Subinternship in Inpatient Family Medicine
This four week clerkship is open to fourth year students who have already completed inpatient rotations in medicine and pediatrics. This advanced inpatient experience provides an opportunity for motivated students to challenge themselves with an in-depth experience in inpatient family medicine. The goal of the experience is to help prepare future family physicians to provide high quality inpatient management of common problems, including procedures and medical emergencies.
On this service you will function at the intern level as a member of the Teaching Service team, which consists of two upper year residents and two other interns. Your team will care for approximately 20 inpatients who are offered to the service by hospitalists, hospital-based specialists, and community-based family practitioners, pediatricians, and internists. Your responsibilities will include performing admission histories and physicals, daily work rounds and progress notes, dictating discharge summaries, and responding to hospital emergencies. You will be on call every fourth to fifth night throughout the rotation. A private on call room, beeper, and palm pilot are provided for your use during the rotation.
During your month on service you will participate in multiple daily teaching opportunities, including morning report, hospitalist teaching rounds, and subspecialty conferences. You will also be released from your inpatient duties each Wednesday afternoon to attend half day conferences with the family medicine residents.
Address all correspondence and questions to:
Kathy Tardif
Program Coordinator
Family Medicine Residency Program
Middlesex Hospital
90 South Main Street
Middletown, CT 06457
1-800-664-5031 ext. 6418
FAX (860) 358-6650
Kathleen_tardif@midhosp.org