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Amy Guiot, MDM4 Elective Director
The College of Medicine requires that every fourth-year medical student complete two months of Acting Internship (AI). The Acting Intern is given primary patient care responsibility on an inpatient service under the direction of first-year residents, senior residents and an attending physician. Students will partake in a 4 week training of Internal Medicine and 4 weeks of training from one of the following disciplines below:
Clerkship Director: Peirce Johnston, MD Email: peirce.johnston@uc.edu Clerkship Coordinator: Amy Boeing Email: rotertaj@ucmail.uc.edu
The student will provide clinical care to patients with psychiatric disorders (i.e. bipolar disorder, schizophrenia, anxiety disorders, etc.
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
Students are exposed to all aspects of general anesthesia, same day surgery, and PACU, including evaluation and management throughout the immediate perioperative period.
Clerkship Directors: John Campbell, MD Email: campbejb@UCMAIL.UC.EDU
Clerkship Coordinator: Paula Klepper Office: Medical Sciences Building Room 1654 Phone: 513-558-8996 Email: kleppepd@ucmail.uc.edu
Working one-on-one with faculty and senior residents, students will care for patients across the whole spectrum of acuity in the ED and simulation center and perform a variety of procedures. In this course, students learn how to approach the undifferentiated patient and build patient management skills by functioning as interns, formulating their own plans, placing orders, and documenting on all patient encounters.
Clerkship Director: Anisasattara Shomo MD Email: drshomo@gmail.com
Clerkship Coordinator: Nancy Jamison Office: Medical Sciences Building Room 4304 Phone: 513-558-1435 Email: nancy.jamison@uc.edu
The student will be an active team member of the Family Medicine Inpatient Service which cares for over 200 patients per month. Students will participate in general medicine inpatient care and consultations.
Clerkship Directors: 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 gynecology AI is a member of the Gynecology or Gynecologic Oncology team at UCMC or Bethesda North Hospital. The student participates in surgeries and follows patients postoperatively. Inpatient and emergency department consults are also provided. They participate in specialty clinics as well. Weekend rounding will be required.
Working closely with faculty and senior residents, the student will care for patients across the whole spectrum of acuity and across the entire admission for patients on Labor & Delivery. In this course, the student will learn how to approach the undifferentiated obstetric patient and build patient management skills by functioning as an intern. The L&D AI will manage patients from admission to delivery and throughout the inpatient postpartum course while learning how to perform procedures such as a spontaneous vaginal delivery, cesarean section, OB laceration repair, etc.
Clerkship Directors: John Quinlan, MD Email: john.quinlan@uc.edu Starla Wise, MD EMail: wises3@ucmail.uc.edu Clerkship Coordinator: Angela Bustamante Office: Stetson Phone: 513-558-2968 Email: bustamam@ucmail.uc.edu
The student will function as the primary caregiver in the inpatient setting as part of a team of residents and faculty. The student will complete admission orders, history and physicals, diagnosis, follow-up care, and discharge planning under the supervision of attending faculty and senior residents. Will attend neurology resident conferences.
The obstetrics AI is a member of the OB Specialist (low-risk OB) or Maternal Fetal Medicine (high-risk OB) services at UCMC or Good Samaritan Hospital. A gradual increase in responsibilities and complexity of postpartum, antepartum, and triage patients occurs over the 4 weeks. Students assist with preparing for Planned Procedures, which may include circumcisions. Students may also assist on vaginal deliveries and C-sections. The weeks may be divided between days and nights depending on the service and enrollment. Night or weekend rounding will be required.
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 student will function at the level of an intern on in inpatient pediatric team. The student will admit new patients, perform history and physical exam, input orders in EPIC, provide follow up care, cross cover patients, and discharge patients. The student will follow an intern schedule with regards to daily and overnight responsibilities as well as attend all resident conferences.
Clerkship Director: Latifa Silski Email: sagesila@ucmail.uc.edu Clerkship Coordinator: Nikki Norman Office: Medical Sciences Building Room 1586 Phone: 513-558-2134 Email: normanno@ucmail.uc.edu
This course provides both inpatient and outpatient experience in general surgery at the acting internship level with preoperative, intra and postoperative exposure to a wide variety of patients.
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16 elective weeks must be UC College of Medicine electives done in Cincinnati. Students will have 4 weeks of Internal Medicine Selective (IM) Selective listing and 12 weeks of Intensive Clinical Experience (ICE) Elective listings.
8 elective weeks of undesignated electives that may be taken outside of Cincinnati. All away electives must be approved by the appropriate UC elective director prior to taking the elective.
Medical Sciences Building Room G453 - G456 231 Albert Sabin Way PO Box 670520 Cincinnati, OH 45267-0520
Mail Location: 0520 Phone: 513-558-1795 Fax: 513-558-4949