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MEDECK 601 P-Ward Medicine Subinternship - Seattle (*, max. 24)
Students act in the capacity of interns on the medical wards under supervision of house staff and visiting physicians. They attend all regular medicine rounds and conferences as their schedules permit. (Four weeks). Prerequisite: third-year required Medicine clerkship. Offered: AWSpS.
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MEDECK 602 P-Primary Care - Seattle (8/12)
Four-week, full-time ambulatory care block in primary care internal medicine. Students participate in several clinics at University of Washington Roosevelt Clinic following a panel of patients in medicine, rheumatology, and virology clinics. Prerequisite: third-year required Medicine clerkship. Offered: AWSpS.
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MEDECK 603 P-Clinical Cardiology and Electrocardiography - Seattle (8)
Clerkship in clinical cardiology-combined inpatient-outpatient assignments, ECG interpretation. (Four weeks). Prerequisite: third-year required Medicine clerkship. Offered: AWSpS.
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MEDECK 605 P-Clinical Endocrinology and Metabolism - Seattle (*, max. 12)
Clerkship in clinical endocrinology and metabolism combined inpatient and outpatient assignments at selected hospitals. Prerequisite: third-year required Medicine clerkship. Offered: AWSpS.
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MEDECK 606 P-Clinical Gastroenterology - Seattle (8)
Participation in consulting ward rounds, procedures, conferences, and selected clinics with full-time divisional staff, plus directed tutorial work. Students are scheduled at one of three sites: UWMC, Harborview Medical Center, and Veterans' Administration hospitals. (Four weeks). Prerequisite: third-year required Medicine clerkship. Offered: AWSpS.
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MEDECK 607 P-Clinical Hematology/Oncology - Seattle (8)
Outpatient and inpatient experience with hematologic/oncologic disorders. The elective includes teaching rounds, conferences, and evaluation of laboratory work. (Four weeks). Prerequisite: third-year required Medicine clerkship. Offered: AWSpS.
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MEDECK 608 P-Clinical Infectious Diseases - Seattle (8)
Students participate in the consulting service throughout the hospital, attend daily plate rounds, conferences, and seminars. Participate in consulting service throughout hospital to learn microbiological aspects of infectious diseases through the clinical laboratories. (Four weeks). Prerequisite: third-year required Medicine clerkship. Offered: AWSpS.
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MEDECK 609 P-Nephrology and Fluid Balance - Seattle (8)
Students see clinical nephrologic problems under close supervision, participate in nephrology and transplant rounds, see consults with renal fellow and attending, and work up patients in renal clinics, participate in seminars with clerks from all three hospitals. (Four weeks). Prerequisite: third-year required Medicine clerkship. Offered: AWSpS.
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MEDECK 610 P-Clinical Respiratory Disease (8)
Training in respiratory disease diagnosis and pulmonary therapy, with special emphasis on cardiopulmonary function testing and interpretation. Inpatient and outpatient teaching rounds, conferences, and basic science integration. (Four weeks). Prerequisite: third-year required Medicine clerkship. Offered: AWSpS.
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MEDECK 611 Advanced Inpatient Geriatrics (8)
This is a unique intensive experience in geriatric and consultative medicine. The "Medicine G" service is a special inpatient service for elderly adults at a major trauma center with active geriatrics presence (outpatient, inpatient, and post-acute); the service provides consultative care with the goal of preventing and managing complications for elderly and often frail and/or medically complex patients. Prerequisite: Successful completion of the third year medicine clerkship Offered: AWSpS.
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MEDECK 612 P-Clinical HIV Care - Seattle (8)
Full-time outpatient and inpatient elective in HIV care for senior medical students. Students see patients for routine care and acute medical problems that do not require hospitalization, as well as provide inpatient consults. (Four weeks). Prerequisite: third-year required Medicine clerkship. Offered: AWSpS.
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MEDECK 613 Women's Primary Care (8)
For students with strong interest in women's health care in the ambulatory setting. Educates students on the diagnosis, management, and treatment of medical and outpatient gynecological issues of adult women of all ages and life stages. Working alongside internal medicine trained women's health care specialists, students manage a panel of patients, working independently and taking on more responsibility when possible. Prerequisite: completion of Patient Care Phase Medicine Clerkship. Offered: AWSpS.
