Fourth Year Medical Student Acting Internship
UPMC St. Margaret Family Medicine Residency Program offers an acting internship in Family Medicine for visiting medical students interested in learning more about our program and gaining valuable experience to prepare students for a successful intern year. This rotation is primarily an inpatient experience at UPMC St. Margaret Hospital. Students will work with our multi-disciplinary team of UPMC St. Margaret Family Medicine Resident Physicians, Fellows, and Faculty. Students assume primary responsibility of patients beginning with their admission in the emergency room and through their inpatient hospital stay and discharge.
Students will also have numerous opportunities for learning during formal didactics on Wednesday afternoons, noon-time teaching events, real-time teaching during patient rounds, as well as in-patient focused integrated behavioral science and pharmacy teaching topics.
Additional outpatient experiences may be incorporated based on the student’s interests and is determined on an individual basis.
Rotation Goal
Medical students will increase in medical knowledge and clinical acumen, display professional behavior, improve patient care skills and enhance interpersonal skills with patients, physicians, and hospital staff while working with the family medicine residents, fellows and faculty to provide highly skilled, compassionate, comprehensive inpatient and/or outpatient care.
Rotation Objectives
By the end of the rotation, students should have improved skills in:
- Medical Knowledge
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- Improve utilization of labs/tests/studies: when to order, how to order, why to order, interpretation
- Increase awareness and incorporation of the biopsychosocial model into patient care
- Broaden differential diagnosis skills Prioritize differential diagnosis
- Offer treatment options with evidence to support your choice
- Teach patients about their diagnoses or treatment plans
- Accurately recommend appropriate health maintenance for every patient
- Patient Care
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- Identify accurately the reason(s) for the visit or hospitalization
- Conduct a focused history and physical examination (H&P) depending on visit reason
- Accurately gather and report data in order to increase your knowledge about patients and their illnesses
- Participate in procedures including but not limited to skin procedures, joint injections, EKGs, etc
- Keep abreast of your patients’ circumstances and conditions
- Review all radiological studies of your patients Examine interesting blood smears, urines, etc when time permits
- Attend your patients’ procedures (EST, EGD, ERCP, cardiac catheterization, etc) as time allows
- Interpersonal and Communication Skills
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- Listen actively and effectively
- Work effectively as part of the team
- Give synoptic oral presentations of patient cases
- Write clear, coherent, and reasoned H&Ps, orders, progress notes, and consults
- Discuss each case daily with patient’s attending physician
- Read about the patients you see and discuss what you found with the preceptor or the resident/fellow
- Incorporate feedback
- Professionalism
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- Be prompt
- Be prepared and ready to see patients
- Maintain dignity and respect for all patients
- Demonstrate reliability, genuineness, compassion and integrity to patients, staff, and physicians
- Practice Based Learning and Improvement
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- Attend all lectures, progress rounds, medical decision making rounds, and grand rounds
- Use information technology to support medical decisions
- Read about the patients you see AND discuss what you found with preceptor or the resident/fellow Incorporate feedback
- Systems Based Practice
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- Know when to refer to a specialist
- Collaborate appropriately with non-physician healthcare providers (i.e. social services, nutrition, pharmacy, nursing, etc)
How to Apply
If you are interested in completing a medical student rotation with us, please fill out this form and we will get back to you!