, USN Chief, Direct Patient Care USUHS WRNMMC

General Preventive Medicine Residency Program

Phone 301-295-7945; robert.lipsitz@USUHS.edu ; robert.j.lipsitz.mil@mail.mil

Paul Faestel, MD, MPH,  LTCCOL, MC, USA, Program Director

Preventive Medicine Residency Program, Madigan Army Medical Center

Phone 253-968-6096;  paul.m.faestel.mil@mail.mil

Aerospace and Occupational and Environmental Medicine

John Venezia, DO, MPH, MA, LTC, MC(SFS), USA Program Director,

Army Aerospace Medicine Residency Fort Rucker, AL

john.j.venezia2.mil@mail.mil

Joe Pavelites, MD, PhD, MPH, MAJ, MC(SFS), USA, Director,

Occupational & Environmental Medicine Residency Program (through RAM) Fort Rucker, AL

joseph.j.pavelites.mil@mail.mil   

Navy Aerospace Medicine

Nathan Almond, CAPT, MC(FS), USN Director

Residency in Aerospace Medicine (RAM) Program Pensacola, FL

nathaniel.b.almond.mil@mail.mil

Doug Files, MD

Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, OH

douglas.files.3.ctr@us.af.mil  

Phone: 937-938-3222

Course #: PMB4270, MHS By the Numbers: Diagnosing & Managing the Readiness of Populations (Previously PMR4270 for the Class of 2021 Post-Clerkship)

Duration: 4 weeks (One Block/Round)

Hours: 3 hours

Grading: Pass/Fail

Course Description: Students will learn to use the MHS Population Health Portal in CarePoint to examine populations within the region. While learning about panel management, behavioral nudge theory, value-based care, and the MHS Quadruple Aim, teams of students will measure and identify a real population-level health disparity within the MHS, and design and pitch a prescription to correct that disparity.

By the conclusion of the rotation, the student should be able to:

• Understand the collection and use of population data to improve patient outcomes. 2.
• Apply population health improvement strategies to improve the health of communities and to contribute to the reduction of health disparities.

Sites: USUHS

Contacts:

Gregory Gorman, CAPT

Phone Number: 301-221-4853

gregory.gorman@USUHS.edu 

Department Website: SUR

I. Surgical Sub-Internships

II. Elective Courses 

Advanced surgical clerkship and sub internship students are expected to expand on the general familiarity of the entire surgical experience gained during the core clerkship, and increase knowledge and independent practice skill sets in preparation to become a house officer. At a minimum, students should complete the surgical curriculum as an educated consumer of surgical resources. This includes membership on the "surgical team" with full participation in all activities of the team. These activities will include inpatient and outpatient evaluation, treatment planning, discussions concerning decision-making, preoperative evaluation, operative experience, post-operative care, surgical rounds, and surgical conferences. Students on surgical rotations must scrub and assist in procedures.

Formal teaching will include grand rounds, daily lectures, journal clubs, teaching conferences, and bedside clinical instruction.

Surgical Sub-Internships: Sub internships differ from standard rotations in that the learning objectives fall under two separate but equally important categories 1) gaining knowledge, skills, and experience related to the clinical specialty and 2) developing competency in core practical skills required of a house officer (e.g. caring for inpatients, evaluating and admitting patients to the service, and taking call). Students on SUBI rotations are expected to perform as closely as possible to the level of a PGY 1. The rotation must include the daily care of inpatients, and call for the student at the same frequency as the most junior resident on the service who takes overnight call. Submission of a completed patient log is required. The objectives of all surgical subi courses are for students to gain experience in procedures appropriate for the students’ level of training, improve manual dexterity in surgical technical skills, and experience house officer responsibilities (including call). Students will be expected to perform at near intern level by the end of the rotation.

