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Elective Categories
Students select from five categories of electives:
- Clinical Practice Electives
Students develop patient care skills and familiarity with the fundamental principles of practicing in a particular specialty. - Advanced Clinical Electives
Students actively participate in a robust clinical experience as an integrated member of a healthcare team. These electives also allow for reflection on professional development and career pathways. - Advanced Science Electives
Students pursue a review or scholarly research experience in the biomedical sciences and explore its relevance in clinical medicine.
- Professional Development Electives
Students develop knowledge and skills outside of the traditional medical school curriculum that advance their success in medical practice - Special Electives
Students pursue unique opportunities that are available outside of the IUSM electives catalog and require discussion and planning through your advisors and Medical Student Education office.
Schedule Planning Instructions
Students should review the full scheduling instructions on MedNet before scheduling electives via the E*Value scheduling program.
Elective Schedule Overview for Phase 3:
In addition to the core rotation requirements (Sub-Internship selective, Emergency Medicine clerkship, Radiology rotation, and Transitions 3) students must complete a total of seven electives to fulfill IUSM graduation requirements. The categories and expected mix of the electives are listed below and can be discussed with your advisor.
- At least four of the electives must be established courses listed in the IU School of Medicine Course Catalog.
- Three of the electives may be away or special electives.
- Four of the electives must be clinical rotations, one of which is required to be in the Advanced Clinical Elective category, while the others may be from the Clinical Practice category.
- It is highly recommended that one of the electives be selected from the Professional Development or Advanced Science categories.
Requirements are not mutually exclusive and one elective can fulfill more than one requirement (e.g. an elective can be an away elective and a clinical rotation).
Planning electives based on career specialty interest:
The IUSM Mentoring and Advising Program provides an excellent guide for each specialty. This highly recommended guide includes recommendations for electives based on your specialty interest. For unique situations and other questions, please talk with your career faculty advisor and Lead Advisor.
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79DA760 - ADVANCED CLINICAL ANATOMY | Share Page
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This course is designed for senior medical students who are seeking teaching experiences in Human Gross Anatomy and Embryology. Students will teach in the lecture/discussion and laboratory parts of the course (LCME 501..
Course Director: James J. Walker, Ph.D.
Campus: West Lafayette
Location: IUSM - West Lafayette
Elective Type Category: PD - Professional Development
Primary Contact for Adds/Drops:
Donna Fulkerson (765-496-7973 or drf@purdue.edu )71DA750 - ADVANCED HUMAN STRUCTURE AND ANATOMICAL EDUCATION | Share Page
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This course is designed for fourth year medical students who have chosen (or are in the later stages of choosing) their area of graduate medical education (residency). Students who enroll will be privileged to assist in the dissection laboratory instruction of first year medical students. In addition, the course includes instruction in dissection technique and permits first hand advanced dissection of basic and applied regional gross anatomy of the human body in a region related to the student's area of clinical interest and consistent with the ongoing Human Structure course. Students will also have the opportunity to explore the associated histology. Fourth year students may be required to prepare prosections and deliver short instructional presentations to the first year students at the start of some lab sessions. Attendance at Human Structure didactic sessions is encouraged and active participation in osteological, histological, and section review activities for MS1s is required. Each student is required to undertake an in-depth study of some area of human structure (area to be selected in consultation with course faculty) and prepare a presentation on the material to course instructors near the end of the elective.Course Director: Tracy Vargo Gogola, Ph.D.
Campus: South Bend
Location: IUSM - South Bend
Elective Type Category: PD- Professional Development
Primary Contact for Adds/Drops:
Stacey Jackson (sajacks@iu.edu)82DA750 - ADVANCED HUMAN STRUCTURE AND ANATOMICAL EDUCATION | Share Page
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This course is designed for third and fourth year medical students seeking teaching experiences in gross anatomy, histology, and embryology components of the Human Structure course taught to 1st year medical students. Participating students will assist in teaching the human structure laboratories and will be expected to prepare and lead small group discussions. Participants should consider the timing of their elective such that the regional anatomical course content will align with the student's area of clinical interest. Participants will also receive guidance in the development of board-style questions and a durable educational module focusing on a clinical application. This module could be a slide presentation, video, TBL/PBL case, or any other approved modality that supports the objectives of the Human Structure course.Course Director: Dale William Saxon, Ph.D.
Campus: Evansville
Location: IUSM-Evansville
Elective Type Category: PD - Professional Development
Primary Contact for Adds/Drops:
Caren Whitehouse (whitca@iu.edu)18XM520 - ADVANCED HUMAN STRUCTURE AND ANATOMICAL EDUCATION | Share Page
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This course is designed for third- and fourth-year medical students interested in reviewing the gross anatomy, histology, and embryology components of the Human Structure course taught to first-year medical students (MS1s). Participating students will assist in teaching the gross anatomy laboratories and will be expected to prepare prosections with the course director. Participants should consider the timing of their elective such that the regional anatomical course content will align with the student's area of clinical interest. Participants will also have the option to develop a durable educational module focusing on a clinical application of interest that supports the objectives of the Human Structure course. This module could be a slide presentation, video, procedural demonstration, or any other suitable modality.
Course Director: Gerard Guillot, Ph.D.
Campus: Muncie
Location: IUSM- Muncie
Elective Type Category: PD - Professional Development
Primary Contact for Adds/Drops:
Gerard Guillot (gguillot@iu.edu)93DA750 - ADVANCED REGIONAL GROSS ANATOMY | Share Page
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This course is designed for senior medical students who have chosen (or are in the later stages of choosing) their clinical area of post-graduate medical specialty. Students who enroll will be privileged to assist in laboratory teaching for first year medical students in Gross Anatomy (D503. and it is assumed that this opportunity is at least partial motivation for desiring to participate in this elective. Senior students will be required to prepare prosections and deliver short instructional presentations to the freshmen class at the start of each lab session. In addition, the course permits first hand advanced dissection of basic and applied regional gross anatomy of the human body in any region related to the student's area of clinical interest. Cadaver material is provided for dissection.
Course Director: Andrew Deane, Ph.D.
Campus: Indianapolis
Location: IU School of Medicine, Medical Science Building, Rm 213 (Indianapolis)
Elective Type Category: PD - Professional Development
Primary Contact for Adds/Drops:
Andrew Deane, Ph.D. (asdeane@iu.edu)45DA711 - ADVANCED STUDY IN HUMAN GROSS ANATOMY | Share Page
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This course will expose third- and fourth-year students to teaching first-year students. The major components of this elective include the following: 1. Dissection: Dissections and prosections of human cadaveric material will be done under the direct supervision of Dr. Mas. 2. Teaching: Teaching includes instruction to first-year med students and is divided into 4 components: Discussion/Lecture, Anatomy Lab, PBL Tutorial, and Radiology Workshop.
Course Director: Jose Mas, D.V.M.
Campus: Northwest-Gary
Location: IUSM - Northwest-Gary
Elective Type Category: PD - Professional Development
Primary Contact for Adds/Drops:
Amy Han, PhD (amyhan@iu.edu)02DA700 - ANATOMY EDUCATION | Share Page
Description:
This elective is designed for students who are interested in academic medicine. Students will be introduced to pedagogy and learning theory as they develop and implement an educational module that focuses on a clinical application of gross anatomy. The topic of the module will be selected based upon the goals and interests of the student in consultation with the course director. The module/presentation may be a power point presentation, video, TBL/PBL case, anatomical model, cadaver prosection, or any other modality deemed appropriate. The module must include a set of learning objectives and an assessment tool or other means of providing feedback to the learners. The finished product is intended to be a complete, self-contained module that supplements the gross anatomy curriculum.
Course Director: Leslie Hoffman, Ph.D.
Campus: Fort Wayne
Location: IUSM - Fort Wayne
Elective Type Category: PD - Professional Development
Primary Contact for Adds/Drops:
Sharon Roberts (robeshar@iupui.edu)02DA701 - CLINICAL GROSS ANATOMY | Share Page
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To review gross anatomy via intensive cadaver dissection and radiologic study (plain films, CT, MRI, ultrasound images) with emphasis on clinical syndromes that have clear anatomic correlatesCourse Director: Leslie Hoffman, Ph.D.
Campus: Fort Wayne
Location: IUSM - Fort Wayne
Elective Type Category: PD - Professional Development
Primary Contact for Adds/Drops:
Sharon Roberts (robeshar@iupui.edu)93DA990 - SPECIAL ELECTIVE IN ANATOMY AND CELL BIOLOGY | Share Page
Description:
Please refer to the Electives Policies and Procedures (mse.medicine.iu.edu/student...) for more information on special electives. For special elective forms, see the "Student Elective Forms"" section (mse.medicine.iu.edu/student...)"Elective Type Category: SPECIAL ELECTIVE
93AN710 - ADULT ANESTHESIA | Share Page
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Operating Room experience in all types of anesthesia will be provided in this elective. The practical training and experience will be complemented by lectures and departmental conferences. Students will be paired individually with a resident to discuss intraoperative management of specific cases and in addition, learn the skills of venipuncture, peripheral venous catheter insertion, bag mask ventilation, endotracheal intubation, placement of laryngeal mask airway, and observation of intraarterial line and central venous line placement. Students will also participate in the Simulator Lab where acute crises in the OR are presented. Students are expected to be engaged in the clinical intraoperative management of patients including performing the above procedures and supplementing this elective with the suggested reading materials. Further information about this elective is available at the departmental chairman's office in Fesler Hall. Assignment to specific teaching hospitals will be arranged by the course director following the senior elective matching program; requests for a specific hospital can be made but are not guaranteed to be honored.
Course Director: Matthew Warner, M.D.
Campus: Indianapolis
Location: IU Health University Hospital, Roudebush VA Medical Center, Eskenazi Health Services (Indianapolis)
Elective Type Category: AC- Advanced Clinical
Primary Contact for Adds/Drops:
Belinda Sanborn (bmsanbor@iu.edu)82AN710 - ADVANCED COMMUNITY ANESTHESIOLOGY | Share Page
Description:
This clerkship is directed to those students seriously considering a career in the medical field of Anesthesiology. The student will participate in many aspects of the perioperative care experience that will prepare them for residency training in Anesthesiology. In addition to clinical experience, didactics will include teaching and discussion during patient care activities and lectures. Self study will be mandatory through assigned readings. Successful completion will be based on interpersonal interactions with other professionals and patients, demonstration of basic skill competencies related to introductory level training in anesthesiology including airway management, invasive monitoring techniques, intravascular access and anesthetic techniques. The student will participate in all available aspects of perioperative medicine related to the practice of anesthesiology.Course Director: Larry Kilinski, Pharm.D, M.D.
Campus: Evansville
Location: Deaconess Health System
Elective Type Category: AC- Advanced Clinical
Primary Contact for Adds/Drops:
Caren Whitehouse (whitca@iu.edu)45AN717 - ANESTHESIA | Share Page
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The student will contribute largely to the care of patients in both the preoperative, operative, and postoperative periods, including necessary history and evaluation of patients. The student will be tasked with preparation of the surgical suite from the standpoint of the anesthetist, including appropriate monitor, suction, machines, airway, intubation, and drug checks. The student will understand the role of medications, pre-operative exam, laboratory data, EKG, and other pertinent data in the assessment of patients. Emphasis will be placed on the importance of airway management, proper techniques to secure an airway, as well as cardiopulmonary resuscitation including methods, techniques and roles of medications. Didactic sessions and case-based learning will also be provided. Required reading: Select chapters from Stoelting and Miller's Basics of Anesthesia.
Course Director: Derek Cheuk, M.D.
Campus: Northwest-Gary
Location: St. Mary Medical Center, Lake Park Surgicenter (Hobart)
Elective Type Category: AC- Advanced Clinical
Primary Contact for Adds/Drops:
Amy Han, PhD (amyhan@iu.edu )49AN706 - ANESTHESIA | Share Page
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The St. Vincent Anesthesia elective will consist of daily reading, an airway workshop, working in the OR one on one with an anesthesiologist, and a quiz at the end of the month. The educational focus will be on airway, fluids, autonomics, and cardiovascular physiology with additional topics available as desired by the student. Students should expect to get more than just intubation experience and should be prepared for daily didactics and required reading throughout the month. This is a great course to improve the understanding of private practice anesthesia, general knowledge on the previous topics mentioned, and procedural skills. Goal: Improve understanding anesthesia as a profession, improve knowledge on general medicine topics, and improve procedural skills.Course Director: Ryan Harris, M.D.
Campus: Indianapolis
Location: St. Vincent Hospital (Indianapolis)
Elective Type Category: CP - Clinical Practice
Primary Contact for Adds/Drops:
Beth Dragoo (BVDRAGOO@ascension.org)45AN702 - ANESTHESIA COMMUNITY HOSPITAL | Share Page
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The student will contribute largely to the care of patients in both the preoperative, operative, and postoperative periods, including necessary history and evaluation of patients. The student will be tasked with preparation of the surgical suite from the standpoint of the anesthesiologist, including appropriate monitor, suction, machines, airway, intubation, and drug checks. The student will understand the role of medications, pre-operative exam, laboratory data, EKG, and other pertinent data in the assessment of surgical patients. Emphasis will be placed on the importance of airway management, specifically the proper techniques to secure an airway, management of physiologic alterations that occur during surgery, perioperative pain management, as well and perioperative preparation of patients for their surgical procedure. Further emphasis will be placed on the anesthesia and surgical quality management process. Didactic sessions and case-based learning will also be provided. Required reading: Select chapters from Stoelting and Miller's Basics of Anesthesia. A course exam will be given at the end of the rotation.
Course Director: Richard Berkowitz, M.D.
Campus: Northwest-Gary
Location: Community Hospital (Munster)
Elective Type Category: AC- Advanced Clinical
Primary Contact for Adds/Drops:
Amy Han, PhD (amyhan@iu.edu)93AN760 - ANESTHESIA PAIN MANAGEMENT | Share Page
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Introduce the student to Pain Medicine through participation in the evaluation and treatment of patients seen in the Indiana University Pain Medicine Center at University Hospital. Students will gain exposure to the appropriate use of pain medications, injections, and advanced pain therapies such as spinal cord stimulators and pain pumps. The rotation consists primarily of outpatient chronic pain management, however, inpatient consults are also evaluated. Students are able to see patients across a wide range of painful diagnoses including cancer pain, acute post-operative pain, chronic post-operative pain (i.e. failed back surgery), and other non-malignant pain syndromes.Course Director: Joshua Wellington, M.D.