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MEDECK 614 P-Oncology Subinternship (8)
Students act as interns on the inpatient oncology housestaff service at UW Medical Center Montlake, caring for patients with both solid tumors and hematologic malignancies. Includes exposure to principles of cancer treatment with chemotherapy and other modalities. Prerequisite: completion of Internal Medicine required clerkship. Offered: AWSpS.
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MEDECK 615 P-Rheumatology - Seattle (8)
Full-time inpatient-outpatient clerkship in rheumatology. Includes diagnosis and treatment of rheumatic diseases, utilizing outpatient clinics and hospitalized patients at the UW Medical Center, Harborview Medical Center, or VAMC. Emphasis on concepts in pathophysiology, diagnosis, and treatment of these diseases. In addition to patient contact, reading, seminars, and preceptorial sessions are the methods of instruction. (Four weeks). Prerequisite: third-year required Medicine clerkship. Offered: AWSpS.
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MEDECK 617 P-Harborview Evening Clinic - Seattle (1/2, max. 8)
A longitudinal elective for senior medical students who assume primary responsibility for a panel of medical patients in an outpatient clinic. Direct care of patients is supplemented by didactic sessions dealing with issues in ambulatory care. Students must apply to this program, and are expected to participate for the full academic year. Prerequisite: third-year required Medicine clerkship. Offered: AWSpS.
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MEDECK 618 P-Medical Consultation - Seattle (8)
Full-time outpatient and inpatient elective in peri-operative medical consultation for senior medical students. Students see patients in the medical consultation clinic, then follow them daily when they come in for surgery. (Four weeks). Prerequisite: third-year required Medicine clerkship. Offered: AWSpS.
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MEDECK 619 P-Management of Sexually Transmitted Diseases - Seattle (2, max. 12)
Instruction and clinical experience in diagnosis, treatment, management, and patient counseling of sexually transmitted diseases. Instruction in genitourinary physical examination skills; relevant laboratory techniques and management of patients with STDs. Prior to the elective, each student must review a packet of didactic materials. (Two weeks). Prerequisite: third-year required Medicine, OB/GYN, and Surgery clerkships. Offered: AWSpS.
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MEDECK 620 P-Critical Care Medicine Subinternship - Seattle (8)
Participating students function at the sub-intern level on the MICU service at either Harborview Medical Center, UWMC, or VAMC. Through direct patient care responsibilities, students learn about various forms of critical care illness and gain experience in the application of mechanical ventilation, arterial blood gas analysis, and palliative care medicine. (Four weeks). Prerequisite: third-year required Medicine clerkship. Offered: AWSpS.
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MEDECK 621 Advanced Outpatient Geriatrics (8)
This is an advanced rotation in the care of older adults with an emphasis on age-related changes in physiology, pathophysiology, function, and quality of life. Students will prevent, diagnose and manage common geriatric syndromes; Identify available health and community services for older adults to address their care needs; and identify the complexity and uncertainty of many conditions and circumstances older adults experience. Prerequisite: Successful completion of the third year medicine clerkship Offered: AWSpS.
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MEDECK 622 P-Clinical Medical Genetics (8)
Students see outpatients and attend a variety of outpatient clinics including subspecialty clinics in cancer genetics, connective tissue genetics, neurogenetics, Turner syndrome and dermatologic genetics, and pediatric general genetics clinics with an emphasis on dysmorphology, developmental delay, disorders of sexual differentiation, skeletal dysplasia, craniofacial anomalies, and neurogenetics. (Four weeks). Prerequisite: third-year required Medicine clerkship. Offered: AWSpS.
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MEDECK 623 P-Clinical Wound Management (*)
Opportunity for medical student to be exposed to and learn wound care management in clinical setting. At end of rotation students should be able to diagnose cause of chronic ulcer or wound, outline the approach to the management of diabetic foot ulcer, peripheral artery disease ulcer and VLU, and initiate treatments such as sharp debridement, VAC, dressing, and Unna Boot placement. (Two weeks). Prerequisite: third-year required Medicine clerkship. Offered: AWSpS.
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MEDECK 624 Hospitalist Subinternship - Seattle, WA (8)
Intensive experience in hospital medicine. The student works primarily with an attending hospitalist or nocturnist.
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MEDECK 625 Cardiology Subinternship - Seattle, WA (8)
Students serve as intern on the cardiology service under the supervision of senior resident and cardiology attending physicians.
