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The core clerkship learning outcomes are aligned with the Entrustable Professional Activities (EPA’s) as defined by the AAMC. For more information, see the Core Entrustable Professional Activities for Entering Residency publication (PDF).
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Clerkship Director: Sarah Pickle, MD Email: picklesr@ucmail.uc.edu
Clerkship Coordinator: Nancy Jamison Office: Medical Sciences Building Room 4304 Phone: 513-558-1435 Email: nancy.jamison@uc.edu
The Family Medicine third-year clerkship is a required four-week outpatient rotation. Students are placed in a community or residency site and become an integral part of the health care team. The clerkship emphasizes strengthening competencies in history taking, physical examination skills, problem differentiation, disease prevention and management, written and oral presentations. In applying these basic skills the student will develop an understanding of the importance of the concept of a medical home in patient care: comprehensive, patient-centered, longitudinal primary care. Working one-on-one with family physicians, students will integrate knowledge of the basic sciences with the biopsychosocial factors that critically impact a patient’s experience of illness and health in the care of the patient.
Clerkship Director: LeAnn Coberly, MD Email: leann.coberly@uc.edu
Clerkship Coordinator: Gabriela Ionascu Office: Medical Sciences Building Room 6055 Phone: 513-558-2592 Email: ionascgi@ucmail.uc.edu
The Internal Medicine third-year clerkship is an eight-week rotation consisting of four weeks on an inpatient service and four weeks in ambulatory care. Our goal is to help students make the transition from a basic science student to a member of the health care team. On the inpatient service, students are assigned to general internal medicine and subspecialty ward teams and given patient care responsibility commensurate for their level of training under the supervision of interns, senior residents and attending physicians. The educational emphasis is on history and physical examination skills and problem definition. In the ambulatory setting, students are given significant patient-care responsibility in the Student Clinic, community preceptor office, and in an Internal Medicine subspecialty clinic.
Clerkship Director: Starla Wise, MD Email: wises3@ucmail.uc.edu Clerkship Coordinator: Angela Bustamante Office: Stetson Phone: 513-558-2968 Email: bustamam@ucmail.uc.edu
The Neuroscience third-year clerkship is a four-week rotation consisting of four weeks on inpatient and/or outpatient service, dependent on chosen discipline. This clerkship is designed to train physicians to approach neurological disease in a step-by-step fashion that helps them to accurately diagnose common neurological problems (both life-threatening and not) by developing excellent history taking and physical exam skills, utilizing diagnostic tests skillfully and improving patient outcomes by selecting treatments that are effective, safe and not wasteful of people’s money. Students can choose from one of four disciplines in which to learn clinical neuroscience: neurology, neurosurgery, pediatric neurology or physical medicine rehabilitation.
Clerkship Director: Jane Morris, MD Email: morri4j9@ucmail.uc.edu Clerkship Coordinator: Natalie Cassady Office: Medical Sciences Building Room 4461 Phone: 513-558-7653 Email: cassadnc@ucmail.uc.edu
The Obstetrics and Gynecology third-year clerkship is a six-week rotation that consists of four weeks of inpatient care and two weeks of ambulatory care. The inpatient service is equally divided between obstetrics and gynecology at one of six hospitals in the Tristate. The obstetrics portion may consist of normal labor and delivery, high-risk obstetrics (maternal fetal medicine) or routine prenatal care. Gynecology may include benign gynecology, gynecologic oncology or reproductive endocrinology and infertility. The objective of the curriculum in obstetrics and gynecology is that the student learns the basic skills, attitudes and knowledge that are essential in dealing with women patients and learns how to apply the science of medicine in a caring and compassionate manner so as to benefit the patient.
Clerkship Director: Corinne Lehmann, MD Email: corinne.lehmann@uc.edu Clerkship Coordinator: Mimi Pence Office: Kasota 553 (Cincinnati Children’s Burnet Campus) Phone: 513-636-0339 Email: mimi.pence@cchmc.org
The Pediatrics third-year clerkship is an eight-week clinical rotation designed to present the fundamentals of pediatrics which should be mastered by any physician, as well as to provide a sound foundation for those choosing to enter the specialty. Clinical experience is split between four weeks of inpatient and four weeks of outpatient medicine. This clerkship is a specialty of medicine dealing with the physical, mental, and psychosocial health of infants, children, and adolescents. The primary expectation of this clerkship is achievement of the competencies of an adapted curriculum developed by the Council on Medical Student Education in Pediatrics (COMSEP).