Campus: Indianapolis
Location: IU Health University Hospital and Senate Street Surgery Center (Indianapolis)
Elective Type Category: CP - Clinical Practice
Primary Contact for Adds/Drops:
Belinda Sanborn, Elective Coordinator (bmsanbor@iu.edu)20AN701 - ANESTHESIA/PAIN MANAGEMENT | Share Page
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Managing complex, chronic pain in today s environment can be challenging. This one-month rotation is designed to expose the student to a variety of patients dealing with both acute and chronic pain conditions. The student will learn to recognize, diagnose, and treat both acute and chronic issue in an outpatient setting.Course Director: Gene Grove, M.D.
Campus: South Bend
Location: Ascendant Orthopedic Alliance Outpatient Clinics and Ambulatory Surgical Center and Elkhart General Hospital (Elkhart)
Elective Type Category: CP - Clinical Practice
Primary Contact for Adds/Drops:
Stacey Jackson (sajacks@iu.edu)82AN720 - ANESTHESIOLOGY | Share Page
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Pre- and postoperative evaluation of patients. Follow-up in recovery room, ICU, or ward. Role of medications, preanesthesia examination, evaluation of laboratory data, EKG, invasive monitoring techniques, and other pertinent data. Clinical management of anesthesia, including application of anatomy, physiology, and pharmacology. Selection and administration of various types of anesthetic drugs. Management of airway. Cardiopulmonary resuscitation - methods, techniques, role of drugs. Assignment is to operating room and recovery room.Course Director: Michael Drake, M.D.
Campus: Evansville
Location: St. Vincent - Evansville
Elective Type Category: CP - Clinical Practice
Primary Contact for Adds/Drops:
Caren Whitehouse (whitca@iu.edu)82AN730 - ANESTHESIOLOGY | Share Page
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Pre- and postoperative evaluation of patients. Follow-up in recovery room, ICU, or ward. Role of medications, preanesthesia examination, evaluation of laboratory data, EKG, invasive monitoring techniques, and other pertinent data. Clinical management of anesthesia, including application of anatomy, physiology, and pharmacology. Selection and administration of various types of anesthetic drugs. Management of airway. Cardiopulmonary resuscitation - methods, techniques, role of drugs. Assignment is to operating room and recovery room.Course Director: John Rademaker, M.D.
Campus: Evansville
Location: Baptist Health Floyd
Elective Type Category: CP - Clinical Practice
Primary Contact for Adds/Drops:
Caren Whitehouse (whitca@iu.edu)02AN711 - CLINICAL ANESTHESIOLOGY | Share Page
Description:
1. Mastery of skills and knowledge to effectively manage emergency resuscitation. 2. Completion of core curriculum (provided). 3. Utilization of techniques including pulmonary artery catheterization, fiber optic endotracheal intubation, arterial catheterization, endobronchial intubation, nasotracheal intubation, etc. 4. Familiarization, as student desires, with special situations such as neonatal surgery, obstetrical anesthesia, trauma surgery, heart transplantation, mechanical ventricular assist device (e.g., Heart Mate), and numerous nerve blocks. 5. One-on-one discussions with preceptors on ethics and morality of medicine including end-of-life care, cost/benefit analyses, Medical Review Panel, Legislation, drug addiction, and medical policy.Course Director: William W. Pond, M.D.
Campus: Fort Wayne
Location: Associated Anesethesiologists (Fort Wayne)
Elective Type Category: AC- Advanced Clinical
Primary Contact for Adds/Drops:
Sharon Roberts (robeshar@iupui.edu)45AN712 - INTERVENTIONAL PAIN MANAGEMENT | Share Page
Description:
This elective will introduce the student to Pain Medicine through participation in the evaluation and treatment of patients seen in the outpatient setting. Students will gain exposure to the appropriate use of pain medications, injections, and advanced pain therapies such as spinal cord stimulators and pain pumps. The rotation consists primarily of outpatient chronic pain management, however, inpatient consults are also evaluated. Students are able to see patients across a wide range of painful diagnoses including cancer pain, acute post-operative pain, chronic post-operative pain (i.e. failed back surgery), and other non-malignant pain syndromes. The student will be exposed to: 1. patients with complex pain syndromes 2. outpatient pain management patients 3. post-surgical chronic neuropathic pain patients
Course Director: Shaun Kondamuri, M.D.
Campus: Northwest-Gary
Location: Community Hospital (Munster)
Elective Type Category: AC- Advanced Clinical
Primary Contact for Adds/Drops:
Amy Han, PhD (amyhan@iu.edu)93AN770 - INTERVENTIONAL PAIN MANAGEMENT | Share Page
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This elective will introduce the student to Pain management through participation in the evaluation and treatment of Patients seen at the Richard L Roudebush VA Medical Center in Indianapolis. Students will gain exposure to a vast variety of intervention pain procedures including the most advanced procedures in Pain Management e.g.: Spinal cord stimulators, implanted pain pumps, Radiofrequency ablations, Kyphoplasty and MILD procedures. The rotation will consist of outpatient chronic pain management also, inpatient consults are evaluated regularly. In addition, students will get exposure to acute post-operative pain management and different regional anesthesia techniques.
Course Director: Ahmed Elsahy, M.D.
Campus: Indianapolis
Location: Richard L. Roudebush VA Medical Center
Elective Type Category: AC- Advanced Clinical
Primary Contact for Adds/Drops:
Belinda Sanborn (bmsanbor@iu.edu)93AO700 - OBSTETRICAL ANESTHESIA | Share Page
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Senior students will be provided delivery room experience in general and regional anesthesia. They will gain experience in the resuscitation of the newborn. The practical experience will be complemented by departmental lectures and conferences. Additional information can be obtained by calling the course director.
Course Director: Amy Dorwart, M.D.
Campus: Indianapolis
Location: Eskenazi Health Services (Indianapolis) First Day: Arrive at the anesthesia offices at Eskenazi Hospital 2nd Floor (H-2451) by 8am.
Elective Type Category: AC- Advanced Clinical
Primary Contact for Adds/Drops:
Belinda Sanborn (bmsanbor@iu.edu)93AK700 - PEDIATRIC ANESTHESIA | Share Page
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Students will be exposed to a variety of facets of pediatric anesthesia. The full month includes predominantly OR anesthesia. The student will also spend some time with Certified Child Life Specialists, Acute Pain Service, Chronic Pain Service, and Preoperative Evaluation clinic as time permits. Book chapters and review articles are provided for most of these activities.Course Director: John D. Emhardt, M.D.
Campus: Indianapolis
Location: Riley Hospital for Children at IU Health (Indianapolis)
Elective Type Category: CP - Clinical Practice
Primary Contact for Adds/Drops:
Belinda M Sanborn ? bmsanbor@iu.edu93AN990 - SPECIAL ELECTIVE IN ANESTHESIA | Share Page
Description:
Please refer to the Electives Policies and Procedures (mse.medicine.iu.edu/student...) for more information on special electives. For special elective forms, see the "Student Elective Forms"" section (mse.medicine.iu.edu/student...)"Elective Type Category: SPECIAL ELECTIVE
93AN780 - ADVANCED CLINICAL ANESTHESIA | Share Page
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This ACE is designed for students seriously considering a career in the specialty of anesthesiology. Students will experience various aspects of perioperative and subspecialty care that will inform their decision for residency training. Students will be given an opportunity to rank-order subspecialties: acute pain service, obstetrical anesthesia, and pediatric anesthesia. Assignment to specific teaching hospitals will be arranged by the course coordinator. Students will be assigned for 2 or 3 weeks of perioperative anesthesia (OR, POCU, PACU) and 1 or 2 weeks of subspecialties. Students may choose to work a few afternoon and evening shifts in order to experience call-like schedules and cases, but neither in nor beeper call are required. Additionally, students may be presented with the opportunity to participate in simulation sessions with residents and faculty at Fairbanks Simulation Center. Clinical experience will be complemented by clinical teaching, didactic sessions, and departmental conferences. Independent and self -directed learning will be required through Canvas modules, assigned reading, PBLI, and reflective writing.
The primary focus of this ACE is to achieve a foundational level of understanding for the practice of anesthesiology as a specialty through involvement in the continuous care of patients from POCU, OR, and PACU until discharge, and at least one subspecialty area. Additionally, students will interact with residents to gain insight into anesthesiology training program expectations and ACGME requirements. It is important to note that this ACE course is designed to emphasize critical thinking, deductive reasoning, clinical decision making, and problem-based learning. Active learning will include cognitive, affective, communication, and interpersonal skill development. As such, there is not a case log requirement for this course, and students should not anticipate developing procedural skills.Course Director: Gulraj Chawla, M.D.
Campus: Indianapolis
Location: University, Methodist, Eskenazi, Riley Hospitals
Elective Type Category: AC- Advanced Clinical
Primary Contact for Adds/Drops:
Belinda Sanborn (bmsanbor@iu.edu)93BI720 - BIOCHEMISTRY OF DISEASE | Share Page
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The biochemistry elective is designed principally for students who wish to undertake biomedical research at a basic level. The student may select certain graduate lecture courses and/or participate in one of the current research programs of the Department of Biochemistry. This elective is also recommended for students registered in a combined M.D. - Ph.D. (M.S.) program, or who may be interested in a research based fellowship during/following residency.
Course Director: Mark G. Goebl, Ph.D.
Campus: Indianapolis
Location: Medical Science Building (Indianapolis)
Elective Type Category: AS - Advanced Science Research
Primary Contact for Adds/Drops:
Mark Goebl (mgoebl@iu.edu)93BI990 - SPECIAL ELECTIVE IN BIOCHEMISTRY AND MOLECULAR BIOLOGY | Share Page
Description:
Please refer to the Electives Policies and Procedures (mse.medicine.iu.edu/student...) for more information on special electives. For special elective forms, see the "Student Elective Forms"" section (mse.medicine.iu.edu/student...)"Elective Type Category: SPECIAL ELECTIVE
93HA990 - SPECIAL ELECTIVE IN CELLULAR AND INTEGRATIVE PHYSIOLOGY | Share Page
Description:
Please refer to the Electives Policies and Procedures (mse.medicine.iu.edu/student...) for more information on special electives. For special elective forms, see the "Student Elective Forms"" section (mse.medicine.iu.edu/student...)"Elective Type Category: SPECIAL ELECTIVE
93VA710 - CLINICAL DERMATOLOGY | Share Page
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This clinical elective will teach medical students how to approach the diagnosis and initial management of typical skin diseases seen in general practice. Students work directly with dermatology faculty and residents to treat patients in the setting of outpatient dermatology clinics and inpatient consults. Upon completion of this elective, the student will know the clinical features of the most commonly encountered skin diseases and be familiar with available therapies. The student will gain proficiency in the laboratory procedures used in the identification of fungal infections of the skin, and in basic dermatological procedures such as cryosurgery and skin biopsy.
Course Director: Alison Klenk, M.D.
Campus: Indianapolis
Location: IU Health University Hospital AOC Dermatology Clinic, Riley Hospital for Children at IU Health, Eskenazi Health Services, Roudebush VA Medical Center (Indianapolis) and other outpatient dermatology clinics
Elective Type Category: AC - Advanced Clinical
Primary Contact for Adds/Drops:
Kelli Cassidy (kelcassi@iu.edu )79VA730 - CLINICAL DERMATOLOGY | Share Page
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This elective course is designed to give the student exposure to clinical dermatology including the diagnosis and management of common skin diseases seen in general practice. Upon completion of this elective, the student will know the clinical features of the most commonly encountered skin diseases and will be familiar with the modalities available for their management. The student will get experience in the laboratory procedures used in the identification of fungus infections of the skin; and in the utilization of the electrocautery and cryosurgical unitsCourse Director: John K. Randall, M.D.
Campus: West Lafayette
Location: Randall Dermatology and Cosmetic Surgery (West Lafayette and Kokomo)
Elective Type Category: CP - Clinical Practice
Primary Contact for Adds/Drops:
Donna Fulkerson (drf@purdue.edu)02VA701 - DERMATOLOGY | Share Page
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This elective will provide the senior student with a clinical experience in the diagnosis and management of the common skin problems seen in the daily practice of medicine. The major emphasis will be on outpatient or office management and will include laboratory experience. The student will participate in the office surgical procedures-biopsy and/or treatment of skin problems.Course Director: Jeffrey Sassmannshausen, M.D.
Campus: Fort Wayne
Location: IUSM - Fort Wayne
Elective Type Category: AC- Advanced Clinical
Primary Contact for Adds/Drops:
Sharon Roberts (robeshar@iupui.edu)71VA707 - DERMATOLOGY | Share Page
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Students will gain experience in recognition and management of common skin diseases. Basic diagnostic procedures and differential diagnosis will be reviewed. Extensive skin cancer surgery is performed in the office and participation will be encouraged. Basic microscopic histopathologic correlation will be discussed and reviewed when pertinent. A recommended reading list will be available.Course Director: Holly Harris, M.D.
Campus: South Bend
Location: South Bend Clinic (South Bend)
Elective Type Category: CP - Clinical Practice
Primary Contact for Adds/Drops:
Stacey Jackson (sajacks@iu.edu)93VA730 - DERMATOLOGY TWO-WEEK CLINICAL ELECTIVE | Share Page
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This course is designed to serve as a 2-week introduction to clinical dermatology, including the diagnosis, medical and surgical management of skin diseases commonly seen in general practice. Students will work directly with Dermatology faculty and residents in one of several outpatient clinic settings. This elective is ideal for students pursuing a career in primary care, medical or surgical subspecialties, who desire an exposure to the field. The elective is flexible; students may contact the course director if they have a specific interest in the field of dermatology, so that we may plan their clinical experience according to their needs. This 2-week elective is worth 2 elective credits. This elective may be paired with vacation or another 2-week (2 credit) elective, in a related or different field. Students who prefer a more in-depth learning experience or who are considering a career in Dermatology should select the traditional 4-week (4 credit) elective, 93VA710.Course Director: Alison Klenk, M.D.