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MEDECK 626 P-Clinical Cardiology and Electrocardiography - Tacoma (8)
Clerkship in clinical cardiology-combined inpatient-outpatient assignments, ECG interpretation. (Four weeks). Prerequisite: third-year required Medicine clerkship.
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MEDECK 627 Clinical Hematology - Seattle (8)
Clerkship experience in hematology, focusing on blood and bone marrow morphology in an outpatient setting. Prerequisite: completion of Internal Medicine required clerkship.
Offered: AWSpS.
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MEDECK 628 P-Clinical Infectious Diseases - Tacoma (8)
Students participate in the consulting service throughout the hospital, attend daily plate rounds, conferences, and seminars. Participate in consulting service throughout hospital to learn microbiological aspects of infectious diseases through the clinical laboratories. (Four weeks). Prerequisite: third-year required Medicine clerkship. Offered: AWSpS.
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MEDECK 629 P-Clinical Respiratory Disease and Critical Care - Tacoma (8)
Training in respiratory disease diagnosis and pulmonary therapy, with special emphasis on cardiopulmonary function testing and interpretation. Inpatient and outpatient teaching rounds, conferences, and basic science integration. (Four weeks). Prerequisite: third-year required Medicine clerkship. Offered: AWSpS.
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MEDECK 630 P-Ward Medicine Subinternship - Tacoma (*, max. 24)
Students act in the capacity of interns on the medical wards under supervision of house staff and visiting physicians. They attend all regular medicine rounds and conferences as their schedules permit. (Four weeks). Prerequisite: third-year required Medicine clerkship. Offered: AWSpS.
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MEDECK 631 P-Ward Medicine Subinternship - Spokane (8)
Students act in the capacity of interns on the medical wards under supervision of house staff and visiting physicians. They attend all regular medicine rounds and conferences as their schedules permit. (Four weeks). Prerequisite: third-year required Medicine clerkship. Offered: AWSpS.
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MEDECK 632 APC Inpatient and Outpatient Cardiology-Spokane (8)
This rotation provides opportunities in inpatient and outpatient settings. Students assume ownership of inpatients, rounding on patients, formulating treatment plans, and following them through their hospital course. Emphasis will be placed on physical examination, electrocardiogram interpretation, basics of echocardiographic imaging, and the management of patients with congestive heart failure, dysrhythmia, angina, and valvular heart disease. Prerequisite: Successful completion of required medicine clerkship. Offered: AWSpS.
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MEDECK 633 P-Clinical Cardiology and Electrocardiography - Washington (8)
Clerkship in clinical cardiology-combined inpatient-outpatient assignments, ECG interpretation. (Four weeks). Prerequisite: third-year required Medicine clerkship. Offered: AWSpS.
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MEDECK 635 Advanced Hospital Inpatient - Missoula, MT (8)
Intensive experience in hospital medicine. Students assume responsibility as the primary provider for a subset of the attending physician's panel of patients. Prerequisite: successful completion of required medicine clerkship. Offered: AWSpS.
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MEDECK 636 P-Clinical Gastroenterology - Washington (8)
Participation in consulting ward rounds, procedures, conferences, and selected clinics at Sacred Heart Hospital in Spokane. (Four weeks). Prerequisite: third-year required Medicine clerkship. Offered: AWSpS.
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MEDECK 637 Clinical Infectious Diseases - Yakima, WA (8)
Students participate in the clinic and consulting service at area hospitals. Includes patients with a range of community acquired and hospital acquired infectious diseases. Students participate in antibiotic stewardship discussions and infection control meetings.
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MEDECK 638 Clinical Infectious Diseases - Spokane (8)
Students participate in the consulting service throughout the hospital, attend daily plate rounds, conferences, and seminars. Participate in consulting service throughout hospital to learn microbiological aspects of infectious diseases through the clinical laboratories. (Four weeks). Prerequisite: third-year required Medicine clerkship. Offered: AWSpS.
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MEDECK 639 P-Nephrology and Fluid Balance - Washington (8)
Students see clinical nephrologic problems under close supervision, participate in nephrology and transplant rounds, see consults, and work up patients in renal clinics. (Four weeks). Prerequisite: third-year required Medicine clerkship. Offered: AWSpS.
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MEDECK 640 Critical Care Medicine Subinternship - Washington (8)
Participating students function at the sub-intern level on the MICU. Through direct patient care responsibilities, students learn about various forms of critical care illness and gain experience in the application of mechanical ventilation, arterial blood gas analysis, and palliative care medicine. (Four weeks). Prerequisite: third-year required Medicine clerkship. Offered: AWSpS.
