Clerkships
Eisenhower Health’s Graduate Medical Education Program has a strong commitment to teaching medical students. Eisenhower Health routinely hosts medical students upon approval of an affiliation agreement. Our main key focus is to provide excellent teaching service to all students.
Clerkships give students the experience and opportunity in all aspects of the hospital setting. Our rotation opportunities include general inpatient services, emergency department and various other departments that allow learning by viewing and doing. Students are shadowing practicing preceptor MDs as well current residents throughout the rotation. Our goal is to provide the fundamentals in the value of teaching and management of care.
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Information & Dates
Wirachin Hoonpongsimanont, MD
Description
This four week clerkship is designed for the student to see urgent and emergent cases independently, and then present the cases to the attending physician who will verify the H&P in order to develop a plan for evaluation, treatment, and disposition.
Expectations and Goals
The student will be exposed to the specialty of emergency medicine, experience the initial approach to patients in need of emergent medical care, and will become more comfortable with procedures common in emergency medicine.
Prerequisite:
Completion of third year of medical student
Duration:
4 weeks
Location:
EMC Tennity Emergency Department
Time of rotation:
14 ten-hours shifts
Scheduled for 5am, 9am, 10am, 3pm, and 7pm
Required education sessions:
- Weekly Conferences (Every Thursday)
- Procedure Workshop (First Tuesday)
- Student Presentations (Third Thursday)
- SAEM Exam (Fourth Friday at 8am)
Important notes:
We limited the number of learners in the emergency department to ensure the quality of the rotation. Therefore, we offer the rotations to student who are applying to emergency medicine residency. Do not apply through VSAS website.
| Month | Dates |
|---|---|
| January | January 9 – February 5, 2023 |
| February | February 6 – March 2, 2023 |
| March | March 6 – April 2, 2023 |
| April | April 3 – 30, 2023 |
| May | May 1 – 28, 2023 |
| June | May 29 – June 25, 2023 |
Available Dates for 2023-24
| Month | Dates |
|---|---|
| July | June 26 – July 23, 2023 |
| August | July 24 – August 20, 2023 |
| August | August 21 – September 17, 2023 |
| September | September 18 – October 15, 2023 |
| October | October 16 – November 12, 2023 |
| November | November 13 – December 10, 2023 |
| December | December 11, 2023 – January 7, 2024 |
| January | January 8 – February 4, 2024 |
| February | February 5 – March 3, 2024 |
| March | March 4 – 31, 2024 |
| April | April 1 – 28, 2024 |
| May | April 29 – May 26, 2024 |
| June | May 27 – June 23, 2024 |
Ami Kurzweil, MD
Description
In order to provide medical students with hands-on emergency medicine ultrasound experience, active participation in performing ultrasound, reviewing learning materials are emphasized.
Practical and didactic experience that will enable medical students to become proficient with routine Emergency Ultrasound (EUS) applications. Medical students will gain understanding of both indications and limitations of ED-US, as well as staying up to date with most current ED-US literature and research. By end of rotation, medical students will have completed a curriculum covering basic and advanced EM-US applications and will be able to fully integrate EM-US into their daily practice.
Expectations and Goals
The course consists of experiences in performing ultrasound in the ED to aid patient care, weekly conferences, QA session and summary report presentations.
The Ultrasound (US) rotation will consist of a 4 week block with 20 US shifts in the emergency department (Mon-Fri). 4 of those shifts will include 4 hours of hands-on scanning and training directly supervised by Ultrasound Faculty. Medical students will also participate in 1 day/week ultrasound video review (quality assurance – QA) sessions with Ultrasound Faculty. The medical student will then have an additional 14 shifts wherein they will spend most of the day scanning patients and doing US guided procedures under direct supervision of ED attending staff. Depending on scheduling, the medical student may be on the rotation independently or concurrently with other medical students or residents.
The medical student is expected to perform 150-200 ultrasound scans over the course of the month and become proficient in procedures such as ultrasound guided IV’s. The medical student will also present an ultrasound research article of their choosing to the ultrasound faculty. They are also expected to take an end of rotation multiple choice test and hands-on ultrasound assessment.