Campus: Indianapolis
Location: IU Health University Hospital, Eskenazi Health Services, Roudebush VA Medical Center (Indianapolis)
Elective Type Category: CP - Clinical Practice
Primary Contact for Adds/Drops:
Kelli Cassidy (kelcassi@iu.edu )93VA720 - DERMATOPATHOLOGY | Share Page
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This elective is designed to provide the student who is interested in a career in dermatology or pathology with an in-depth experience in the pathology of the skin. During the month the student will participate in daily sign out, attend weekly Dermatopathology conferences, and correlate clinical and pathologic findings at the weekly Dermatology Grand Rounds and on the dermatology consultation service where appropriate.Course Director: Simon Warren, M.D.
Campus: Indianapolis
Location: IU Health Pathology Laboratory, IU Health University Hospital (Indianapolis)
Elective Type Category: CP - Clinical Practice
Primary Contact for Adds/Drops:
Bev Jarrett (bjarrett@iupui.edu)93VA990 - SPECIAL ELECTIVE IN DERMATOLOGY | Share Page
Description:
Please refer to the Electives Policies and Procedures (mse.medicine.iu.edu/student...) for more information on special electives. For special elective forms, see the "Student Elective Forms"" section (mse.medicine.iu.edu/student...)"Elective Type Category: SPECIAL ELECTIVE
45VA701 - CLINICAL DERMATOLOGY | Share Page
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This clinical elective will teach medical students how to approach the diagnosis and initial management of typical skin diseases seen in general practice. Students work directly with dermatology faculty and residents to treat patients in the setting of outpatient dermatology clinics and inpatient consults. Upon completion of this elective, the student will know the clinical features of the most commonly encountered skin diseases and be familiar with available therapies. The student will gain proficiency in the laboratory procedures used in the identification of fungal infections of the skin, and in basic dermatological procedures such as cryosurgery and skin biopsy.
Course Director: David Soleymani, M.D.
Campus: Northwest-Gary
Location: Dermio Dermatology
Elective Type Category: AC- Advanced Clinical
Primary Contact for Adds/Drops:
Amy Han, PhD (amyhan@iu.edu)93ZE760 - CLINICAL ULTRASOUND | Share Page
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Clinical ultrasound has become an invaluable tool for assessment, diagnosis and treatment of patients in the emergency care setting. During this elective, participants will learn the basics of point of care ultrasound. Topics covered include: basic physics, knobology, eFAST, cardiac, first trimester OB, aorta, gallbladder, DVT and vascular access. The course will be limited to one student at a time, about five students throughout the year. Portions of the elective will be online learning modules that will require completion prior to hands-on scanning lessons. The hands-on portion of the elective will be six scanning sessions in the emergency department with US faculty, US fellow or resident teachers. The student will be expected to present an interesting case/critical appraisal at the end of the elective. They will be graded on their ability to perform two scans and appropriately interpret their images. They will also be graded by an end of rotation exam.Course Director: Audrey Herbert, M.D.
Campus: Indianapolis
Location: IU Health Methodist Hospital, Eskenazi Health Services (Indianapolis)
Elective Type Category: CP - Clinical Practice
Primary Contact for Adds/Drops:
Audrey Herbert (auherber@iu.edu)93ZE740 - ELECTIVE IN EMS | Share Page
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This course is designed to provide the student with an immersive experience in prehospital medicine, including perspectives from the paramedics, administration, and physician medical directors. Students will participate in ride-alongs with ambulance crews, Indianapolis Fire Department Supervisors, Indianapolis Emergency Medical Service Supervisors, Directors, and Medical Directors. Also, students may have the opportunity to fly with Lifeline Aeromedical Transport. Students are expected to complete a moderate amount of course reading covering the fundamentals of prehospital systems and medical direction, as well as present a brief review of a specific disease topic. Goal: The student will gain an understanding of modern Emergency Systems including history, design, and evolution. Please note: The ability to ride in the back of an ambulance is a requirement for this rotation. Students who are unable to do so secondary to motion sickness, claustrophobia, etc., should not enroll in this rotation as they will not be able to complete the requirements. Students will NOT be allowed to ride “up front” in the cab, as it poses a safety issue with regard to navigation to calls for the crew.
Course Director: Mark Liao, M.D.
Campus: Indianapolis
Location: Indianapolis Emergency Medical Services (Indianapolis)
Elective Type Category: CP - Clinical Practice
Primary Contact for Adds/Drops:
Jim Graber (jamgrabe@iu.edu)02ZE711 - EMERGENCY AND TRAUMA CENTER MEDICINE | Share Page
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The student will work directly with a board-certified Emergency Medicine physician in the Emergency Department setting. Emphasis is on developing skills necessary for the rapid assessment and treatment of multiple patients having a variety of medical and surgical illnesses, both minor and life-threatening.Course Director: John Ringquist, M.D.
Campus: Fort Wayne
Location: Professional Emergency Physicians (IUSM - Fort Wayne)
Elective Type Category: CP - Clinical Practice
Primary Contact for Adds/Drops:
Sharon Roberts (robeshar@iupui.edu)49ZE705 - EMERGENCY MEDICINE | Share Page
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The medical student will spend most of his/her time in the Emergency Department caring for both medical and surgical emergencies. One or two Emergency Department staff physicians (all board-eligible or board-certified in Emergency Medicine) will be present to staff each patient encounter. A great variety of cases will be seen by the medical student, e.g.; lacerations, burns, fractures, multiple trauma, acute myocardial infarctions, as well as a broad spectrum of medical surgical and pediatric emergencies. Special emphasis will be directed toward those areas of medicine that are unique to emergency medicine: toxicology, pre-hospital care, environment emergencies, resuscitation, and disaster management. The medical student will initially take a history and examine the patient. The staff physician will then discuss the case emphasizing pertinent historical and physical findings, formulating a differential diagnosis, and initiating a plan for work-up and treatment. The physician student team will also decide upon any further treatment modalities and the disposition of each case. This may include writing preliminary admission orders to the hospital. At the completion of the elective, the medical student should have a better understanding of the philosophy, function, and capabilities of a community emergency department treating over 75,000 cases yearly. The medical student should have a sound approach to the initial diagnosis and treatment of most life-threatening conditions as well as many acute illnesses seen in other out-patient setting and have gained an appreciation for the specialty of Emergency Medicine. The student will work approximately 32 hours per week in the Emergency Department with some clinical activities scheduled for evening and weekend hours.Course Director: Ross Heskett, M.D.
Campus: Indianapolis
Location: Franciscan Health (Indianapolis)
Elective Type Category: AC- Advanced Clinical
Primary Contact for Adds/Drops:
Amy Bova: (Amy.Bova@franciscanalliance.org)93ZE720 - EMERGENCY MEDICINE | Share Page
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Students will be assigned to rotate at either the Eskenazi or the Methodist Emergency Departments (although preferences will be attempted to be honored, students will be equitably distributed across both sites). Both facilities function as Level 1 trauma centers with large, diverse patient populations and serve as the clinical training sites for our EM residency. Eskenazi sees 100,000 patients/year who are primarily adults with medical or traumatic complaints. In addition, Eskenazi sees critically ill and injured children. The Methodist EMTC sees approximately 100,000 patients/year with 20% of that number being pediatric. There is an emphasis on focused patient evaluations and discriminate test ordering for a broad spectrum of illnesses and injuries. Principles of triage, prioritization, clinical decision-making, and multi-tasking are emphasized. The students assume primary responsibility for their patients and are staffed by Board Certified EM faculty and upper level EM residents. Exposure to the key elements of many other aspects of Emergency Medicine (Medical Toxicology, Out of Hospital Care) is possible. The clinical experience (45-55 hours per week) is supplemented by a structured didactic series covering the more common disease entities encountered in the ED setting. A suture lab focusing on wound closure techniques is included in the didactic series.
Course Director: Nash Whitaker, M.D.
Campus: Indianapolis
Location: Eskenazi Health Services or IU Health Methodist Hospital (Indianapolis)
Elective Type Category: AC - Advanced Clinical
Primary Contact for Adds/Drops:
Jim Graber (jamgrabe@iu.edu)82ZE702 - EMERGENCY MEDICINE | Share Page
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The student will actively participate in the activities of a 56,000 visit Emergency Department and work with and under the supervision of a full-time emergency medicine staff. He/she will examine patients, perform diagnostic procedures and work with the staff during treatment and disposition of patients. This will be done with emphasis on the student taking responsibility for the patient's care. The student may also be exposed to the pre-hospital care including telemetry and a ride-along program with paramedics. The department has undergone significant remodeling and now has 31 patient rooms. Seven of these rooms are devoted to a Fast Track for less acute problems, which the student would be exposed to. The Emergency Department also has an increased emphasis on trauma, as the hospital is developing a Level II Trauma Center for Evansville. Because of this emphasis on trauma, it is expected that the Emergency Department will be seeing more traumatic cases, for which the student would be actively involved. The Emergency Department also offers an eight-bed observation chest pain clinic which gives the student the opportunity to follow the patient from the Emergency Department through the observation and through discharge, all within 24 hours. Members of the physician staff are emergency medicine residency trained and can offer career guidance in the field of emergency medicine. This elective is conducted at Deaconess Hospital, Inc. a 300 bed hospital and may be taken in sequence with any other elective offered at the Evansville Center for Medical Education.Course Director: Andrew Houseman, M.D., Ph.D.
Campus: Evansville
Location: Deaconess Hospital (Evansville)
Elective Type Category: AC- Advanced Clinical
Primary Contact for Adds/Drops:
Caren Whitehouse (whitca@iu.edu)82ZE704 - EMERGENCY MEDICINE | Share Page
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The objective of the emergency medicine clinical rotation is to provide the student with meaningful exposure to the principles and practices of high quality emergency care. The clinical practice of emergency medicine includes patients of every age group with problems ranging from child abuse to cardiac arrest and from trauma to intoxication. The technique of rapid but thorough patient assessment will be taught with emphasis on the management of the acutely ill or injured patient. St. Vincent’s is the only hospital in the region and one of only three hospitals in Indiana to earn separate verification for Adult and Pediatric Trauma, making St. Vincent’s the site of two highly-qualified, nationally-verified trauma centers. The rotation may include clinical shifts at St. Vincent’s Medical Center main Emergency Department and the St. Vincent’s Warrick Emergency Department. All preceptors will be EM trained and EM board certified physicians with a passion for medical education.
Course Director: Otto Susec, M.D.
Campus: Evansville
Location: St. Vincent's Medical Center (Evansville)
Elective Type Category: CP - Clinical Practice
Primary Contact for Adds/Drops:
Caren Whitehouse (whitca@iu.edu)53ZE701 - EMERGENCY MEDICINE | Share Page
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The student will be exposed to a variety of Emergency Department patients. The student may see appropriate patients under the direction of a board certified Emergency physician and may perform history and physicals, write orders, and perform other procedures such as suturing intubation, chest tubes, etc. as approved by the physician. The Emergency Department is a Level II trauma department with a patient load of around 57,000 patients/year. Pertinent written material will be provided to the student. Students are encouraged to attend all hospital noon conferences. The student may also follow the Emergency physician to all in-house cardiopulmonary arrests. Patient load is increased during the months of May through October.Course Director: Andrew Watters , MD
Campus: Bloomington
Location: IU Health Bloomington Hospital (Bloomington)
Elective Type Category: AC- Advanced Clinical
Primary Contact for Adds/Drops:
Suzi Tolliver (stolliv@iu.edu)84ZE701 - EMERGENCY MEDICINE | Share Page
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The student will most of his/her time in the Emergency Department at Terre Haute Union Hospital. The student will be working one-on-one with an Emergency Department Staff physician who is either board-eligible or board-certified in Emergency medicine. The medical student will be expected to perform an initial history and physical, and then present their findings to the attending physician. The staff physician will then discuss the case emphasizing pertinent historical and physical findings, formulating a differential diagnosis, and initiating a plan for work-up, treatment and disposition. The student will be expected to take part in many different types of cases including fast track, surgical emergencies, and trauma. Terre Haute Union Hospital is a 350 bed hospital certified Chest Pain Center with a Level III Trauma Center Emergency Department containing 4 trauma rooms, 2 isolation rooms, 5 fast track rooms, and 30 medical beds. At the end of the rotations, students will have developed an understanding and appreciation of Emergency medicine. The student will have also developed a sound approach to the initial diagnosis and treatment of most life-threatening conditions as well as many acute illnesses seen in other out-patient settings.Course Director: Anita Toussi, M.D., Ph.D., FACEP, MBA
Campus: Terre Haute
Location: Union Hospital-Terre Haute
Elective Type Category: CP - Clinical Practice
Primary Contact for Adds/Drops:
Heather LeBrun (heather.lebrun@indstate.edu)02ZE701 - EMERGENCY MEDICINE | Share Page
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The objective of the emergency medicine clinical rotation is to provide the student with meaningful exposure to the principles and practices of high quality emergency care. The clinical practice of emergency medicine includes patients of every age group with problems ranging from child abuse to cardiac arrest and from trauma to intoxication. The technique of rapid but thorough patient assessment will be taught with emphasis on the management of the acutely ill or injured patient. The student will have an opportunity to interact with the emergency care team at many levels including: attendance at medical education conferences, paramedic and EMT training and in-service, advanced cardiac and trauma life support programs, as well as ongoing emergency department educational presentation. The rotation will include clinical shifts at Lutheran Hospital Main Emergency Department and the Lutheran Hospital Pediatric Emergency Department, St Joseph and Dupont Hospital. All preceptors will be EM trained and EM board certified physicians with a passion for medical education.
Course Director: Andrew Offerle, M.D.
Campus: Fort Wayne
Location: IUSM - Fort Wayne Lutheran RN Lutheran children's, St Joseph or DuPont
Elective Type Category: CP - Clinical Practice
Primary Contact for Adds/Drops:
Sharon Roberts (robeshar@iupui.edu)20ZE701 - EMERGENCY MEDICINE | Share Page
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This course is designed to provide on-site rotation with emergency trained physicians in a community-based hospital Emergency Department. A student can expect exposure to multiple patient volume, care of blunt and penetrating trauma, acute medical illness in adult and pediatric patients and industrial medicine. If the student is in the fourth year and has some experience, greater responsibility and freedom can occur. Housing is available if necessary. This course will provide interested students with exposure to Residency trained career Emergency Medicine physicians in a busy community practice.
Course Director: David Van Ryn, M.D.
