Electives for
medical students are available in the following areas:
Electives
may be scheduled by contacting:
Lagena Fant lagena.fant2@anmedhealth.org
or by calling
864.224.8100
Kristin Chochran cochrak@musc.edu or by calling
843.792.6977
Family Medicine Acting
Internship
This elective is structured to provide the 4th
year medical student with a strong interest in Family Medicine with an
outpatient and inpatient experience in the practice of family medicine in the
setting of a community hospital-based family medicine residency. The
student will care for a variety of inpatient complaints in the pediatric,
obstetric and adult family medicine teaching services. In addition
students will see patients alongside Family Medicine residents and faculty in a
variety of outpatient clinics and procedure clinics. This elective will
provide a comprehensive educational opportunity for a fourth year medical
student interested in Family Medicine.
- Call: every 4th night with assigned resident
- Patient Load: OFFICE - 3-4 office patients per half day
at Family Medicine Center. Patient care time also will be scheduled at
our Children's Health Center and/or Anderson Free Clinic. HOSPITAL - a
maximum of 4 patients at any given time
- Lectures: one teaching conference per day (approximately one hour each)
- Procedures/special
interest clinic opportunities: Dermatology clinic, Colposcopy clinic, Sports
Medicine clinic, Gynecologic consult clinic, Hospice and Palliative
experience.
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Global Health
This elective is offered to both third and fourth
year medical students with interest in Global Health
issues. Students will be responsible for expenses of their trip, which
are usually sponsored by a 510C3 organization. This is usually a
7-10 day elective which includes travel time to various international locations
and certain required readings.
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The student will develop a broader world view of
communities with different lifestyles, health care systems and political
systems.
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The student will develop an awareness of diverse
psychosocial and cultural beliefs and practices, understand differences in
community structure and resources, and observe how these affect healthcare
delivery.
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The student will experience alternative approaches to
healthcare delivery systems in a setting of limited resources and
interventions, where the diagnosis is based primarily on information from the
history and physical examination.
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The student will enhance patient-physician communication
skills, both verbal and non-verbal, and experience the issues involved with
working with interpreters.
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Hospice and Palliative Medicine
Student will work with the Medical Director(Dr. Hunter E. Woodall, Professor of Family Medicine MUSC
and certified in Hospice &
Palliative Medicine) at Hospice of the
Upstate, a 32-bed Inpatient Hospice unit in Anderson, South Carolina.
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Manage pain syndromes at the end-of-life
- Manage common non-pain symptoms at the end-of-life
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Discuss goals of care with terminal patients and their families
- Discuss the advantages and disadvantages of palliative
care versus curative care
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Internal
Medicine Externship
This rotation is an inpatient general internal medicine
experience. The student will take call with a family practice resident
evaluating patients admitted to the Internal Medicine teaching service of the
AnMed Health Family Medicine Residency Program.
- Call: every 4th or 5th day with assigned
resident
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Patient Load: HOSPITAL-maximum of 6 patients at any given time
- Lectures: one teaching conference per day (approximately
one hour each)
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Obstetrics & Gynecology
The student shall participate in an integral part of the
obstetric rotation of the residency program. Emphasis shall be placed upon the
evaluation of the prenatal patient, management of routine vaginal delivery and
postpartum care. Evaluation shall be by the faculty of the residency
program.
- Call: every 4th night with assigned resident
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Patient Load: OFFICE - 3-4 office patients per half day
at Family Medicine Center. Patient care time also will be scheduled
at our Women’s Health Clinic, Child Health Clinic and/or Anderson Free
Clinic. HOSPITAL - maximum of 4 patients at any given time
- Lectures: one teaching conference per day (approximately
one hour each)
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Religion
& Medicine
Many
physicians struggle to find the most appropriate ways to address questions of
relating religious faith and practice to their clinical practice. This one-month
elective uses directed readings, clinical preceptorships, and opportunities for
individual study to explore the application of religion to clinical medicine.
Students of all religions are welcome. In South Carolina the vast majority of
patients are nominally Christian, so even physicians of other faiths can benefit
from this elective. Students are required to complete a journal on assigned
readings, and are evaluated by their clinical preceptors, and may choose to
complete other independent studies. Clinical preceptors are family physicians
with unique training or experience in applying faith to practice. Time is spent
in a 32 bed hospice in-patient facility. Study materials explore the spiritual
aspects of medical illness and emphasize a holistic, non-judgmental, respectful approach to
patients. Evaluations are based on effort, punctuality and the quality of
completed assignments.
The student will complete the assigned readings
and write a journal of reactions to the readings.
The student will spend two weeks with the
preceptors in their clinical practices.
The student will complete a project selected and
approved at the beginning of the rotation. Options for the project may include
a short paper on a topic in religion and medicine, a research project, or one
proposed by the student based on interest and/or previous
experience.
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