Institution: Greenville Hospital System

Location: Greenville, South Carolina

Duration: 4 weeks

Course Offered: Periods 2 - 10

Number of Students: 1 per rotation

Students Report To: Natalie Carey, Medical Student Coordinator,
(864) 455-5494, Main Lobby of Greenville Memorial Hospital,
9:30 a.m.

This course is offered as a consultative rotation in clinical Infectious Disease. Students are assigned to work with the attendings and usually one PGYII or III Internal Medicine resident. The student will be responsible for first patient contact with patients referred to the Infectious Disease consult service. These patients will then be presented to the resident and the faculty. The student will be responsible for recording the history, physical and orders with countersignature by the resident and faculty. The average number of consults seen is one and a half per day.

There is a biweekly Infectious Disease clinic which the student will also be expected to attend. Outpatients in the office of Drs. Kelly, Schrank, Potts and Weems are also available for teaching depending upon the consultation workload.

At the end of this rotation the student should be able to discuss and understand the appropriate use of antibiotic therapy. They should be able to understand the common entities in Infectious Disease such as FUO, hepatitis, STD, septicemia, osteomyelitis, endocarditis, AIDS, postoperative wound infections, etc.