Campus: South Bend
Location: Elkhart General Hospital (Elkhart)
Elective Type Category: AC - Advanced Clinical
Primary Contact for Adds/Drops:
David Van Ryn, M.D./Diane Sink (dvanryn@eepi.net; dsink@eepi.net)79ZE704 - EMERGENCY MEDICINE - IU HEALTH ARNETT | Share Page
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The student will learn fundamental approaches to caring for the undifferentiated urgent and emergent condition in the SERH system Emergency Rooms. The student will experience the clinical opportunity of history taking, patient examination, interpreting laboratory and diagnostic tests and formulating a plan of care under the direction and guidance of a well-trained clinical faculty in an urban setting embracing two Emergency Rooms within the hospital system. The elective offers flexibility in choosing schedules from morning to afternoon, afternoon through evening hours, and nighttime shits, each of which present a different array of clinical and patient encountersCourse Director: Jill Grant, M.D.
Campus: West Lafayette
Location: IU Health Arnett Hospital (Lafayette)
Elective Type Category: AC- Advanced Clinical
Primary Contact for Adds/Drops:
Donna Fulkerson (drf@purdue.edu)46ZE701 - EMERGENCY MEDICINE AT LAPORTE HOSPITAL | Share Page
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The student will do initial emergency care of patients in an active community emergency department. He/she will have full time supervision by our emergency department physicians and in addition will enjoy the participation of a full complement of specialists in our emergency department. We expect the student to work with enthusiasm and guarantee this to be a positive learning experience.
Course Director: James Leonard, D.O.
Campus: Northwest-Gary
Location: IU Health La Porte Hospital (La Porte)
Elective Type Category: CP - Clinical Practice
Primary Contact for Adds/Drops:
Amy Han, PhD (amyhan@iu.edu)71ZE713 - EMERGENCY MEDICINE IN THE COMMUNITY HOSPITAL | Share Page
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Students will be required to be present in the Emergency Department 40 hours per week. The clinical aspects of emergency medicine will be emphasized and supervision will be individualized for each student.Course Director: Donald F. Zimmer, M.D.
Campus: South Bend
Location: Memorial Hospital (South Bend)
Elective Type Category: CP - Clinical Practice
Primary Contact for Adds/Drops:
Stacey Jackson (sajacks@iu.edu)93ZE730 - EMERGENCY MEDICINE STUDENTS IN RESEARCH PROGRAM | Share Page
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This elective is intended to promote research and evidence-based medicine education to medical students. The program provides on-line didactics, assigned readings and tests to insure that the students gain an understanding of basic clinical research principles, research ethics, and evidence-based medicine. The course director will pair the student with one or more faculty mentors, and the student will assist the mentor with an ongoing research project in emergency care. All students must complete human subjects training (CITI). Work on individual projects can be diverse, and may range from data collection, data entry, and telephone calls, to real time screening for patients in ongoing clinical research. In addition, students are asked to attend the scheduled biweekly departmental clinical research meeting, and may have other lecture and reading requirements. Students may be asked by their faculty mentor to cover a designated number of 6-hour shifts in the emergency departments of Methodist and Eskenazi hospitals to identify patients eligible for ongoing studies. An opportunity also exists to work in translational laboratory setting. In most cases, students will be paired one on one or in small groups with a faculty mentor. This represents a unique opportunity to allow medical students to directly participate in the performance of clinical research, while also providing them with an education on basic research methodology and research ethics. Occasionally, as a result of their work on elective, students have been named as authors on abstracts or manuscripts.Course Director: Jeffrey Kline, M.D.
Campus: Indianapolis
Location: IUSM - Indianapolis, IU Health Methodist Hospital, Eskenazi Health Services (Indianapolis)
Elective Type Category: AS - Advanced Science Research
Primary Contact for Adds/Drops:
Kimberly McClish (kmcclish@iu.edu)45ZE703 - GENERAL EMERGENCY CARE | Share Page
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The clinical experience is unlimited in an emergency department with a service flow of more than 100 patients daily. The student will have the opportunity to evaluate patients in all disciplines. He/she will take care of history, physical exams and observe many procedures. He/she will be able to order and interpret laboratory studies and x-rays. Experience will be gained in EKG, cardiac monitoring and life threatening emergencies. Lecture experience consists of attendance at regularly scheduled conferences of the hospital teaching program.Course Director: Cynthia Galvan, M.D.
Campus: Northwest-Gary
Location: The Methodist Hospital, Inc. (Gary)
Elective Type Category: AC- Advanced Clinical
Primary Contact for Adds/Drops:
Cynthia Galvan MD (cynthia.galvan.md@gmail.com)93KZ710 - PEDIATRIC EMERGENCY MEDICINE | Share Page
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Medical students will spend 16 (sixteen) shifts in the Riley Hospital for Children Emergency Department. The student will be expected to evaluate patients in a logical, efficient manner utilizing a problem-oriented approach. For each patient, the student will generate an appropriate differential diagnosis; recognize and rule-out potentially life- threatening problems; develop a plan for management, stabilization, and work-up. Each patient will be staffed directly with one of the Riley Emergency Department staff physicians, a pediatric emergency fellow, or, occasionally, an upper level emergency/pediatrics resident. This elective will also help the student develop key procedural skills including but not limited to lumbar puncture, central line placement, peripheral IV placement, procedural sedation, bladder catheter placement, and airway management. Medical students recognize indications for, and arrange as indicated: admission, transfer, outpatient follow-up; use consultants and resources (for example, poison control center, medical records, Child Protective Services, etc.) appropriately. In addition to traditional clinical experience, the medical students will be given the opportunity to participate in the Department of Emergency Medicine residency ongoing pediatric advocacy and outreach programming. Examples of this include bicycle/ATV safety interventions, new models of healthcare delivery for high-risk asthma, health policy activities, pediatric EMS protocols, etc. Students will also attend the monthly Pediatric Emergency Medicine simulation session, and the monthly Department of Emergency Medicine journal club.
Course Director: Anne C. Whitehead, M.D.
Campus: Indianapolis
Location: Riley Hospital for Children at IU Health (Indianapolis)
Elective Type Category: AC- Advanced Clinical
Primary Contact for Adds/Drops:
Jim Graber (jamgrabe@iu.edu)93ZE750 - SIMULATION IN MEDICAL EDUCATION | Share Page
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The Simulation in Medical Education elective is for students interested in an advanced understanding of high-fidelity simulation. Medical students and residents regularly utilize high-fidelity mannequins to simulate high-risk clinical scenarios in a safe, low-risk setting. The goal of this rotation is to learn more about what goes into medical simulation sessions: from the drawing board to educational delivery. Students will be involved with case creation, session programming and setup, as well as controlling high-fidelity mannequins.
Course Director: Dylan Cooper, M.D.
Campus: Indianapolis
Location: The Simulation Center at Fairbanks Hall (Indianapolis)
Elective Type Category: PD - Professional Development
Primary Contact for Adds/Drops:
Dylan Cooper, MD (ddcooper@iu.edu)93ZE990 - SPECIAL ELECTIVE IN EMERGENCY MEDICINE | Share Page
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Please refer to the Electives Policies and Procedures (mse.medicine.iu.edu/student...) for more information on special electives. For special elective forms, see the "Student Elective Forms"" section (mse.medicine.iu.edu/student...)"Elective Type Category: SPECIAL ELECTIVE
45ZE704 - EMERGENCY MEDICAL SERVICES WITH GARY FIRE DEPARTMENT | Share Page
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This course is designed to be an immersive experience in pre-hospital medicine in Gary, Indiana allowing the student to experience perspective role of the paramedics, administration, and physician medical directors. Student are to participate in ride-alongs with Gary Fire/EMS, Paramedics and EMS Chiefs. Shifts will be 8-12hrs in length. Students are excepted to complete a moderate amount of course reading on the fundamentals of pre-hospital care, complete required FEMA Online modules, and produce an EMS presentation or protocol review on a specific EMS topic.
Course Director: Jude Kieltyka, M.D.
Campus: Northwest-Gary
Location: IUSM- Northwest
Elective Type Category: CP- Clinical Practice
Primary Contact for Adds/Drops:
Amy Han, PhD (amyhan@iu.edu)71ZE740 - EMS ELECTIVE | Share Page
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This course is designed to provide the student with an immersive experience in prehospital medicine, including perspectives from Emergency Medical Services (EMS) dispatchers, providers, educators, administrators, and physician medical directors. Among other activities, students will participate in "ride-alongs" with local emergency response crews, and may also have the opportunity to fly with Memorial MedFlight air medical transport. Students will work closely with a physician medical director and EMS coordinator. In addition, students will have the opportunity to be included in the community paramedicine program providing mobile integrated healthcare to South Bend residents. When active shooter or mass casualty drills are scheduled, students will be a member of the simulation team. Students will also participate in a day with the local dispatcher. Students are expected to complete a moderate amount of course reading covering the fundamentals of prehospital systems and medical direction, as well as present a brief review of a specific disease topic or quality improvement measure at a local EMS educational session.
Course Director: Keith Sherry, M.D.
Campus: South Bend
Location: Memorial Hospital
Elective Type Category: CP- Clinical Practice
Primary Contact for Adds/Drops:
Stacey Jackson (sajacks@iu.edu)84ZE702 - EMERGENCY MEDICINE - RURAL TRACK | Share Page
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The student will spend the rotation in the Emergency Department at Good Samaritan Hospital in Vincennes, Indiana. The student will be working one on one with an ED staff physician. The student will be expected to perform an initial history and physical, and present their findings to the attending physician. The case will be discussed and progress to formulating a differential diagnosis, initiating a plan for workup of the patient, along with treatment and disposition. The student will be expected to take part in various types of emergency cases including fast-track, common ED cases, critically ill, and surgical and trauma cases. A major emphasis will be placed on the uniqueness and limitations of a rural emergency department. Good Samaritan Hospital is a Level III Trauma center and certified primary stroke center and has 24-hour availability of a cardiac cath lab. The ED has 4 trauma rooms, 16 medical beds, and 3 fast-track beds. At the end of the rotation, the student will have developed an appreciation for the skill set required in a rural ED for diagnosis and management of acute illness and life-threatening conditions.
Course Director: Lance Payton, M.D.
Campus: Terre Haute
Location: Good Samaritan - Vincennes
Elective Type Category: AC - Advanced Clinical
Primary Contact for Adds/Drops:
Heather LeBrun (thelects@iu.edu)49YF724 - AMBULATORY CARE FAMILY MEDICINE ELECTIVE | Share Page
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This elective is designed to expose 3rd or 4th Year Medical Students to all aspects of primary care medicine. Students will work with faculty members the Family Medicine Program and some PGY3 Family Medicine residents to develop skills in obtaining focused histories and physical exams, as well as formulating a differential diagnosis and treatment plan for a variety of acute and chronic illnesses or injuries presenting to the primary care office. The Family Medicine Center provides urgent care, chronic disease management and preventive care services to patients of all ages.The faculty and residents will make every effort to accommodate special interests and learning agendas that the student may present, offering the opportunity, under supervision, to manage variety of acute and chronic injuries and/or illnesses and to perform a variety outpatient procedures. Students will attend Family Medicine Didactic sessions with the residents on Thursday afternoons, including Grand Rounds, Journal Club, Morbidity and Mortality Conference and lectures and workshop relating to outpatient medicine.Course Director: Jon Moulder, M.D.
Campus: Indianapolis
Location: IU Health Methodist Hospital and IU/Methodist Family Medicine Center (Indianapolis)
Elective Type Category: CP - Clinical Practice
Primary Contact for Adds/Drops:
Renata Jones (rjones53@iuhealth.org)49YX702 - AMBULATORY CARE IN A FAMILY MEDICINE CENTER | Share Page
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Working with residency program faculty and residents, students will obtain experience and expertise efficiently evaluating patients of all ages in the outpatient setting. They will demonstrate the basic knowledge, skills, and attitudes of ambulatory care in a family medicine office. They will be able to generate a differential diagnosis and initial treatment plan and/or plan for further evaluation. Preventive health maintenance will also be emphasized.
Course Director: Louis L. Winternheimer, M.D.
Campus: Indianapolis
Location: Community Hospital (Indianapolis)
Elective Type Category: CP - Clinical Practice
Primary Contact for Adds/Drops:
Maria Stumpf (MStumpf@ecommunity.com); Marc Whitaker (MWhitaker2@ecommunity.com)93YX700 - AMBULATORY CARE PRECEPTORSHIP IN FAMILY MEDICINE | Share Page
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The students will see patients in the office setting under the supervision of a family physician. The experience will stress the components of primary ambulatory care including continuity of care, preventive health measures, assessment of health risk factors and early identification of disorders as well as diagnosis and treatment of the commonly encountered diseases in an office setting. The Medical Student Education (MSE) staff will assist students with obtaining a qualified instructor for the elective. Students should visit or contact MSE Program Coordinator at (317) 278-0300 or via email at fmclerk@iupui.edu to identify family medicine preceptors. All arrangements for a specific instructor, month, and community will also be made through this same office. Students may use this elective for Indiana only. Out-of state electives require special elective course number.Course Director: Ruben Hernandez, M.D.
Campus: Indianapolis
Location: Various communities throughout Indiana
Elective Type Category: AC - Advanced Clinical
Primary Contact for Adds/Drops:
Natalie Rollman, Family Medicine Elective Student Education Coordinator (fammeded@iupui.edu)49YX704 - AMBULATORY CARE WITH A FAMILY PHYSICIAN | Share Page
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This elective is designed to expose 3rd or 4th Year Medical Students to the exciting field of Traditional Family Medicine; inpatient, outpatient, and obstetrical care. Students will work with faculty and residents of the Family Practice Program. They will spend their mornings and two afternoons, alongside their senior Family Medicine resident in the Family Medicine Hospitalist Service; triaging, admitting, diagnosing, presenting, and managing Obstetrical, Pediatric, Adult, and Geriatric patients from the Emergency Room, the Family Practice Center, the community physician offices, and other services at Methodist Hospital. They will be expected to manage and follow patients assigned to them on the Med-Surg floors, Pediatric floors, Labor & Delivery and Postpartum floor, and Critical Care floors, alongside the Family Medicine Interns and under the supervision of the senior Family Medicine resident and faculty. Students will have opportunity to follow some of the hospitalized patient in the outpatient setting by accompany the senior resident or faculty in their afternoon Family Medicine clinic two times a week. There the students will learns how to do the focused history and physical, and how to diagnosis, treat, and manage in the outpatient setting a variety of common acute and chronic injuries and/or illnesses such as gestational diabetes, a infant with a fever, asthma, fractures, wound care, malignant hypertension, COPD, CHF, and osteoporosis just to name a few. Students will attend Family Medicine Didactics sessions with the residents on Thursday afternoons. Students are expected to spend 3 night calls and 2 weekends with the service during the month. The faculty and residents will make every effort to accommodate special interests and learning agendas that the student may present, offering the opportunity, under supervision, to manage variety of acute and chronic injuries and/or illnesses and to do variety outpatient and inpatient procedures to include colposcopy, spirometry, exercise cardiac stress test, central venous line placement, joint aspirations and injections, casting, thoracentesis, deliveries, patient counseling, and more.