I. Surgical Sub-Internship Courses:

Course #: SUR 4410 General Surgery SUBI

Duration: 4 weeks (One Block/Round)

Hours: 8 hours

Grading: Honors/Pass/Fail

Sites: Walter Reed; San Antonio Military Medical Center; Ft. Belvoir; Ft. Gordon; Madigan; Tripler; Ft. Bliss; Ft. Bragg; Travis AFB; Keesler; Wright Patterson; Nellis; Naval Medical Center, San Diego

Course #: SUR 4430 Cardiothoracic Surgery SUBI

Duration: 4 weeks (One Block/Round)

Hours: 8 hours

Grading: Honors/Pass/Fail

Sites: Walter Reed; San Antonio Military Medical Center; Madigan; Tripler; Travis AFB; Portsmouth

Course #: SUR 4450 Burn Intensive Care Unit SUBI

Duration: 4 weeks (One Block/Round)

Hours: 8 hours

Grading: Honors/Pass/Fail

Sites: San Antonio Military Medical Center; Washington Hospital Center

Course #: SUR 4470 Vascular Surgery SUBI

Duration: 4 weeks (One Block/Round)

Hours: 8 hours

Grading: Honors/Pass/Fail

Sites: Walter Reed; San Antonio Military Medical Center; Madigan; Tripler; Travis AFB; Naval Medical Center, San Diego; Portsmouth

Course #: SUR 4520 Pediatric Surgery SUBI

Duration: 4 weeks (One Block/Round)

Hours: 8 hours

Grading: Honors/Pass/Fail

Sites: Walter Reed; Naval Medical Center, San Diego; Portsmouth; Children’s National Medical Center

Course #: SUR 4581 ENT SUBI

Duration: 4 weeks (One Block/Round)

Hours: 8 hours

Grading: Honors/Pass/Fail

Sites: Walter Reed; San Antonio Military Medical Center; Madigan; Tripler; Portsmouth; Naval Medical Center, San Diego

SUR 4630 Urology SUBI

Sites: WRNMMC, SAMMC, MAMC, TAMC, NMCP, NMCSD, ***UTHSCSA

Comments: Registration for University of Texas Health Science Center San Antonio REQUIRES a 114 Form

Course #: SUR 4630 Urology SUBI

Duration: 4 weeks (One Block/Round)

Hours: 8 hours

Grading: Honors/Pass/Fail

Sites: Walter Reed; San Antonio Military Medical Center; Madigan; Tripler; Portsmouth; Naval Medical Center, San Diego; University of Texas Health Science Center, San Antonio (UTHSCSA)*

Comments: Registration for UTHSCSA REQUIRES a 114 Form

Course #: SUR 4650 Orthopedic Surgery SUBI (Class of 2022 Post-Clerkship Course Only)

Duration: 4 weeks (One Block/Round)

Hours: 8 hours

Grading: Honors/Pass/Fail

Sites: Walter Reed; San Antonio Military Medical Center; Ft. Gordon; Madigan; Tripler; Ft. Benning; Portsmouth; Naval Medical Center, San Diego; William Beaumont Army Medical Center

Course #: SUR 4670 Plastic Surgery SUBI

Duration: 4 weeks (One Block/Round)

Hours: 8 hours

Grading: Honors/Pass/Fail

Sites: Walter Reed; San Antonio Military Medical Center; Naval Medical Center, San Diego; Portsmouth

Course #: SUR 4700 Trauma Surgery SUBI

Duration: 4 weeks (One Block/Round)

Hours: 8 hours

Grading: Honors/Pass/Fail

Sites: Walter Reed; San Antonio Military Medical Center; Scripps Mercy San Diego*; UMD Shock Trauma; Washington Hospital Center

Comments: Registration for Sscripps REQUIRES a 114 Form

Course #: SUR 4710 Surgical ICU/Med SURG ICU SUBI

Duration: 4 weeks (One Block/Round)

Hours: 8 hours

Grading: Honors/Pass/Fail

Sites: Walter Reed; San Antonio Military Medical Center; Ft. Gordon; Tripler; Naval Medical Center, San Diego; Washington Hospital Center

Course #: SUR 4760 Neurosurgery SUBI

Duration: 4 weeks (One Block/Round)

Hours: 8 hours

Grading: Honors/Pass/Fail

Sites: Walter Reed, University of Texas Health Science Center, San Antonio (UTHSCSA)*

Comments: Registration for UTHSCSA REQUIRES a 114 Form

II. Elective Courses: 

NOTE: Courses with an asterisk (*) have a related SUBI listing

Course#: SUR 4400 General Surgery*

Duration: 4 weeks (One Block/Round) 

Hours: 5 hours

Grading: Pass/Fail

Course Description: Participate as a member of a general surgical team, providing inpatient, outpatient, and emergency surgical care.

