The Clinical Skills Clerkship is a transition clerkship occurring between 2nd and 3rd year. The course focuses on an introduction to the clerkships, with a specific focus on skills related to each clerkship, such as taking a history, performing a physical examination, writing notes and presenting patients. The course focuses on professionalism and medical student wellness. Finally, there is a procedural component to the clerkship where students learn skills such as intubation, nasogastric tube insertion and ACLS.
Assessment Methods | Grade Composition |
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Successful completion of course OSCEs | Required |
Attendance in small group and procedure sessions | Required |
Internal medicine H&P assignment | Formative |
Ob/Gyn H&P assignment | Formative |
Written evaluation by CSC TA | Formative |
Objectives
- Describe the “culture” of different medical specialties including training requirements as well as common health care venues and diagnoses
- Write specialty-specific progress notes
- Perform an oral presentation of a patient in a specialty specific manner
- Interpret common diagnostic studies (CXR and EKG) in the evaluation of a patient
- Use clinical reasoning to write a problem-based plan
- Use online decision making, pharmaceutical reference, and resource tools in the care of patients
- Describe the evaluation process during clerkships, both by students of faculty and by faculty of students
- Function as an interprofessional team in the screening and management of opioid use disorders
- Describe the indications for specific procedures
- Practice performing specific procedures
- Properly document specific procedures
- Assist in airway management
- Recognize dysrhythmias
- Apply resuscitation guidelines to an unstable patient