Course Director: Jacqueline Nonweiler-Parr, M.D.
Campus: Indianapolis
Location: IU Health Methodist Family Practice Center (Indianapolis)
Elective Type Category: CP - Clinical Practice
Primary Contact for Adds/Drops:
Kristie Espinal (kespinal@iu.edu)93YX710 - CARE FOR THE UNDERSERVED | Share Page
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This elective provides medical students and residents an opportunity to gain experience in caring for underserved populations at well established community health centers. A majority of these clinics are located in inner city Indianapolis where a large number of working poor, minorities, and limited English proficiency people live. The month-long experience will emphasize high quality of care for underserved populations, cultural competence, and medical Spanish utilizing clinical experience in a full spectrum Family Medicine practice in a community health center setting.Course Director: Javier Sevilla-Martir, M.D.
Campus: Indianapolis
Location: Various communities throughout Indianapolis
Elective Type Category: CP - Clinical Practice
Primary Contact for Adds/Drops:
Javier Sevilla ( jsevilla@iupui.edu )53YF700 - Clinical Family Medicine | Share Page
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Outpatient only experience in Family Medicine. Students will work side-by-side with a faculty physician seeing patients in a 100% ambulatory care experience. Students will be doing a combined shadow and independent care program where they will be seeing 3-5 patients a day with supervision. Students will be expected to interview the patients, develop appropriate differential diagnosis, and come to an appropriate assessment and plan for each patient with attention to cost of care in a primary care setting. Students will be expected to document their cases in the EMR so they will get a real life look into the working lifestyle of a Primary Care Provider. In addition to patient care, students will be expected to research a Family Medicine topic each week and provide a short, 5-minute presentation regarding this topic. Finally, one day will be spent learning about practice management of an office.Course Director: Michael Teague, M.D.
Campus: Bloomington
Location: IU Health Morgan (Martinsville)
Elective Type Category: CP - Clinical Practice
Primary Contact for Adds/Drops:
Suzi Tolliver (stolliv@iu.edu)93YF730 - DOMESTIC GLOBAL HEALTH EXPERIENCE | Share Page
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The elective is a Domestic Global Health opportunity to participate as an advocate in your community . This is a 4 week local experience in Indianapolis with focus on cultural competencies in a global health experience designed to immerse students in direct understanding of the barriers that our foreign born patients face in the local medical system as well as increase the medical knowledge related with travel and tropical medicine. During this course the student will have the opportunity to work in clinics that serve multicultural populations, recent immigrants, refugees as well as observe a travel medicine clinic. They will also have the opportunity to participate in some of the local community organizations that have direct contact with the immigrant and refugee population. The community partner is IUSM Student Outreach Clinic.
Course Director: Ruben Hernandez Mondragon, M.D.
Campus: Indianapolis
Location: Private Office (Indianapolis)
Elective Type Category: CP - Clinical Practice
Primary Contact for Adds/Drops:
Natalie Rollman, Family Medicine Electives Student Education Coordinator (fammeded@iupui.edu)71YF707 - FAMILY MEDICINE | Share Page
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The student will be assigned to a member of the family medicine staff and to a resident in family medicine. The student will see multiple patients in an active Family Medicine Center on a daily basis. Students are acquainted with the scope of Family Medicine in both hospital and office settings. This includes following ambulatory patients in the Family Medicine model office, with an opportunity to participate in a health-oriented rather than a disease-oriented practice. Time can be allocated for special interests at the discretion of the director, such as obstetrics, sports medicine, and care of the underserved.
Course Director: Michele Collins, M.D.
Campus: South Bend
Location: St. Joseph Regional Medical Center (Mishawaka)
Elective Type Category: AC - Advanced Clinical
Primary Contact for Adds/Drops:
Stacey Jackson (sajacks@iu.edu)49YF704 - FAMILY MEDICINE - HOSPITALIST SERVICE | Share Page
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This elective is designed to expose 4th Year Medical Students to all aspects of hospital care. Students will work with faculty and residents of the Family Medicine Residency Program. Students will work along with the Family Medicine Resident on Duty for the Family Medicine Hospitalist Service and triage, admit, diagnose, present, and manage Obstetrical, Pediatric, Adult, and Geriatric patients from the Emergency Room, the Family Medicine Center, the community physician offices, and other services at Methodist Hospital. They will be expected to manage and follow patients assigned to them on the Med-Surg floors, Labor & Delivery and Postpartum floor, and Critical Care floors, alongside the Family Medicine Interns and under the supervision of the senior Family Medicine resident and faculty. Students will attend Family Medicine Didactics sessions with the residents on Thursday afternoons. Students are expected to spend a week of night calls and 2 weekends with the service during the month. The faculty and residents will make every effort to accommodate special interests and learning agendas that the student may present, offering the opportunity, under supervision, to manage variety of acute and chronic injuries and/or illnesses and to do variety inpatient procedures to include central venous line placement, joint aspirations and injections, paracentesis, deliveries, patient counseling, and more.
Course Director: Brock McMillen, M.D.
Campus: Indianapolis
Location: IU Health Methodist Hospital (Indianapolis)
Elective Type Category: AC- Advanced Clinical
Primary Contact for Adds/Drops:
Stephanie Billings (sbillin@iu.edu)71YF713 - FAMILY MEDICINE - IN-DEPTH ELECTIVE | Share Page
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Full Spectrum Family Medicine rotational experience. Prior to participation in the elective, the student will receive background information on family medicine and a detailed schedule of the elective. The student, functioning in the capacity of a junior resident, will team up with a senior family medicine resident, caring for adult, pediatric and OB patients in both inpatient and outpatient settings. The student will be expected to take call with the senior resident, as mutually agreed upon. The student will participate in daily educational conferences. The elective will emphasize problem solving skills leading to the practice of comprehensive, high quality, cost conscious, ambulatory care medicine. Extra areas of interest are available upon request including time in an underserved clinic, more OB experience, Sports Medicine exposure and/or colonoscopy.Course Director: Rachel Schuster, D.O.
Campus: South Bend
Location: Memorial Hospital (South Bend)
Elective Type Category: CP - Clinical Practice
Primary Contact for Adds/Drops:
Stacey Jackson (sajacks@iu.edu)49YF702 - FAMILY MEDICINE - INPATIENT | Share Page
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Student will work with faculty and residents of the Family Practice Residency program. Emphasis will be placed on practical, clinical experience through direct patient care in the hospital. Students will be able to generate an appropriate differential diagnosis and initial and ongoing care plan for evaluation and treatment. Students will function as the patients' primary physician while in the hospital and will do follow-up in the Family Medicine Center if necessary. The student will be afforded the opportunity of obtaining experience in diagnostic and treatment modalities both in the hospital (60%) and in ambulatory settings (40%). The importance of continuous and comprehensive care in Family Medicine will be appreciated by the student.
Course Director: Louis L. Winternheimer, M.D.
Campus: Indianapolis
Location: Community Hospital (Indianapolis)
Elective Type Category: CP - Clinical Practice
Primary Contact for Adds/Drops:
Maria Stumpf (MStumpf@ecommunity.com); Marc Whitaker (MWhitaker2@ecommunity.com)49YF706 - FAMILY MEDICINE ADULT INPATIENT SERVICE | Share Page
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Family Medicine residents rotate on the Adult Inpatient Medicine Service (AIMS). The student will function as a sub-Intern on an AIMS team consisting of one Senior Family Medicine Resident and two Family Medicine Intern Residents. Faculty physicians may be Family Medicine, or Internal Medicine physicians. The student does not take call, but will have some days until 9 p.m. The student will provide the primary care for 2-5 patients at a time. Didactic sessions will include daily Attending Teaching Rounds, daily Afternoon Report and Noon Conference, and weekly Medicine Grand Rounds.Course Director: Elizabeth Roth, M.D.
Campus: Indianapolis
Location: St. Vincent Hospital (Indianapolis)
Elective Type Category: CP - Clinical Practice
Primary Contact for Adds/Drops:
Beth Dragoo (BVDRAGOO@ascension.org)49YX706 - FAMILY MEDICINE AMBULATORY CARE ROTATION | Share Page
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This primary care ambulatory rotation is an excellent opportunity to finally function like the Family Doctor you've been waiting to be. In many ways, this is an outpatient sub-internship, based on your level of patient care responsibility. You will have the opportunity to evaluate and implement treatment plans on patients in the Family Medicine Center at the St. Vincent Joshua Max Simon Primary Care Center. On this rotation, you will work either directly with one of the residents/faculty in their continuity clinics, or as part of a team, functioning on an Open Access, or same-day appointment, system. You will also participate in weekly family medicine didactics.
Course Director: Elizabeth Roth, M.D.
Campus: Indianapolis
Location: St. Vincent Hospital (Indianapolis), Primary Care Center
Elective Type Category: CP - Clinical Practice
Primary Contact for Adds/Drops:
Beth Dragoo (BVDRAGOO@ascension.org)93YF700 - FAMILY MEDICINE RESEARCH ELECTIVE | Share Page
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Family Medicine scholarship and research covers a wide spectrum of topics and methods. As such, these options are available for students interested in a research elective: (1) the student will identify a research topic related to cultural competency in the healthcare setting; or (2), the student will identify a research topic concerned with public health and healthcare delivery; or (3), the student will identify a research topic related to his own research interests. For all options, the student will conduct in-depth research with guidance from Family Medicine faculty. The course director and course instructor must approve the proposed research project in advance.
Course Director: Scott Renshaw, M.D.
Campus: Indianapolis
Location: IUSM - Indianapolis
Elective Type Category: AS - Advanced Science Research
Primary Contact for Adds/Drops:
Natalie Rollman (nrollman@iu.edu)84YF713 - FAMILY MEDICINE SUB-INTERNSHIP | Share Page
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The student will directly participate in all phases of patient care under the direct supervision of an upper-level resident, and residency faculty. 1. Attend morning staffing and teaching rounds. 2. Attend resident didactics and Thursday morning CME at Union Hospital. 3. Complete at least 2 afternoons in the Family Medicine Center seeing acute ambulatory problems. 4. Inpatient experience including work-ups, progress notes, dictation of discharge summaries, patient presentations, and rounding 5. Two nights with night-float team required during the month, with an opportunity for additional night experience as schedules permit.Course Director: Steven A McDonald, M.D.
Campus: Terre Haute
Location: Union Hospital (Terre Haute)
Elective Type Category: AC- Advanced Clinical
Primary Contact for Adds/Drops:
Heather LeBrun (heather.lebrun@indstate.edu)02YF731 - FAMILY MEDICINE SUB-INTERNSHIP | Share Page
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The purpose of this elective is to acquaint the student with the specialty of Family Medicine, including the postgraduate training in that discipline, at the Fort Wayne Family Practice Residency. The student directly participates in all phases of patient care under the direct supervision of a senior resident, the Residency Director, and/or the residency faculty. The student attends hospital rounds with the residents and all educational conferences or lectures scheduled for the residency. After-hours patient care in conjunction with the resident(s) on call in the hospital is encouraged. Substantial exposure to Obstetric, Emergency, and Critical Care problems are common in this setting. Arrangements with the Residency Director to design and implement a research project in areas pertinent to Primary Care are possible.Course Director: Paul Blusys, M.D.
Campus: Fort Wayne
Location: Fort Wayne Center for Medical Education (Fort Wayne)
Elective Type Category: AC- Advanced Clinical
Primary Contact for Adds/Drops:
Sharon Roberts (robeshar@iupui.edu)84YF793 - FAMILY MEDICINE-CARE FOR THE UNDERSERVED | Share Page
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Students will combine hands-on clinical experiences along with some observational experiences in an out-patient setting. The student will actively participate in the management of patients without health insuranceCourse Director: Gregory Brock, D.O.
Campus: Terre Haute
Location: Wabash Valley Health Clinic (Terre Haute)
Elective Type Category: CP - Clinical Practice
Primary Contact for Adds/Drops:
Heather LeBrun (heather.lebrun@indstate.edu)49YF705 - FAMILY PRACTICE | Share Page
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Student will be assigned to a Family Practice Faculty member and a Family Practice Resident and will have direct patient care experience in the office and the hospital. 1. Attend morning staffing and teaching rounds. 2. Attend morning and noon conferences. 3. Complete at least 2 afternoons in the Family Practice center seeing acute ambulatory problems. 4. Inpatient experience including work-ups, progress notes, patient presentations and rounding. 5. Two night calls required during the month. Our desire is to provide the senior student with an experience similar to an internship under direct supervision by a 1st and 3rd year resident without the responsibilities and pressures of a first year resident.
Course Director: Richard Feldman, M.D.
Campus: Indianapolis
Location: Franciscan Health (Indianapolis)
Elective Type Category: CP - Clinical Practice
Primary Contact for Adds/Drops:
Amy Bova (amy.bova@franciscanalliance.org)18YF701 - FAMILY PRACTICE | Share Page
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Welcome to the wonderful world of Family Medicine! This rotation is designed to expose medical students to the full spectrum of Family Medicine with both inpatient and outpatient experiences. We educate students in all aspects of primary care and can assist in career decisions. First contact with patients, development of differential diagnosis, and expansion of treatment plans will be stressed. Each student will participate in our family practice center under the supervision or our program directors and residents. The standard rotation schedule includes experiences in obstetrics, pediatrics, outpatient FMRC clinic, behavioral health clinic, and inpatient palliative care. Several procedures are available as well and participation is encouraged. The schedule can be tailored to weigh more heavily in the following areas if desired:• Obstetrics (students can be paired with a resident and participate in a continuity delivery)• Outpatient procedures (OB and MSK ultrasound, colonoscopy, colposcopy, dermatologic procedures, IUD and nexplanon, toenail surgery and more)• Inpatient and outpatient adult medicine and pediatrics experiencesEvaluation: Every resident and faculty member with whom the student works will complete an evaluation. Using these evaluations, the course director will complete an overall evaluation which will be used to determine a final grade.Course Director: Luke S. Ernstberger, M.D.