Sites: Walter Reed; San Antonio Military Medical Center; Ft. Belvoir; Madigan; Ft. Gordon; Landstuhl; Tripler; Ft. Bliss; Ft. Bragg; Travis AFB; Keesler; Wright Patterson; Nellis; Naval Medical Center, San Diego; Portsmouth

Course#: SUR 4420 Cardiothoracic Surgery*

Duration: 4 weeks (One Block/Round) 

Hours: 5 hours

Grading: Pass/Fail

Course Description: Participate in surgical treatment of patients with a wide spectrum of heart and pulmonary diseases, including open heart surgery. Students will master the cardiac examination and clinical adjuncts.

Sites: Walter Reed; San Antonio Military Medical Center; Madigan; Tripler Army Medical Center Travis AFB; Portsmouth

Course#: SUR 4440 Burn Intensive Care Unit*

Duration: 4 weeks (One Block/Round) 

Hours: 5 hours

Grading: Pass/Fail

Course Description: Participate in total care of burn patients; involving invasive monitoring, fluid resuscitation, metabolic/nutritional support, and surgical therapy of wounds.

Sites: San Antonio Military Medical Center; Washington Hospital Center

Course#: SUR 4460 Vascular Surgery*

Duration: 4 weeks (One Block/Round) 

Hours: 5 hours

Grading: Pass/Fail

Course Description: Participate in the preoperative evaluation, diagnosis and management, and operative treatment of vascular disease. Students will master the vascular examination.

Sites: Walter Reed; San Antonio Military Medical Center; Madigan; Tripler; Travis AFB; Naval Medical Center San Diego; Portsmouth

Course#: SUR 4480 Renal Transplantation Rotations

Duration: 4 weeks (One Block/Round) 

Hours: 5 hours

Grading: Pass/Fail

Course Description: Participate as members of a multidisciplinary patient care team, including nephrologists, surgeons, transplant nurse, social workers, dialysis nurse, and immunologists. Includes exposure to transplantation immunology, histocompatibility, and immuno-suppression, as well as transplant harvest and surgical transplantation.

Sites: Walter Reed

Course#: SUR 4510 Pediatric Surgery*

Duration: 4 weeks (One Block/Round) 

Hours: 5 hours

Grading: Pass/Fail

Course Description: Exposure to various aspects of pediatric surgical care to include of neonatal surgical diseases.

Sites: Walter Reed; Naval Medical Center, San Diego; Portsmouth; Children’s National Medical Center

Course#: SUR 4530 Sports Orthopedics

Duration: 4 weeks (One Block/Round) 

Hours: 5 hours

Grading: Pass/Fail

Course Description: Students master a thorough examination of extremities and the operative management of sports injuries; topics include response to soft tissue injury, fractures, and orthopedic traumatology.

Sites: Keller

Course#: SUR 4550 Ophthalmology

Duration: 4 weeks (One Block/Round) 

Hours: 5 hours

Grading: Pass/Fail

Course Description: Introduction to external eye examinations, visual acuity measuring techniques, intraocular pressure measurement, neuro-ophthalmologic examination, slit lamp examination, fundoscopy, and ocular examination in eye injuries.

Sites: Walter Reed; San Antonio Military Medical Center; Ft. Belvoir; LRMC, Germany; Madigan; Tripler; Travis AFB; Naval Medical Center, San Diego; Portsmouth

Course#: SUR 4570 ENT*

Duration: 4 weeks (One Block/Round) 

Hours: 5 hours

Grading: Pass/Fail

Course Description: Exposure to infections and inflammatory diseases of the head and neck, head and neck oncology, traumatology, reconstructive surgery, and otologic diseases and rehabilitation thereof.

Sites: Walter Reed; San Antonio Military Medical Center; Ft. Belvoir; Ft. Gordon; LRMC, Germany; Madigan; Tripler; Travis AFB; United States Air Force Academy, Portsmouth; Naval Medical Center, San Diego

Course#: SUR 4620 Urology*

Duration: 4 weeks (One Block/Round) 

Hours: 5 hours

Grading: Pass/Fail

Course Description: Evaluation, and medical and surgical management of the urinary tract and the male genital tract.