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MEDECK 641 Hospitalist Subinternship-WY (8)
Intensive experience in hospital medicine. The student works primarily with an attending hospitalist or nocturnist. Prerequisite: Medicine Required Clerkship Offered: AWSpS.
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MEDECK 643 P-Clinical Cardiology and Electrocardiography - WY (8)
The student will spend time in a consultative cardiology clinic. They will see new patients independantly and present to the attending cardiologist on a daily basis. They will perform inpatient consultations and follow in patients. They will see ED patients in consultation. The student will spend time observing in the echocardiographic suite, the pacemaker clinic and the cardiac catheterization laboratory. Prerequisite: Successful completion of third year Medicine Clerkship Offered: AWSpS.
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MEDECK 644 P-Clinical Dermatology - Wyoming (8)
Participation in dermatology clinics and inpatient consultations. A continuing series of teaching seminars and weekly dermatopathology conferences. (Four weeks). Prerequisite: third-year required Medicine clerkship. Offered: AWSpS.
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MEDECK 645 Advanced Outpatient Clerkship - Seattle Veterans Administration (8)
Advanced outpatient clerkship with a unique focus on non-traditional modalities of primary care delivery, including home-based primary care, primary care for veterans experiencing homelessness, addiction medicine, and perioperative medicine. Students learn about careers in internal medicine and primary care. Increases clinical experience and skills in ambulatory internal medicine, with a focus on veterans with complex biopsychosocial needs. Prerequisite: completion of medicine required clerkship. Offered: AWSpS.
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MEDECK 646 Gastroenterology Clerkship - Spokane, WA (8)
Clerkship experience in gastroenterology in the inpatient and outpatient setting. Students participate in inpatient consults in the emergency department, intensive care unit, and acute care wards, and see patients with both new and chronic gastrointestinal problems in clinic. Prerequisite: completion of Internal Medicine required clerkship. Offered: AWSpS.
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MEDECK 647 Clinical Hematology/Oncology - Idaho (8)
Medicine elective clerkship designed to provide students with outpatient and inpatient experience with hematologic/oncologic disorders. Includes teaching rounds, conferences, and evaluation of laboratory work. Open to third- and fourth-year medical students. Offered: AWSpS.
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MEDECK 648 Infectious Disease - Missoula, MT (8)
Clerkship experience in infectious disease. Students participate in inpatient infectious disease service including consultative management of patients and in outpatient infectious disease clinic, including wound care. Prerequisite: completion of Internal Medicine required clerkship.
Offered: AWSpS.
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MEDECK 649 Geriatric Medicine and Palliative Care Consultation - Missoula, MT (8)
Integrated clerkship experience in geriatric medicine and palliative care. Students participate in inpatient consultation service, ambulatory clinic, and see geriatric patients in both long-term care and on home visits. Prerequisite: completion of Internal Medicine required clerkship. Offered: AWSpS.
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MEDECK 651 P-Ward Medicine Subinternship - Alaska (*, max. 24)
Students act in the capacity of interns on the medical wards under supervision of house staff and visiting physicians. They attend all regular medicine rounds and conferences as their schedules permit. (Four weeks). Prerequisite: third-year required Medicine clerkship. Offered: AWSpS.
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MEDECK 652 P-Infectious Disease Consults - Alaska (8)
Intensive four week experience caring for patients with complex infectious diseases and immune compromise. Outpatient management of HIV-infected patients, execution of antimicrobial stewardship program, and exposure to treatment of a wide range of infectious disease pathology seen in Alaska. Prerequisite: Required internal medicine clerkship.
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MEDECK 653 P-Clinical Cardiology and Electrocardiography - Alaska (8)
Clerkship in clinical cardiology. Combined inpatient-outpatient assignments, ECG interpretation. (Four weeks). Prerequisite: third-year required Medicine clerkship. Offered: AWSpS.
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MEDECK 657 Clinical Hematology/Oncology (8)
Work with patients with benign and malignant hematology disorders and patients with various solid tumors, with an emphasis on those with GI malignancies, breast, lung, and head/neck cancers. Procedures performed include bone marrow biopsy and aspirate and lumbar puncture with intrathecal chemotherapy. Learn about the diagnostic workup, staging, and treatment of such cancers. Learn about therapies to treat hematologic diseases and solid tumors. Prerequisite: Successful completion of third year required medicine clerkship Offered: AWSpS.