Clerkship Director: Peirce Johnston, MD Email: peirce.johnston@uc.edu Clerkship Coordinator: Sonya Kirkland Email: kirklasy@ucmail.uc.edu
The Psychiatry third-year clerkship is a six-week rotation in which each student is actively involved in patient care on two inpatient units, an outpatient clinic, and the Psychiatric Emergency Room. The overarching clerkship objective is to provide medical students with a broad clinical exposure and greater understanding of the epidemiology, presentation, evaluation and treatment of common psychiatric disorders. Two consecutive three-week rotations working on an inpatient psychiatric unit allow the students to care for patients in acute crises as a part of a multidisciplinary treatment team. At the conclusion of the clerkship, students are able to elicit a psychiatric history, mental status examination and formulate a comprehensive treatment plan that incorporates the biologic, psychotherapeutic and social needs of their patients.
Clerkship Director: Latifa Silski, MD Email: sagesila@ucmail.uc.edu Clerkship Coordinator: Nicole Norman Office: Medical Sciences Building Room 1586 Phone: 513-558-2134 Email:normanno@ucmail.uc.edu
The Surgery third-year clerkship is an eight-week inpatient rotation. During that time, students will be an integral part of the surgical team, be responsible for patient care, and will participate in surgical procedures. The activities of general surgeons and surgeons in specialty fields will be experienced firsthand in both inpatient and outpatient settings. The students will learn basic surgical techniques and wound management. Upon clerkship completion, students are expected to understand the basics of surgical disease processes, as well as the decision making used to manage surgical patients.
Phase 2 Curriculum Director
Clerkship Director: Thomas James, MD Email: thomas.james@uc.edu Clerkship Coordinator: Julie Karpe Office: Medical Sciences Building Room 3054 Phone: 513-558-2426 Email: karpeje@ucmail.uc.edu
In the Anesthesia Specialty Clerkship, time is primarily spent in the operating room with the student gaining experience in the pre-, peri- and post-operative management of patients. Techniques for vascular access are included as part of the training for patient management of fluid and electrolyte balance. Students are exposed to anesthetic techniques for patient management. The pharmacology of anesthetic agents is seen clinically with an emphasis on interpreting the interactions of these drugs and the rapid onset of medication given intravenously. The student has opportunity for airway management, including intubation, in the operating room setting.
The student will be part of a multidisciplinary team in the care of critically ill patients with cardiac disease. She/he will support a senior resident in the care of patients with diseases such as heart failure, cardiogenic shock, acute myocardial infarction and arrythmias. There will be opportunities to observe central venous lines, arterial lines, mechanical ventilation, cardioversion etc. Given the acuity of ICU medicine and the short duration of this clerkship, it will be by necessity more shadowing and self-directed learning.
Clerkship Director: Teresa Meier, MD Email: meierta@ucmail.uc.edu Clerkship Coordinator: Lydia Wocher / Michelle Reinhart Office: Barrett Center, Room 1071 (Lydia) / Barrett Center, Room 1060 (Karen) Phone: 513-584-8216 (Lydia) / 513-584-9089 (Karen) Email: reinhamh@ucmail.uc.edu lydia.wocher@uchealth.com
Clerkship Director:Cristin Shaughnessy, MDEmail: shaughcn@ucmail.uc.eduClerkship Coordinator:Bethany StollarOffice: Medical Sciences Building Room 1202APhone: 513-558-6214Email: stollaby@ucmail.uc.edu
Clerkship Directors:Edmund Irankunda, MDEmail: edmond.irankunda@uc.edu
Clerkship Coordinator:Caitlyn HadsellOffice: Medical Sciences Building Room 1551DPhone: 513-558-5552Email: hadselcn@ucmail.uc.edu
The Emergency Medicine Specialty Clerkship exposes the student to a wide variety of acutely ill patients presenting to an urban emergency department. Time on the clerkship is divided between several distinct areas in the emergency department, each offering a different mix of patient types and supervising personnel. Eight and twelve-hour shifts are spent working in the main emergency department (A-pod, C-pod) seeing patients with acute medical, surgical, gynecologic, neurologic and toxicologic presentations. This portion of the clerkship allows the student to participate in the initial evaluation of patients with unknown diagnoses and exercise skills in physical diagnosis, history taking, performance and interpretation of diagnostic tests, oral presentation, formulation of differential diagnoses and clinical reasoning. Students will have the opportunity to participate in the performance of procedures such as venipuncture, arterial puncture and passage of nasogastric tubes and urinary drainage catheters. Students also will be exposed to critically ill patients in the Shock/Resuscitation Unit of the department. Several 10-hour shifts are spent in the Minor Care area of the department. Minor Care serves patients with focused complaints who generally can be definitively treated in the emergency department, or referred for outpatient treatment following temporizing emergency department management. The Minor Care portion of the clerkship allows the student to participate in a broad variety of procedures including local anesthesia, wound debridement and suturing, splinting, conscious sedation, incision and drainage of abscesses and slit-lamp evaluation of the eye.