Medical students per block: capped at 2 per block
Schedule is Monday – Friday from 9am – 5pm
Available Dates for 2023
| Month | Dates |
|---|---|
| January | January 9 – February 5, 2023 |
| February | February 6 – March 2, 2023 |
| March | March 6 – April 2, 2023 |
| April | April 3 – 30, 2023 |
| May | May 1 – 28, 2023 |
| June | May 29 – June 25, 2023 |
Available Dates for 2023-24
| Month | Dates |
|---|---|
| July | June 26 – July 23, 2023 |
| August | July 24 – August 20, 2023 |
| August | August 21 – September 17, 2023 |
| September | September 18 – October 15, 2023 |
| October | October 16 – November 12, 2023 |
| November | November 13 – December 10, 2023 |
| December | December 11, 2023 – January 7, 2024 |
| January | January 8 – February 4, 2024 |
| February | February 5 – March 3, 2024 |
| March | March 4 – 31, 2024 |
| April | April 1 – 28, 2024 |
| May | April 29 – May 26, 2024 |
| June | May 27 – June 23, 2024 |
Rajdeep Brar, MDDescription
This four week sub-internship is designed to include the fourth-year medical student as a core member of the Family Medicine Inpatient Service team.
Expectations and Goals
The sub-intern will assess acutely ill patients, formulate appropriate differential diagnoses, and develop evaluation and treatment plans using current evidence-based guidelines. Additionally, the sub-intern will model Family Medicine at the bedside by adopting a patient- and family-centered approach to care, engaging patients in shared decision-making, partnering with patients’ families of choice, and communicating with each patient’s primary care provider to improve care transitions from admission through discharge.
Medical student per block: 1
Available Dates for 2023
| Month | Dates |
|---|---|
| January | January 9 – February 5, 2023 |
| February | February 6 – March 2, 2023 |
| March | March 6 – April 2, 2023 |
| April | April 3 – 30, 2023 |
| May | May 1 – 28, 2023 |
| June | May 29 – June 25, 2023 |
Available Dates for 2023-24
| Month | Dates |
|---|---|
| August | July 24 – August 20, 2023 |
| August | August 21 – September 17, 2023 |
| September | September 18 – October 15, 2023 |
| October | October 16 – November 12, 2023 |
| November | November 13 – December 10, 2023 |
| December | December 11, 2023 – January 7, 2024 |
| January | January 8 – February 4, 2024 |
| February | February 5 – March 3, 2024 |
| March | March 4 – 31, 2024 |
| April | April 1 – 28, 2024 |
| May | April 29 – May 26, 2024 |
| June | May 27 – June 23, 2024 |
Wendy White, MDDescription
This four week clerkship is designed to provide an in-depth exposure to high quality care in the inpatient setting. This rotation differs from the traditional medicine rotation in that students have the opportunity to be exposed to more patients, as multiple patients are admitted each day, rather than on a rotating call schedule.
Expectations and Goals
The rotation focuses on evaluation and management of common hospital based internal medicine pathology and inpatient medical consultations on surgical patients, students work directly with hospitalists on the service without the involvement of house staff.
Internal Medicine Requirements
- Applicants should apply after the completion of the Internal Medicine Core Clerkship in order to have their transcripts reflected.
- Please apply after taken the USMLE Step 1
Available Dates for 2023
| Month | Dates |
|---|---|
| January | January 9 – February 5, 2023 |
| February | February 6 – March 2, 2023 |
| March | March 6 – April 2, 2023 |
| April | April 3 – 30, 2023 |
| May | May 1 – 28, 2023 |
| June | May 29 – June 25, 2023 |
Available Dates for 2023-24
| Month | Dates |
|---|---|
| August | July 24 – August 20, 2023 |
| August | August 21 – September 17, 2023 |
| September | September 18 – October 15, 2023 |
| October | October 16 – November 12, 2023 |
| November | November 13 – December 10, 2023 |
| December | December 11, 2023 – January 7, 2024 |
| January | January 8 – February 4, 2024 |
| February | February 5 – March 3, 2024 |
| March | March 4 – 31, 2024 |
| April | April 1 – 28, 2024 |
| May | April 29 – May 26, 2024 |
| June | May 27 – June 23, 2024 |
Apply To Our Clerkship Program
Eisenhower Health requires all employees, including all Visiting Rotators, to be fully vaccinated against COVID-19; and upon the start of their rotation, each visiting rotator will need to provide proof of vaccination to Employee Health.
For more information, please contact the Clerkship Coordinator at srodriguezacosta@eisenhowerhealth.org.
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