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MEDECK 658 P-Clinical Infectious Diseases Alaksa (8)
Students participate in clinic and in the consulting service throughout the hospital, attend ICU, antimicrobial stewardship rounds, and seminars. Participate in consulting service throughout hospital to learn microbiological aspects of infectious diseases through the clinical laboratories. (Four weeks). Prerequisite: third-year required Medicine clerkship; fourth-year standing. Offered: AWSpS.
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MEDECK 660 P-Critical Care - Alaska (8)
Advanced patient care clerkship on the MICU service at Alaska Native Medical Center. Through direct patient care responsibilities, students learn about critical care illness and gain experience in application of mechanical ventilation, arterial blood gas analysis, and palliative care medicine. (Four weeks). Prerequisite: third-year required Medicine clerkship.
Offered: AWSpS.
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MEDECK 661 P-Ward Medicine Subinternship-Billings, MT (8)
Students act in the capacity of interns on the medical wards under supervision of the house staff and visiting physicians. They attend all regular medicine rounds and conference as their schedules permit. Prerequisite: Third year required Medicine clerkship.
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MEDECK 662 Outpatient Medicine - Montana (8)
Advanced ambulatory medicine elective at the Bozeman Health Internal Medicine Clinic. Students spend the most time in the Bozeman Health Internal Med Clinic, a primary care clinic serving a series of complex patients in the outpatient setting. Students see 3-4 patients a half day with a high level of autonomy. Time is also spent in medicine specialty clinics, as developed or desired. Prerequisite: successful completion of Patient Care Phase. Offered: AWSpS.
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MEDECK 663 Clinical Cardiology-Missoula (8)
Experience in consultative cardiology clinic. Students see both new and returning outpatients presenting for routine clinic visits. Includes time in the hospital where the students gain exposure in evaluating acute cardiology problems including acute coronary syndromes, arrhythmias, heart failure, and more. Prerequisite: successful completion of Medicine Clerkship Offered: AWSpS.
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MEDECK 665 P-Clinical Endocrinology- Bozeman (8)
Clerkship in clinical endocrinology and metabolism combined inpatient and outpatient assignments at selected hospitals in Bozeman, MT. Prerequisite: Third-year required Medicine Clerkship Offered: AWSpS.
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MEDECK 667 Hospitalist Medicine Subinternship-MT (8)
Intensive experience in hospital medicine. The student works primarily with an attending hospitalist or nocturnist. Prerequisite: Successful completion of required medicine clerkship. Offered: AWSpS.
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MEDECK 668 Critical Care Medicine, Great Falls, MT (8)
Students evaluate and manage critically ill patients in a mixed medical, surgical, cardiothoracic and neuro ICU. Students act as the primary provider and work closely with the intensivist and interprofessional team. Students will encounter a patient with septic shock on vasopressors, a patient with respiratory failure on mechanical ventilation, a post-cardiothoracic surgery patient, and a patient with a primary neurological insult. Prerequisite: Successful completion of the third year medicine clerkship Offered: AWSpS.
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MEDECK 669 P-Nephrology and Fluid Balance - Montana (8)
Students see clinical nephrologic problems under close supervision, participate in nephrology and transplant rounds, see consults, and work up patients in renal clinics. (Four weeks). Prerequisite: third-year required Medicine clerkship. Credit/no-credit only. Offered: AWSpS.
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MEDECK 670 P-Clinical Medicine Critical Care - Idaho Falls (8)
Inpatient critical care rotation in community hospital setting at Eastern Idaho Regional Medical Center in Idaho Falls. Assist in diagnosis and management of common ICU problems and major trauma resuscitation under supervision of critical care physicians. Exposure to common ICU problems, which may include sepsis, respiratory failure, hypotension, organ failure, and gastrointestinal hemorrhage. Students work as multidisciplinary team. (Four weeks) Prerequisite: third-year required Medicine clerkship. Offered: AWSpS.
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MEDECK 671 P-Ward Medicine Subinternship - Idaho (*, max. 24)
Students act in the capacity of interns on the medical wards under supervision of house staff and visiting physicians. They attend all regular medicine rounds and conferences as their schedules permit. (Four weeks). Prerequisite: third-year required Medicine clerkship. Offered: AWSpS.
