| ACTING INTERNSHIPS Course Description and Objectives In February 2001, the Curriculum Committee endorsed a new requirement to the fourth-year medical student curriculum to start in July, 2003. Fourth year students will complete a four-week Acting Internship (AI) in one of the following: Internal Medicine, Family Practice, Pediatrics, Psychiatry, Obstetrics and Gynecology, or Surgery. This Acting Internship for senior students emphasizes basic generalist competencies. Inpatient plus or minus ambulatory clinical learning experiences are used to achieve mastery of these competencies. The student has primary and direct responsibility for the continuing care of patients in the community or in one of the University of South Carolina School of Medicine programs at Palmetto Health Richland, the Dorn Veterans Affairs Medical Center, or the Greenville Hospital System. The objectives of this program are as follows: A. To provide students with the opportunity for direct and continuing patient care with graduated responsibility beyond the level experienced as third year students. B. To provide students with a variety of common patient problems relative to the discipline chosen. C. To improve student clinical skills, including
D. To provide a transition experience between medical student and resident (house officer) responsibility. Acting interns are essential members of the ward teams, although students’ patient loads can be adjusted according to their aptitude. All selectives must give students substantial inpatient experience. Assessment will focus on core clinical skills. All courses listed for the selective also are available as electives, so any student may take several USCSM acting internships. DEPARTMENT OF FAMILY MEDICINE DEPARTMENT OF INTERNAL MEDICINE DEPARTMENT OF NEUROPSYCHIATRY AND BEHAVIORAL SCIENCE
DEPARTMENT OF OBSTETRICS AND GYNECOLOGY DEPARTMENT OF PEDIATRICS
Pediatric Critical Care
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