Campus: Muncie
Location: IU Health Ball Memorial Hospital (Muncie)
Elective Type Category: CP - Clinical Practice
Primary Contact for Adds/Drops:
Elaine Wisner (ewisner@iuhealth.org)82YF702 - FAMILY PRACTICE | Share Page
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Student will be associated with the Family Medicine Residency Program and will learn fundamentals of family medicine by clinical experience through direct patient care. Emphasis is placed on management of the entire family in a community setting. Will follow patients in private office and/or Family Medicine residency office, hospital, and home environment. Rural office setting available to those interested, with hospital work done at Deaconess. Student will be assigned to an instructor who is available during the selected month. This elective may be taken in sequence with any other electives offered at Evansville. Housing, if needed, may be available on the hospital campus.Course Director: Charles A. Strickland, M.D.
Campus: Evansville
Location: Deaconess Hospital (Evansville)
Elective Type Category: AC- Advanced Clinical
Primary Contact for Adds/Drops:
Caren Whitehouse (whitca@iu.edu)02YF701 - FAMILY PRACTICE - PRIVATE PRACTICE PRECEPTORSHIP | Share Page
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The purpose of this elective is to acquaint the senior student with the specialty of Family Medicine in the context of private practice in that discipline. The student is assigned to work in conjunction with a Family Practitioner in the community. Mornings will generally consist of hospital rounds with the preceptor. Afternoons will be spent at the physician's office. The student will have an opportunity to directly participate, with supervision, in all aspects of patient care. Attendance, with the preceptor, at hospital Staff and Continuing Education Meetings, home care, and community medical activities is encouraged. Arrangements to spend free time in the various conferences and activities of the Fort Wayne Family Practice Residency are possibleCourse Director: Paul Blusys, M.D.
Campus: Fort Wayne
Location: Fort Wayne Medical Education Program (IUSM - Fort Wayne)
Elective Type Category: CP - Clinical Practice
Primary Contact for Adds/Drops:
Sharon Roberts (robeshar@iupui.edu)84YF743 - FIELD WORK IN INTEGRATIVE MEDICINE | Share Page
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This experiential integrative medicine rotation will provide the learner with exposure to different integrative/complementary/alternative modalities currently being accessed by patients in Indiana. This will be accomplished by arranging for the student to spend time with a variety of integrative/alternative healthcare providers. It is important that the learner understand which modalities are evidence-based and which modalities are not supported by evidenceCourse Director: Roy W. Geib, Ph.D.
Campus: Terre Haute
Location: IUSM - Terre Haute
Elective Type Category: PD - Professional Development
Primary Contact for Adds/Drops:
Heather LeBrun (heather.lebrun@indstate.edu)93YF720 - HEALTHY LIFESTYLE AND FITNESS IN MEDICINE | Share Page
Description:
Obesity is affecting people from all ages and backgrounds in this country and is increasing the cost of health care by been linked directly to multiple illness such as Coronary Artery disease, Diabetes, Hypertension, Obesity, Osteoarthritis, Depression, Reflux, to name a few. It is our responsibility as physicians to guide patients on achieving a healthy lifestyle by proper diet and an exercises routine. This is a 4 week experience in Indianapolis with focus on introducing The American College of Preventive Medicine lifestyle medicine competencies to students and residents which includes: 1)Leadership, 2)Knowledge, 3)Assessment Skills, 4)Management Skills, 5)Use of Office and Community Support. During this course the student will have interaction with Family Medicine providers that interact with patient reaching goals of proper nutrition and physical activity to promote health and wellness, but also interact with nutritionist and fitness instructors to acquire the skills for proper counseling and promotion of health. There is a chance for the student to interact with other learners such as Sport science and nutrition students.Course Director: Ruben H. Mondragon, M.D.
Campus: Indianapolis
Location: IU/Methodist Family Medicine Center, IU Health Physicians Family Medicine One America Tower, IU Health Methodist hospital, IU Health University Hospital (Indianapolis)
Elective Type Category: CP - Clinical Practice
Primary Contact for Adds/Drops:
Natalie Rollman, Family Medicine Electives Student Education Coordinator (fammeded@iupui.edu)71YF717 - OBSTETRICS: FAMILY CENTERED PERINATAL MEDICINE | Share Page
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The students will participate in the obstetrics service as junior residents. Emphasis will be placed on learning clinical skills through a "hands on" approach. Student will participate in scheduled conferences, clinical rounds, and a high risk clinic. Students will take call with senior residents a few times during the month.Course Director: Michele Collins, M.D.
Campus: South Bend
Location: St. Joseph Regional Medical Center (Mishawaka)
Elective Type Category: AC- Advanced Clinical
Primary Contact for Adds/Drops:
Stacey Jackson (sajacks@iu.edu)84YF760 - POINT OF CARE ULTRASOUND | Share Page
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The student will have an introduction to ultrasonography and its point of care application. The student will complete didactic sessions learning the basic principles of ultrasound, knobology, and the clinical uses of bedside point of care ultrasound. The student will observe ultrasound in a variety of clinical settings including the hospital radiology department, cardiovascular imaging laboratory, obstetric sonography laboratory, emergency department, and simulation center. The student will perform hands on point of care ultrasound in simulation and clinical settings under the guidance of ultrasonography and physician faculty. The student will be expected to gain an understanding of point of care ultrasound and to gain experience in performing bedside point of care ultrasound. Point of care areas will include trauma, limited echocardiography, E-Fast, renal, hepatobiliary, 1st trimester pregnancy, gynecology, deep venous thrombosis, ocular, pediatric, musculoskeletal, and vascular access. Additional areas may include peripheral nerve blocks, musculoskeletal, 2nd/3rd trimester pregnancy, and critical care.
Course Director: Michael Gamble, M.D.; MBA; RDMS
Campus: Terre Haute
Location: IUSM- Terre Haute
Elective Type Category: PD- Professional Development
Primary Contact for Adds/Drops:
Heather LeBrun (heather.lebrun@indstate.edu)84YF733 - PREGNANCY AND BIRTH CARE | Share Page
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The students will participate in the provision of inpatient care and deliveries for pregnant women, plus newborn care for their babies, including circumcisions. They will participate in teaching rounds, the OB conferences in the Family Practice Center as well as other resident conferences. There will be an ample opportunity to do pelvic exams and participate in deliveries. Call is flexible but some call is required.Course Director: Kathleen Coutinho, M.D.
Campus: Terre Haute
Location: Union Hospital (Terre Haute)
Elective Type Category: CP - Clinical Practice
Primary Contact for Adds/Drops:
Heather LeBrun (heather.lebrun@indstate.edu)02YF709 - PRIMARY CARE - UNINSURED AND UNDERSERVED | Share Page
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Matthew 25 Health and Dental Clinic is a free clinic with a mission to provide primary care to the uninsured residents of Allen County, Indiana, who live at or below 125% of the poverty level. The student will be exposed to a variety of advanced pathology at Matthew 25 Health Clinic. Patients present to the clinic with multiple significantly advanced diseases due to their lack of timely access to traditional primary care. As a result, they present with more advanced and a greater number of medical and psychiatric problems than the average primary care patient who has access to standard medical care. The student will directly witness the impact of economy, environment, health policy and advocacy, law and oversight, and social influence on patient health and the delivery of primary care to underserved patients. Through interaction with such complex patients, the student will also learn how to improve the care of such patients using resources available through the free clinic and other local safety net services. In addition to the advanced complex medical conditions at the free clinic, the clinic provides care to patients from a diverse background of cultures, spirituality, social influence, and health literacy. Through the evaluation and management of the patients, the student will recognize the impact of culture, spirituality, social influence, and health literacy on the delivery of health care to such a population. In addition to the above activities, the student will acquire experience with law and oversight issues related to the operation of a primary care clinic in Indiana. As the Medical Director of the clinic, Dr. O'Hara will have the opportunity to discuss law and oversight issues with the student to complete the requirements for the Social and Community Contexts of Health Care competency.
Course Director: Brenda O'Hara, M.D.
Campus: Fort Wayne
Location: IUSM - Fort Wayne
Elective Type Category: CP - Clinical Practice
Primary Contact for Adds/Drops:
Sharon Roberts (robeshar@iupui.edu)79ZS702 - PRIMARY CARE SPORTS MEDICINE | Share Page
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This elective is designed to provide the student with exposure to sports medicine as an extension of practice in family medicine. The focus will be on common musculoskeletal injuries and conditions in children, adolescents, and adults with an emphasis on learning a thorough joint exam of the ankle, knee, hip, shoulder, wrist, and back. The student will also learn treatment options for common musculoskeletal injuries, including joint injections and the role of physical therapy. Non-musculoskeletal sports injuries such as concussions will also be discussed. Use of Musculoskeletal ultrasound for diagnosis and procedures will be taught as well.Course Director: Jeffrey Wang, M.D.
Campus: West Lafayette
Location: IU Health Arnett Southside Family Medicine, IU Health Arnett Orthopedics and Sports Medicine (Lafayette)
Elective Type Category: CP - Clinical Practice
Primary Contact for Adds/Drops:
Donna Fulkerson (drf@purdue.edu)84ZS702 - PRIMARY CARE SPORTS MEDICINE | Share Page
Description:
This primary care Sports Medicine rotation will provide medical students an opportunity to learn about and participate in the evaluation and management of athletes and active individuals in both an office setting and high school and collegiate training room settings. Students will be expected to evaluate patients and develop a treatment plan while incorporating event coverage, sports nutrition, sports psychology, and didactic lectures.Course Director: Andrew McDonald, M.D.
Campus: Terre Haute
Location: UAP Bone and Joint Center (Terre Haute)
Elective Type Category: AC- Advanced Clinical
Primary Contact for Adds/Drops:
Heather LeBrun (heather.lebrun@indstate.edu)83YF701 - ROLE OF CRITICAL ACCESS HOSPITAL IN RURAL INDIANA | Share Page
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This 4th-year elective will consist of a month-long rotation at a critical access hospital (CAH) at one of the above sites. Under the supervision of family physicians and other specialists, the student will participate in all aspects of health care delivery provided by this CAH. The student will also participate in health care delivery at local nursing homes as well as in a mental health facility located in an adjacent county. A student s typical day would include: Participating in morning rounds Clinical experiences, in half-day increments, with the site s Physician assigned. Reflections will be required.Course Director: Stephanie Laws, M.S.N., R.N.
Campus: Terre Haute
Location: Union Hospital (Clinton), Sullivan County Community Hospital (Sullivan), Greene County General Hospital (Linton), St. Vincent Clay Hospital (Brazil), Putnam County Hospital (Greencastle), Mary Margaret Hospital (Batesville), Community Hospital of Bremen,
Elective Type Category: AC- Advanced Clinical
Primary Contact for Adds/Drops:
Heather LeBrun (heather.lebrun@indstate.edu)84YF773 - RURAL FAMILY PRACTICE | Share Page
Description:
Very large rural practice with exposure to inpatient and outpatient experience including obstetrics, surgery, nursing home, board of health and even coroner's duties. Large numbers of colonoscopies, EGD's, ultrasound, and outpatient surgery exposure plus 5-10 deliveries a month. Housing and meals available. The student will be working in a rural area in a busy family practice group of 4 physicians and two nurse practitioners. They will be seeing patients in the office, doing an assessment and conferring on proper treatment and follow-up. They may be able to assist with a delivery and other hospital procedures. The student should be able to develop a problem list and differential diagnosis and carry out a treatment plan.Course Director: James Turner, D.O.
Campus: Terre Haute
Location: Mary Sherman Hospital (Sullivan); Additional site: Sullivan Family Practice
Elective Type Category: CP - Clinical Practice
Primary Contact for Adds/Drops:
Heather LeBrun (heather.lebrun@indstate.edu)93YF990 - SPECIAL ELECTIVE IN FAMILY MEDICINE | Share Page
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Please refer to the Electives Policies and Procedures (mse.medicine.iu.edu/student...) for more information on special electives. For special elective forms, see the "Student Elective Forms"" section (mse.medicine.iu.edu/student...)"Elective Type Category: SPECIAL ELECTIVE
93YF740 - HEALTH OF GENDER AND SEXUAL MINORITY PATIENTS | Share Page
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As it relates to the care of transgender persons, the student will develop increased awareness of the meaning of gender-affirming care and what medical, behavioral, and surgical care this may include. The student will familiarize themselves with national resources as well as the World Professional Association for Transgender Health (WPATH) Standards of Care which outline recommendations for the care of gender diverse persons. The student will have an opportunity to learn skills in initiation of cross-sex hormonal therapy for transgender patients as well as gain first-hand experience of many other supportive services that are offered in an urban transgender health clinic including speech therapy, mental health services, nutrition, medical-legal partnership, care coordination, etc. A component of the coursework will relate to the care of sexual minority patients and will include primary-care setting practice in obtaining a sexual history and familiarization with disease prevention, specifically pre-exposure prophylaxis of HIV infection and guidelines for prevention of other STIs. Students will develop greater awareness of psychosocial factors that are determinants of the health of gay, lesbian, and bisexual individuals. More broadly, the student will gain a greater understanding of health disparities faced by the LGBTQ+ community and hone skills in providing culturally humble care to all patients regardless of their sexual orientation/practices, romantic relationships, or gender identity. This will include focused training on active communication skills that improve the patient-physician relationship and foster greater understanding of patient experience and values. Most unique to this course, will be the student's participation in the multidiscplinary team in the transgender clinic that enables such whole person care and addresses the various needs of the transgender patient.