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MEDECK 672 P-Clinical Endocrinology and Metabolism - Idaho Falls, ID (8)
Clerkship in clinical endocrinology and metabolism combined inpatient and outpatient assignments at selected hospitals. Prerequisite: medicine required clerkship. Offered: AWSpS.
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MEDECK 673 P-Clinical Cardiology and Electrocardiography - Idaho (8)
Clerkship in clinical cardiology-combined inpatient-outpatient assignments, ECG interpretation. (Four weeks). Prerequisite: third-year required Medicine clerkship. Offered: AWSpS.
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MEDECK 675 P-Clinical Allergy and Immunology - Boise, ID (4)
Clinical experience seeing a combination of new and recheck patients with allergy, asthma and immunology disorders for example but not limited to, seasonal allergies, allergic rashes, asthma, chronic cough, chronic sinusitis, contact dermatitis, bee sting allergy, and food allergy. Prerequisite: Medicine Clerkship and 4th year standing.
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MEDECK 676 P-Critical Gastroenterology - Boise, ID (8)
Clerkship in clinical gastroenterology in Boise, ID. Participation in consulting ward rounds, procedures, conferences, and selected clinics with full-time divisional staff, plus directed tutorial work.
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MEDECK 677 P-Clinical Hematology/Oncology - Idaho (8)
Outpatient and inpatient experience with hematologic/oncologic disorders. The elective includes teaching rounds, conferences, and evaluation of laboratory work. (Four weeks). Prerequisite: third-year required Medicine clerkship. Offered: AWSpS.
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MEDECK 678 P-Clinical Infectious Diseases - Idaho (8)
Students participate in the consulting service throughout the hospital, attend daily plate rounds, conferences, and seminars. Participate in consulting service throughout hospital to learn microbiological aspects of infectious diseases through the clinical laboratories. (Four weeks). Prerequisite: third-year required Medicine clerkship. Offered: AWSpS.
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MEDECK 679 P-Nephrology and Fluid Balance - Idaho (8)
Students see clinical nephrologic problems under close supervision, participate in nephrology and transplant rounds, see consults, and work up patients in renal clinics. (Four weeks). Prerequisite: third-year required Medicine clerkship. Offered: AWSpS.
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MEDECK 680 P-Clinical Respiratory Disease and Critical Care Medicine - Idaho (8)
Training in respiratory disease diagnosis and pulmonary therapy, with special emphasis on cardiopulmonary function testing and interpretation. Inpatient and outpatient teaching rounds, conferences, and basic science integration. (Four weeks). Prerequisite: third-year required Medicine clerkship. Offered: AWSpS.
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MEDECK 682 P-critical Care Subinternship- Idaho (8)
Students function at the sub-intern level on the MICU service. Through direct patient care responsibilities, students learn about various forms of critical care illness and gain experience in the application of mechanical ventilation, arterial blood gas analysis, and palliative care medicine. (Four Weeks). Prerequisite: Third-year required Medicine clerkship. Offered: AWSpS.
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MEDECK 683 P-Outpatient Clinical Cardiology Virgina Mason (8)
Four-week clerkship in clinical outpatient cardiology at Virginia Mason Heart Institute. Covers ECG interpretation, stress testing, coronary angiography, stenting EP procedures, and echo cardiography. Prerequisite: third-year required Internal Medicine clerkship. Offered: AWSpS.
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MEDECK 684 Subinternship in Hospital Medicine and Hematology/Oncology - Seattle, WA (8)
Intensive experience in hospital medicine in which the student acts as an intern for the Medicine O service.
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MEDECK 686 P-Advanced Clinical Dermatology Clinic - Idaho (8)
Advanced clinical dermatology clerkship. (Four weeks). Prerequisite: third-year required Medicine clerkship; either MEDECK 604, MEDECK 634, MEDECK 644, MEDECK 664, or MEDECK 674. Offered: AWSpS.
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MEDECK 687 Advanced Outpatient Clerkship-Idaho (8)
The advanced outpatient clerkship at the Boise Veterans Medical Center (VAMC) is designed for medical students with an interest in solidifying ambulatory clinical knowledge and skills, with a unique focus on learning new models of primary care delivery. This four-week, full time clinical experience based in a primary care teaching clinic at the Boise VAMC will focus on inter-professional collaboration and the patient centered medical home model. Prerequisite: successful completion of the medicine clerkship. Offered: AWSpS.
