STUDENT INFORMATION
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Year three
- Child Health Clerkship
Students have the opportunity to learn about common illnesses and
abnormalities in children. Emphasis also is placed on the importance
of preventive and developmental aspects of child care. Lectures and
case presentations correlate with the clinical experiences.
- Family and Community Medicine Clerkship
Core learning experiences take place in ambulatory clinic settings.
Students work with experienced clinicians and senior residents, spending
time in University teaching practices and in community-based practices.
Students also may spend time seeing patients in emergency room, hospital,
nursing home settings and taking call with residents and practicing
physicians. A high volume of patients of all ages with a wide range
of problems is encountered. Many patients will have undifferentiated
problems.
- Internal Medicine Clerkship
Students spend eight weeks on the internal medicine inpatient service
at University Hospital and Harry S. Truman Veterans Hospital, where
they learn to care for adult patients with acute and chronic illnesses.
Teaching emphasizes the principles of differential diagnosis and problem
solving as well as the integration of basic science information into
the art of patient care. Students also gain clinical experience in
medical interviewing and physical examination.
- Obstetrics/Gynecology Clerkship
Students rotate on the obstetric service, the gynecology service and
the gynecologic oncology service, seeing a broad range of patients
in both inpatient and outpatient settings. In addition, they attend
lectures and interactive case presentations.
- Neurology Clerkship
Students see patients with neurological disorders in the outpatient
clinics, in hospital settings, and on consultation services.
- Psychiatry Clerkship
Students see patients with psychiatric disorders in the outpatient
clinics, in hospital settings and on consultation services.
- Surgery Clerkship
Emphasis is placed on the diagnosis and treatment of disorders requiring
surgical intervention. Each student has a faculty mentor-adviser,
attends faculty discussion sessions that cover objectives in the required
textbooks and takes call under the supervision of surgical residents.
Students are assigned patients from all surgical specialties, participate
in preoperative examinations and evaluations, assist during surgical
procedures and follow the postoperative management process.
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