Course Director: Juan Carlos Venis, M.D., MPH
Campus: Indianapolis
Elective Type Category: AC- Advanced Clinical
Primary Contact for Adds/Drops:
Natalie Rollman (fammeded@iupui.edu)93YX720 - SPORTS MEDICINE | Share Page
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The course is a four-week block rotation consisting of ambulatory sports medicine clinics with the faculty of the Indiana University Center for Sports Medicine. Half days of primary care sports clinic focus on outpatient evaluation and treatment of common musculoskeletal pathology as well as medical conditions encountered in the active population. Time is spent in the training room for IUPUI athletes as well as sideline coverage of appropriate seasonal sporting events. Sports medicine didactic lectures are attended on a weekly basis. A required written paper or presentation is completed with the help of faculty.
Course Director: Kimbre Zahn, M.D.
Campus: Indianapolis
Location: IU Center for Sports Medicine (Indianapolis)
Elective Type Category: AC- Advanced Clinical
Primary Contact for Adds/Drops:
Shannan Hall (hallshr@iupui.edu)18ZS711 - SPORTS MEDICINE | Share Page
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The sports medicine elective is designed to concentrate on the primary care aspects of sports medicine as well as exposing the student to a multi-disciplinary approach to sports medicine practice. During the clerkship the student will be involved in contact with between 300 and 400 acute and chronic sports injuries and illnesses mostly of junior high, high school, and college level athletes as well as a large number of recreational and senior athletes. Patient contacts will come from the Sports Medicine Clinic at Central Indiana Sports Medicine. In addition, training room sessions are available that will allow experience in dealing with acute injuries in Division I NAIA and high school athletes. The medical student will have the opportunity to deal with acute injuries first-hand and will gain experience in training of the athlete, emergency care and transportation of the athlete, and finally, definitive diagnostic procedures to be used. Experience will include office care of the athlete, coverage of various sporting events on the campus of Ball State University, and informal teaching sessions with the athletic training staff, physical therapists, and various consultants in sports medicine. The student will gain knowledge not only in the clinical aspects of sports medicine, but also in the philosophy of primary care sports medicine, rehabilitation techniques, and the important aspects of prevention in sports medicine. Each student will be required to select an area of sports medicine to investigate during their period of rotation. A thorough review of the literature and a short lecture presentation at the end of the elective is required.Course Director: Jeremy Hunt, M.D.
Campus: Muncie
Location: IU Health Ball Memorial Hospital (Muncie)
Elective Type Category: AC- Advanced Clinical
Primary Contact for Adds/Drops:
Elaine Wisner (ewisner@iuhealth.org)46YF711 - SPORTS MEDICINE | Share Page
Description:
This is a one month rotation consisting of outpatient primary care sports medicine along with some exposure to sports physical therapy, orthopedics and sideline event coverage. Students will also be introduced to the use of ultrasound guided diagnostics and therapeutic injections while on rotation as used in a sports medicine practice. One-on-one teaching will be provided from faculty to student throughout the rotation in the form of lectures and clinical discussion. A required presentation on an assigned topic for one didactic session will be completed with the help of faculty. Additionally, students will be encouraged to attend Friday morning case conferences. Primary office location will be the Indiana University Health La Porte Orthopedics and Sports Medicine center, but other locations for learning opportunities may be utilized to complete objectives of this rotation.
Course Director: Sarah Bancroft, D.O.
Campus: Northwest-Gary
Location: IU Health La Porte Orthopedics and Sports Medicine Center (La Porte)
Elective Type Category: CP - Clinical Practice
Primary Contact for Adds/Drops:
Amy Han (amyhan@iu.edu),Brittany Miller (millerby&iun.edu, Stacey Jackson, sajacks@iu.edu71YF723 - SPORTS MEDICINE | Share Page
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The student will be involved in individual one-on-one teaching, lecture-based teaching, outpatient, office and clinic management. In addition, the student will be exposed and will assist in sideline sports event coverage from a sports medicine standpoint and training room coverage of the chronically injured athlete. There will be didactics on a twice-a-week basis, lectures on Monday morning and interactive, interesting case conferences on Fridays. The student will meet once with the journal club during the rotation. Oral presentation, observations, written presentations, clinic demonstrations and service will all be methods in which the medical student will express how they have learned and how they will be evaluated. Outpatient Sports Medicine- Exposure to High School, Collegiate Recreational Athletes. Weekly didactic lectures, weekly interesting case conferences. Weekly Training Room, casting clinic, work with physical therapists, exercise physiologist. Exposure to Sports Medicine physicians and fellows. Learn numerous procedures - casting, injections, musculoskeletal ultrasound (both diagnostic and interventional), EKG treadmills stress test, orthotics, etc.Course Director: Linda Mansfield, M.D.
Campus: South Bend
Location: Sports Medicine Institute/ Memorial Hospital (South Bend)
Elective Type Category: CP - Clinical Practice
Primary Contact for Adds/Drops:
Stacey Jackson (sajacks@iu.edu)71YF727 - SPORTS MEDICINE/ PRIMARY CARE | Share Page
Description:
The course objective is to provide a primary care sports medicine experience. The majority of the month will be devoted to sports medicine related experiences. Student will participate in the care of patients of all ages. The student will attend office-based sports medicine clinics and high school and college training room clinics with attending physicians. Also, the student will attend a college student health center. There will be weekly didactic lectures, conferences and opportunity for academic projects. Orthopaedic as well as non-orthopaedic sports medicine issues will be addressed.
Course Director: Stephen Simons, M.D.
Campus: South Bend
Location: St. Joseph Regional Medical Center (Mishawaka)
Elective Type Category: AC - Advanced Clinical
Primary Contact for Adds/Drops:
Stacey Jackson (sajacks@iu.edu)45YF709 - URBAN MEDICINE - CARE FOR THE UNDERSERVED | Share Page
Description:
The entire American healthcare industry is undergoing a dramatic change, and physicians will have to know more than the technical aspects of their profession to participate meaningfully in shaping this change. Federally-Qualified Health Centers (FQHC's) have expanded beyond their traditional role of providing basic healthcare services to the underserved to being laboratories for designing changes in how primary healthcare is delivered. Students in this elective will learn about the economic, cultural, and sociological context of American healthcare, and will get an introduction to the managerial challenges of re-designing healthcare systems to produce good outcomes effectively and efficiently to patients in an urban setting.
Course Director: Janet Seabrook, M.D.
Campus: Northwest-Gary
Location: Community HealthNet (Gary, Hammond, and Merrillville)
Elective Type Category: AC- Advanced Clinical
Primary Contact for Adds/Drops:
Amy Han, PhD (amyhan@iu.edu)64YX709 - URBAN MEDICINE - CARE FOR THE UNDERSERVED | Share Page
Description:
The entire American healthcare industry is undergoing a dramatic change, and physicians will have to know more than the technical aspects of their profession to participate meaningfully in shaping this change. Federally-Qualified Health Centers (FQHC s) have expanded beyond their traditional role of providing basic healthcare services to the underserved to being laboratories for designing changes in how primary healthcare is delivered. Students in this elective will learn about the economic, cultural, and sociological context of American healthcare, and will get an introduction to the managerial challenges of re-designing healthcare systems to produce good outcomes effectively and efficiently to patients in an urban setting.
Course Director: Tim Ames, M.D.
Campus: Northwest-Gary
Location: Healthlinc Community Health Center (Valparaiso)
Elective Type Category: CP - Clinical Practice
Primary Contact for Adds/Drops:
Amy Han, PhD (amyhan@iu.edu)64YX719 - URBAN MEDICINE - CARE FOR THE UNDERSERVED | Share Page
Description:
The entire American healthcare industry is undergoing a dramatic change, and physicians will have to know more than the technical aspects of their profession to participate meaningfully in shaping this change. Federally-Qualified Health Centers (FQHC's) have expanded beyond their traditional role of providing basic healthcare services to the underserved to being laboratories for designing changes in how primary healthcare is delivered. Students in this elective will learn about the economic, cultural, and sociological context of American healthcare, and will get an introduction to the managerial challenges of re-designing healthcare systems to produce good outcomes effectively and efficiently to patients in an urban setting.
Course Director: Rujuta Ghandi, M.D.
Campus: Northwest-Gary
Location: North Shore Health Centers (Portage-Northwest)
Elective Type Category: CP - Clinical Practice
Primary Contact for Adds/Drops:
Amy Han, PhD (amyhan@iu.edu)02YF702 - PRIMARY CARE SPORTS MEDICINE | Share Page
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This elective is designed to expose the medical student to the breadth of primary sports medicine includingevaluation and treatment of acute injuries, overuse injuries, degenerative arthritis, and medical diagnosisafflicting athletes.Course Director: Aaron Watters, MD
Campus: Fort Wayne
Elective Type Category: CP - Clinical Practice
Primary Contact for Adds/Drops:
Sharon Roberts (robeshar@iu.edu)93YX730 - SPORTS MEDICINE WITH COMMUNITY ENGAGEMENT | Share Page
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The course will focus on a multi-disciplinary approach to the sports medicine practice. The student will be involved in contact with patients who have acute and chronic sports medicine injuries as well as high performing athletes. Patient experience will come from various sports medicine clinics in Indianapolis. In addition, training room sessions are available at local high schools in the Indianapolis Metropolitan area. The medical student will also be involve in community amateur and professional sporting events, in which they will have the opportunity to perform pre-assessment evaluations, deal with acute injuries first-hand, and become familiar with concussive diagnostic procedures. During the clinical encounter the student will be trained on how to obtain a detailed sports history, perform appropriate musculoskeletal physicals, interpret imaging, and provide a viable plan or care. Certain procedures observed will be basic steroid injections, ultrasound guided procedures, and PRP (Platelet Rich Plasma) Injections. Training sessions will also involve athletic training staff, physical therapists, and casting clinic. Each student will be required to select an area of sports medicine to investigate during their period of rotation and present at the end of the rotation to the Course Director.
Course Director: Arnold Henry, M.D.
Campus: Indianapolis
Location: Methodist Hospital Sports Medicine
Elective Type Category: CP- Clinical Practice
Primary Contact for Adds/Drops:
Natalie Rollman (fammeded@iupui.edu)82YF704 - FAMILY MEDICINE IN A COMMUNITY-BASED RESIDENCY | Share Page
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Student will be associated with the Family Medicine Residency Program in Jasper, Indiana and will learn fundamentals of family medicine by clinical experience through direct patient care. Emphasis is placed on management of the entire family in a community setting. Student will follow patients in clinic and/or Family Medicine Residency office, hospital, long-term care facilities, and home environment. Students will experience a wide-range of clinical experiences in a rural, community setting. Residents are involved in the teaching of this course. Housing is provided.
Course Director: Nikola Conrad, M.D.
Campus: Evansville
Location: Memorial Hospital and Health Care Center
Elective Type Category: AC- Advanced Clinical
Primary Contact for Adds/Drops:
Caren Whitehouse (whitca@iu.edu)71ZH900 - GLOBAL HEALTH ELECTIVE IN GHANA | Share Page
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The global health elective in Ghana is a four-week international health experience designed to immerse students in a developing country to gain a more direct understanding of the Ghanaian culture including language, public health issues and Ghanaian spiritual beliefs intersecting with health and illness. Students would receive training by TMS Global (partnering institution) and Ghanaian professionals on language, culture and medical care as it relates to the patient-doctor relationship and medical decision-making. Students think critically about global health challenges and practices while developing basic Twi language skills and working side by side with host country health care providers located at the Ankaase Hospital in Ankaase, Ghana. Clinical work occurs at community, mission-based health care facilities and governmental based public health organizations. The mission-based health care facilities offer prayer rounds and staff devotional sessions that are optional for students to participate. It is not a requirement of the elective to participate in these activities.
Course Director: Cameron Gongwer, M.D.
Campus: South Bend
Location: Ankaase Hospital - Ankaase, Ghana
Elective Type Category: AC - Advanced Clinical
Primary Contact for Adds/Drops:
Stacey Jackson (sajacks@iu.edu)89ZI701 - ADMINISTRATIVE MEDICINE | Share Page
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In this elective, the student will participate in administrative activities for a medium-sized community health system, working along side its Vice President of Medical Affairs, participating in administrative team meetings and activities, including public events. The student will participate on Lean-Six Sigma project teams. The student will also select and preform a research project and provide presentations of the project planning, execution and results to the administrative team.Course Director: Thomas W. Huth, M.D.
Campus: Muncie
Location: Reid Hospital & Health Care Services (Richmond)
Elective Type Category: PD - Professional Development
Primary Contact for Adds/Drops:
Tiffany.Ridge (Tiffany.Ridge@ReidHealth.org)45ZI701 - ADVANCED MEDICAL PROBLEM SOLVING | Share Page
Description:
Students will select a disease entity, find a real case, find and record test results, duplicate imaging studies, study relevant literature, write a case in standard PBL style, including resources, tutor guide, guiding questions and vocabulary. Goal: To provide students with an opportunity to use multidisciplinary problem solving skills to write a Problem-based Learning Case for possible future use in teaching medical students.
Course Director: Amy Han, Ph.D.
Campus: Northwest-Gary
Location: Northwest Center for Medical Education (Gary)
Elective Type Category: PD - Professional Development
Primary Contact for Adds/Drops:
Amy Han (amyhan@iu.edu)93KI720 - ADVANCED META-COGNITION AND MEDICAL KNOWLEDGE | Share Page
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This course is designed for students with interest in how other students learn and how to develop resources and interventions to improve student performance. The course uses small group setting in which students can benefit from peer and facilitator feedback and support other's learning.Course Director: Abigail Klemsz, M.D., Ph.D.
Campus: Indianapolis
Location: IUSM - Indianapolis
Elective Type Category: PD - Professional Development
Primary Contact for Adds/Drops:
Kristin Richey (Klivelys@iupui.edu)84ZM710 - ADVANCED TOPICS IN BIOMEDICAL INFORMATICS AND TECHNOLOGY | Share Page
Description:
Offered for students completing the Introduction to Health IT & Informatics elective and seeking to expand to more advanced topics in Biomedical Informatics and Technology. Topics are drawn from: principles of biomedical data representation, software design, standardization of terminology and communication, clinical decision support, mathematical modeling, clinical information systems, genetics/genomics, the use of literature and molecular sequence databases, human-computer interaction, imaging informatics, natural language processing, big data, the cloud, public health informatics, and telehealth, and various areas pertaining to leading methods in biomedical research and development supported by an understanding of advanced biomedical informatics concepts.