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MEDECK 690 P-General Internal Medicine - Shiprock (8)
Clerkship located at the Northern Navajo Medical Center in Shiprock, New Mexico. Students are involved in all aspects of patient care, including home visits, ambulatory care, and hospital stays. (Four weeks). Prerequisite: third-year required Medicine clerkship. Offered: AWSpS.
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MEDECK 691 P-Medicine Special Electives - Seattle (*, max. 24)
By special arrangement for qualified students, special clerkships or externships. Prerequisite: permission of department.
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MEDECK 692 P-Medicine Special Electives - Washington (*, max. 24)
By special arrangement for qualified students, special clerkships or externships. Prerequisite: permission of department.
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MEDECK 693 P-Medicine Special Electives - Wyoming (*, max. 24)
By special arrangement for qualified students, special clerkships or externships. Prerequisite: permission of department.
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MEDECK 694 P-Medicine Special Electives - Alaska (*, max. 24)
By special arrangement for qualified students, special clerkships or externships. Prerequisite: permission of department.
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MEDECK 695 P-Medicine Special Electives - Montana (*, max. 24)
By special arrangement for qualified students, special clerkships or externships. Prerequisite: permission of department.
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MEDECK 696 P-Medicine Special Electives - Idaho (*, max. 24)
By special arrangement for qualified students, special clerkships or externships. Prerequisite: permission of department.
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MEDECK 697 P-Medicine Special Electives - Away (*, max. 24)
Special clerkship, externship, or research opportunities at times made available at institutions other than University of Washington. Faculty advise students of opportunities. Students obtain from Dean's office a special assignment form at least three months before preregistration. (Two, four, six, or twelve weeks). Prerequisite: permission of department.
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MEDECK 701 P-Occupational and Environmental Medicine (8)
Overview of Occupation and Environmental Medicine subspecialty. Introduction to Washington Worker's Compensation system and diagnosis and treatment of occupational injuries and illness. Students complete special projects in OEM aligning with student interest, participate in worksite visits, and attend conferences.
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MEDECK 702 Lifestyle Medicine (4)
Students gain the knowledge and skills to help achieve better overall health and greater quality of life. Working in an outpatient clinic with a multidisciplinary team, students learn how evidence-based lifestyle interventions such as nutrition, sleep management, physical activity, substance abuse mitigation, and stress management impact health status. Prerequisite: successful completion of UW School of Medicine Foundations curriculum. Offered: AWSpS.
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MEDECK 703 Pediatric and Adult Sleep Medicine Clerkship - Bozeman (4)
Introductory clerkship experience in pediatric and adult sleep medicine in an outpatient clinic setting. Students integrate into sleep medicine team, see patients, and read sleep studies. Prerequisite: completion of required Internal Medicine clerkship. Offered: AWSpS.
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MEDECK 704 P-Intro to Clinical Dermatology (2 Wks) (4)
Students develop a basic approach to diagnosis and management of common skin conditions. Students see patients in dermatology resident under the supervision of dermatology faculty. (2-weeks) Offered: AWSpS.
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MEDECK 711 P-Introduction to Community Internal Medicine Subspecialty Practice (4)
Introduction to the outpatient Medicine specialty clinics of Endocrinology, Gastroenterology (GI), and Rheumatology in the Olympia medical community. Two weeks. Offered: Sp.
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MEDECK 713 Home Care Medicine (4)
Introductory experience to home care medicine with a focus on longitudinal care for complex and frail patients. Students participate as a member of interdisciplinary teams at both the VA as well as a private home based care group under the direction of an attending physician from both programs. Clinically, consists of a mixture of home visits, virtual visits, and participation in interdisciplinary team rounds. Prerequisite: successful completion of UWSOM Foundations curriculum. Offered: AWSpS.
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MEDECK 714 Intro to Opioid Use Disorder (4)
Intensive experience in the clinical care of patients with opioid use disorder in the inpatient and outpatient settings. Students will evaluate inpatients with opioid use disorder, providing treatment recommendations and linkage to outpatient services with appropriate supervision. Will work with patients in outpatient settings including primary care-based and opiod treatment programs. Students will complete training for buprenorphine waiver. Prerequisite: successful completion of medicine clerkship. Offered: AWSpS.
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MEDECK 724 P-Interprofessional Hospital Medicine (4)
Introduction to inpatient internal medicine focusing on interprofessional hospital services. Students work as a member of Hospitalist service, managing 1-2 patients, under direction of an attending physician with afternoons dedicated to rounding with other interprofessional services.
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