Clerkship Director: Jeffrey Schlaudecker, MD Email: jeffrey.schlaudecker@uc.edu Clerkship Coordinator: Natalie Seaburn Office: MSB 4011 Phone: 513-558-4021 Email: quinnne@ucmail.uc.edu
Clerkship Director: LeAnn Coberly, MD Email: leann.coberly@uc.edu Clerkship Coordinator: Gabriela Ionascu Office: Medical Sciences Building Room 6055 Phone: 513-558-2592 Email: ionascgi@ucmail.uc.edu
The students will gain exposure to the multidisciplinary care of critically ill patients. Students will be paired with an upper level resident in a supportive role in the care of the resident's panel of patients. There will be exposure to ventilator management, procedures such as central venous lines, arterial lines etc. Given the acuity of ICU medicine and the short duration of this clerkship, it will be by necessity more shadowing and self-directed learning.
Clerkship Director: Lisa Kelly, MD Email: lisa.kelly@uc.edu Clerkship Coordinator: Michele Wyan Office: Stetson Building Room 5302 Phone: 513-558-0815 Email: michele.wyan@uc.edu
Clerkship Director: Tonya Dixon, MD Email: dixont2@ucmail.uc.edu Clerkship Coordinator: Gina Traylor Office: Medical Sciences Building Room 5502 Phone: 513-558-4516 Email: gina.traylor@uc.edu
Clerkship Director: Reena Dhanda-Patil, MD Email: reenadhanda1@gmail.com Clerkship Co-Director: Catherine Hart, M.D. Email: Catherine.Hart@cchmc.org Clerkship Coordinator: Angie Keith Office: Medical Sciences Building Room 6413 Phone: 513-558-5391 Email: keithae@ucmail.uc.edu
Clerkship Director: Rachel Jug, MD Email: jugrl@ucmail.uc.edu Clerkship Coordinator: Lindsay Stover Office: 4067 Phone: 513-584-1323 Email: stoverlr@ucmail.uc.ed
Clerkship Director:Amy Guiot, MDEmail: amy.guiot@cchmc.org
Clerkship Coordinator:Mimi PenceOffice: 3333 Burnet Ave, MLC 3009Phone: 513-636-0339Email: mimi.pence@cchmc.org
The student will participate in all clinical activities of the Division of Human Genetics including dysmorphology and genetic assessments of infants and children, inpatient consults, genetic counseling, prenatal diagnosis, outreach and specialty clinics. Structure will be one week inpatient with consults and one week outpatient with clinics.
This rotation is designed to give students exposure to a breadth of developmental and behavioral topics. Students will participate in multi-disciplinary team evaluations of children with neurodevelopmental disabilities, including autism spectrum disorder, intellectual disability, and genetic syndromes. Students will observe and have opportunities to develop their skills in taking comprehensive developmental histories, completing physical exams on children with developmental delays, understanding medication management of symptoms of developmental diagnoses, and connecting families with both hospital-based and community resources.
This two-week observational experience serves to expose students to pediatric physical medicine and rehabilitation. Students will rotate through a variety of outpatient clinics to explore pediatric rehab (e.g. cerebral palsy, brain injury, spinal cord injury, spina bifida, neuromuscular, cancer rehab)
Clerkship Director:Brian Guarnieri, MDEmail: guarnibj@ucmail.uc.eduClerkship Coordinator:Annalee CochranOffice: Medical Sciences Building Room E688-APhone: 513-558-6098Email: cochraa5@ucmail.uc.edu
The Radiology Clerkship provides a general understanding of the spectrum of diagnostic imaging and diagnostic and therapeutic image-guided interventional techniques. The student will understand the role of Radiology in medical care, and will appreciate the patient's perspective of undergoing medical imaging or intervention. This specialty clerkship provides general education regarding the indications and appropriateness of imaging studies for common clinical problems and an understanding of the appropriate sequencing of exams and the limitations of diagnostic imaging tests. In addition, students are presented with introductory education on imaging techniques and a general approach to the interpretation of diagnostic studies. The complexity of imaging interpretation and the value of training and experience are emphasized.
Clerkship Director: Wesley Baas, MD Email: baaswy@ucmail.uc.edu Clerkship Coordinator: Violisha Chaney Office: Medical Sciences Building Room 2513 Phone: 1 513 558 3678 Email: willisva@ucmail.uc.edu
Amy Guiot, MD
Phase 3 Curriculum Director
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