Sites: Walter Reed; San Antonio Military Medical Center; Ft. Belvoir; Madigan; Tripler; Travis AFB; Naval Medical Center, San Diego; Portsmouth; University of Texas Health Science Center San Antonio (UTHSCSA)*

Comments: Registration for UTHSCSA REQUIRES a 114 Form

Course#: SUR 4640 Orthopedic Surgery*

Duration: 4 weeks (One Block/Round) 

Hours: 5 hours

Grading: Pass/Fail

Course Description: Student master a thorough examination of extremities and the operative management of orthopedic conditions.

Sites: Walter Reed; San Antonio Military Medical Center; Ft. Belvoir; Ft. Gordon; LRMC, Germany; Madigan; Tripler; Ft. Bliss; Ft. Bragg; Ft. Benning; Ft. Mead; Travis AFB; Keesler; United States Air Force Academy; Portsmouth; Naval Medical Center, San Diego

Course#: SUR 4660 Plastic Surgery*

Duration: 4 weeks (One Block/Round) 

Hours: 5 hours

Grading: Pass/Fail

Course Description: Exposure to the field of aesthetic surgery with some experience in the management of ordinary minor surgical problems, reconstructive surgery of trauma and congenital anomalies, and tissue transplantation techniques.

Sites: Walter Reed; San Antonio Military Medical Center; Ft. Belvoir; Ft. Gordon; Tripler; Ft. Bliss; Travis AFB; Keesler; Portsmouth; Naval Medical Center, San Diego

Course#: SUR 4690 Trauma Surgery*

Duration: 4 weeks (One Block/Round) 

Hours: 5 hours

Grading: Pass/Fail

Course Description: Member of a Trauma Team, with exposure to initial evaluation and resuscitation, and a wide perspective of trauma care/systems; from epidemiology of injury, to life-saving procedures.

Sites: Walter Reed; San Antonio Military Medical Center; Scripps Mercy, San Diego*; UMD Shock Trauma; Washington Hospital Center

Comments: Registration for Scripps REQUIRES a 114 Form

Course#: SUR 4720 Surgical ICU/Med SURG ICU*

Duration: 4 weeks (One Block/Round) 

Hours: 5 hours

Grading: Pass/Fail

Course Description: Member of a Critical Care Team, with exposure to care issues such as ethical considerations, management of ventilators, ongoing resuscitations, drugs used in the ICU setting, and placement of invasive lines for monitoring.

Sites: Walter Reed; San Antonio Military Medical Center; Ft. Gordon; Tripler; Ft. Bliss; Travis AFB;  Naval Medical Center, San Diego; Washington Hospital Center

Course#: SUR 4750 Neurosurgery*

Duration: 4 weeks (One Block/Round) 

Hours: 5 hours

Grading: Pass/Fail

Course Description: Exposure to evaluating patients with a variety of neurological complaints, in order to enhance skills in performing neurological exams, and in formulating/evaluating appropriate differential diagnostic possibilities.

Sites: Walter Reed; San Antonio Military Medical Center; Madigan; Tripler; Travis AFB; Naval Medical Center, San Diego; Portsmouth; University of Texas Health Science Center San Antonio (UTHSCSA)*

Comments: Registration for UTHSCSA REQUIRES a 114 Form

Course#: SUR 4755 Community Multi-Specialty Surgery

Duration: 4 weeks (One Block/Round) 

Hours: 5 hours

Grading: Pass/Fail

Course Description: Students participate in treating patients in multiple surgical specialties in a small hospital setting, gaining exposure to a broad spectrum of procedures and techniques. Prior Department approval is necessary for this rotation.

Sites: Multiple Sites

Comments: Registration REQUIRES a 114 Form

Course#: SUR 4758 International Surgery

Duration: 4 weeks (One Block/Round) 

Hours: 5 hours

Grading: Pass/Fail

Course Description: Students gain surgical experience at an international location. This experience is often multispecialty, with students participating in a variety of patient care settings and procedures. Prior department approval is necessary for this rotation.

Sites: Multiple Sites

Comments: Registration REQUIRES a 114 Form