Course Director: James Brent Orndorff, MSHI, HIM
Campus: Terre Haute
Location: IUSM - Terre Haute
Elective Type Category: PD - Professional Development
Primary Contact for Adds/Drops:
Heather LeBrun (heather.lebrun@indstate.edu)93ZI790 - ADVOCATING FOR THE FUTURE OF MEDICINE | Share Page
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Student will participate in Indiana State Medical Association (ISMA) legislative activities. Student will work with the Director of Government Relations (DGR) for the ISMA while at the Indiana Statehouse or meeting with ISMA physician members. Activities include, but are not limited to, research of health care issues impacting the citizens of Indiana, preparing talking points to be used in testimony on specific legislative bills during legislative hearings, monitoring legislative committee agendas and testimony, testifying before various Assembly and Senate Committees on health care related legislation. There may be additional opportunities to work directly with State Representatives and/or Senators on specific bills related to health care.Course Director: Richard Gunderman, M.D., Ph.D.
Campus: Indianapolis
Location: Riley Hospital for Children at IU Health (Indianapolis)
Elective Type Category: PD - Professional Development
Primary Contact for Adds/Drops:
Dr. Richard Gunderman (rbgunder@iupui.edu )93ZH890 - CONCEPTS IN SEXUALITY FOR THE CLINICIAN | Share Page
Description:
As a basic and pervasive component of human existence, sexuality is a topic that physicians should be familiar and comfortable with in relation to their patients health and wellbeing. This elective course will address the often delicate issue of human sexuality as it relates to clinical medicine in particular, and being human and involved in human relationship in general. Experts in their field, faculty members will present lectures, lead discussions, and enable students to better understand the complex interplay between sex, culture, and gender, while gaining confidence in dealing with the social and medical implication of sexuality. To ensure a wellrounded, interdisciplinary approach, students will study clinical case studies, textbooks, and journal articles, as well as literary works of fiction, non-fiction, poetry and film. Students will develop a 45-minute presentation on a topic relating to human sexuality as it relates to medicine to be presented to the students and the public.Course Director: Richard Gunderman, M.D., Ph.D.
Campus: Indianapolis
Location: IUSM - Indianapolis
Elective Type Category: PD - Professional Development
Primary Contact for Adds/Drops:
Dr. Richard Gunderman (rbgunder@iupui.edu )93ZI710 - COMMUNITY IMMERSION AND INNER CITY HEALTH EDUCATION | Share Page
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This rotation will provide students with the opportunity to design a comprehensive plan to address health literacy at Indianapolis Metropolitan High School. The students will focus on creating population-specific educational materials that are written with the patient s accessibility in mind. Activities will include creating and delivering in-person lectures to help educate students and families at the Indianapolis Metropolitan High School. They will be responsible for updating guidelines and creating the materials presented individually or in groups. The students will summarize the education materials covered for the month and identify best approaches for future student educators.
Course Director: Antione Haywood, Ph.D.
Campus: Indianapolis
Elective Type Category: PD - Professional Development
Primary Contact for Adds/Drops:
Emily Laughlin (erlaughl@iu.edu)93ZI701 - CREATIVITY IN MEDICINE | Share Page
Description:
While medical knowledge and clinical skills increase dramatically as medical students progress through medical school, there is reason to believe that creativity the use of reflection and imagination to create original work is not only under-emphasized but actively inhibited in medical education. This elective is designed to help students understand the importance of creativity in their medical education and the critical role it can play in improving and innovating the systems through which we deliver care. We will explore creativity in five distinct ways: readings, guest speakers, creative shadowing, field trips and personal projects. At the end of the rotation, students will present their personal projects at the pediatric neuro-oncology team meeting.Course Director: Alex Lion, D.O.
Campus: Indianapolis
Location: Riley Children's Hospital
Elective Type Category: PD- Professional Development
Primary Contact for Adds/Drops:
Dr. Alex Lion (alion@iupui.edu)93ZI770 - CURRENT ISSUES & ADVOCACY IN MEDICINE | Share Page
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A course exploring current issues in medicine and effective advocacy techniques through journal articles, guest lecturers, documentaries, and literature. Topics will include but are not limited to affordable care act (ACA)/healthcare funding , electronic medical records (EMR), patient satisfaction-based payments, technology and healthcare, cost of healthcare, malpractice/tort reform, retail clinics, and global healthcare systems. Students will be expected to complete a project addressing a contemporary healthcare issue through advocacy.Course Director: Richard Gunderman, M.D., Ph.D.
Campus: Indianapolis
Location: Riley Hospital for Children at IU Health (Indianapolis)
Elective Type Category: PD - Professional Development
Primary Contact for Adds/Drops:
Dr. Richard Gunderman (rbgunder@iupui.edu )93ZH900 - GLOBAL HEALTH ELECTIVE: LATIN AMERICA | Share Page
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The ENLACE Global Health Elective: Latin America, El Salvador immerses Phase 3 medical students in a 4-week international global health experience in a developing country in Central America. Participants undergo an introduction to global health issues and policies; begin to think critically about ethics in global health volunteerism; examine global health challenges and compare and contrast the systematic, policy and experiential differences between health care in the US and El Salvador.
Students learn/hone Spanish language skills in daily classes, work alongside host country health care providers and live with a host family. Clinical work occurs at community-based health care facilities, non-governmental public health organizations and health promoter organizations.
It doesn’t matter if you can only say “hola” or if you majored in Spanish, you will finish the month with improved and polished Spanish speaking skills. You will study Spanish language, grammar, and structure with strong emphasis on conversation. You will put your new skills to work when interacting with your host family, El Salvadorian physicians, health promoters, and patients at local hospitals and clinics.
The academic program of the Global Health Elective: Latin America revolves around 6 components:
1. Ethics in global health volunteerism
2. Tertiary and ambulatory clinical work
3. Medical / Public Health issues facing Central America
4. Spanish conversation / Medical Spanish acquisition
5. Cultural humility
6. Critical reflection
The rotation consists of the following required activities:
• Pre-Departure: complete preparatory modules on principles of global health; participate in orientation sessions covering topics on cultural norms and expectations, how to recognize and mediate culture shock, nuts and bolts of living in a developing country; how to pack for a month in 1 bag, etc.; read and lead discussions on safety and security issues; select and develop and submit a clinically-focused lecture-discussion on disease/illness disproportionality plaguing El Salvador for presentation pre-departure.
• In-Country: participate in orientation sessions covering topics on El Salvadoran history, health & well-being and safety & security while in El Salvador; present clinically-focused lecture-discussion on a disease/illness disproportionality plaguing El Salvador; live with El Salvador host family; attend daily Spanish Language School; attend and actively participate in clinical work with assigned El Salvadoran health care professionals three half-days/week; submit weekly reflections; participate in service learning project related to public health issue.
• Upon Return to US: Write and submit a 3-page Policy Brief on disease/illness selected for clinical presentation; complete required evaluations.
Course Director: Javier F. Sevilla Martir, M.D.
Campus: Indianapolis
Location: Suchitoto, El Salvador
Elective Type Category: AC - Advanced Clinical
Primary Contact for Adds/Drops:
Jennifer Custer ( jcuster@iupui.edu)93ZH790 - HEALTH CARE IN DEVELOPING COUNTRIES | Share Page
Description:
This elective provides an opportunity for students to participate in a medical elective a country of their choice. The elective is primarily clinical with approximately 40 hours per week of clinical time with a physician preceptor; if desired, up to 20 hours a week may be used instead for health systems analysis and/or language learning. This elective provides students with an increased understanding of the issues involved in health care in developing countries. The elective may be for one month, but two months is strongly recommended especially if traveling to the Eastern Hemisphere.Course Director: Jennifer Baenziger, M.D.
Campus: Indianapolis
Location: Various mission, NGO, or academic hospitals throughout the world in low- or low-middle income countries by World Bank classification. The student chooses the location, and it must be approved by the course director 6 months in advance. Locations in non-lo
Elective Type Category: AC- Advanced Clinical
Primary Contact for Adds/Drops:
Jenny Baenziger, MD (jbaenz@iu.edu) and Victoria Eder (vneder@iu.edu) -- both must be emailed53ZI702 - HEALTHCARE LEADERSHIP | Share Page
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This elective in healthcare leadership and administration will expose the 4th year medical student to the theoretical and practical aspects of the health care delivery system from a historical, comparative, economic, cultural and ethical perspective. In this elective, the student will participate in administrative activities of a medium-sized community health system, working alongside its Chief Medical Officer and other administrative leaders/departments. Participation in case management, human resources management; health law/risk management; billing and accounting will allow the student to better understand the role of non-clinical departments on the patient care experience.Course Director: Dan Handel, M.D.
Campus: Bloomington
Elective Type Category: PD - Professional Development
Primary Contact for Adds/Drops:
Suzie Tolliver (stolliv@iu.edu)93ZL710 - HISTORY OF MEDICINE | Share Page
Description:
This class meets twice to three times weekly and will consist primarily of reading and discussion. Students must attend all in-class seminar sessions and actively participate in the in-class discussions. Each student is required to complete the three class assignments. Each student is also required to complete the final project-- either a 10-page typed, double-spaced research paper on any history of medicine subject or a 1-hour PowerPoint presentation (complete with annotated bibliography and speech notes) jointly agreed upon by the student and Dr. Gunderman. Goals: To develop a greater appreciation for the history of medicine and stimulate a lifelong interest in learning more about the origins and developments of their chosen profession.
Course Director: Richard Gunderman, M.D., Ph.D.
Campus: Indianapolis
Location: IUSM - Indianapolis
Elective Type Category: PD - Professional Development
Primary Contact for Adds/Drops:
Dr. Richard Gunderman (rbgunder@iupui.edu )84ZM700 - INTRODUCTION TO HEALTH & INFORMATICS | Share Page
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Rapid advances in technology in today's world allow physicians to utilize technology to extend therapy. This elective offers an introduction to the common terms, concepts and breakthroughs in the fields of Health Information Technology (HIT) and Biomedical Informatics. A prime example is the use of mobile apps for diabetic patients, medication management, or patients with chronic conditions that require ongoing evaluation. It is an exciting time to practice medicine and explore new tools such as recent use of "wearables" in ambulatory care or the use of voice-to-text for patient care summary notes. The objectives of this course are designed to improve interactions with new applications, the use of medical mobile apps and emerging technologies in medicine, and prepare the medical student ahead of residency. In addition to gaining an entry-level education in HIT and Informatics, students will also learn about common medical coding terminologies, Issues in the US health care system and implications of health laws such as HIPAA, HITECH, ARRA, FDASIA and ACA.
Course Director: Orndorff Brent, MSHI, HIM
Campus: Terre Haute
Location: IUSM - Terre Haute
Elective Type Category: PD - Professional Development
Primary Contact for Adds/Drops:
Heather LeBrun (heather.lebrun@indstate.edu)93ZP710 - LEADERSHIP IN MEDICINE | Share Page
Description:
The curricula of most US medical schools provide little or no opportunity for medical students to study leadership. Physicians are trained to view medicine in terms of the physician-patient relationship, yet many of the greatest opportunities to treat disease and promote health lie in the organizational and social contexts of healthcare. The future of medicine and the patients we serve depends on cultivating responsible and effective physician leaders. This course introduces medical students to the key traits and skills of effective leaders and provides them an opportunity to study these broader contexts of healthcare. To gain a basic understanding of the traits and skills of leaders, students will read an eclectic range of texts including imaginative literature, biography, history, and business. We will discuss each of these readings and review student progress on the course project in class meetings. Every student also contributes to a class project. The course meets for an average of four hours per day.Course Director: Richard Gunderman, M.D., Ph.D.
Campus: Indianapolis
Location: Riley Hospital for Children at IU Health (Indianapolis)
Elective Type Category: PD - Professional Development
Primary Contact for Adds/Drops:
Dr. Richard Gunderman (rbgunder@iupui.edu )93ZI810 - LGBTQ+ COMMUNITY ENGAGEMENT | Share Page
Description:
s research elective is dedicated to exploring healthcare interventions, healthcare practices, and community-based efforts directly or indirectly impacting LGBTQ+ patients and communities. More specifically, learners in collaboration with the course director will select a community agency and educational project that can be tailored to meet the individual learner's objectives. Projects may include working with nonprofit organizations such as OutCare Health, the Damien Center, Brothers United, and Indiana Youth Group (IYG).
Course Director: Matthew Holley, Ph.D.
Campus: Indianapolis
Elective Type Category: PD - Professional Development
Primary Contact for Adds/Drops:
Matthew Holley (maholley@iu.edu)93ZI700 - M.D./Ph.D. THESIS ELECTIVE | Share Page
Description:
This elective is for those M.D./Ph.D. students who need extra time (1-3 months) prior to beginning or during third year clinical rotations to complete research/thesis writing work for their Ph.D. Up to three months of elective may be taken (approximately mid-April through mid-September) as delineated by the third year clerkship schedule (2 weeks in April and 4 weeks in May). The research advisor will serve as the Course Director and will be responsible for monitoring the student's progress and assigning a grade for each elective unit/month.
Course Director: Brittney-Shae Herbert, Ph.D.
Campus: Indianapolis
Location: IUSM - all campuses
Elective Type Category: AS - Advanced Science Research
Primary Contact for Adds/Drops:
Brittney-Shae Herbert (brherber@iu.edu)93ZP700 - MEDICAL ETHICS & PROFESSIONALISM | Share Page
Description:
Students will be assigned readings in important current topics and discuss these in seminars with faculty. They will also participate in Ethics consultations and will be expected to complete a research project in Ethics or Professionalism during the month.
Course Director: Margaret Gaffney, M.D.
Campus: Indianapolis
Location: Indiana Center for Bioethics (Indianapolis)
Elective Type Category: PD - Professional Development
Primary Contact for Adds/Drops:
Margaret Gaffney, M.D. (mgaffney@iu.edu)93ZM720 - MEDICAL INFORMATICS | Share Page
Description:
This course will expose students to medical informatics as a unique discipline. It will reinforce fundamental concepts related to medical informatics and medical technologies. Students will be required to attend regularly scheduled informatics sessions with faculty and fellows; complete four informatics modules; and additional work as arranged by the course coordinator.Course Director: John Finnell, M.D.
Campus: Indianapolis
Location: Regenstrief Institute (Indianapolis)
Elective Type Category: PD - Professional Development
Primary Contact for Adds/Drops:
J.T. Finnell (jfinnell@regenstrief.org)53ZI800 - MEDICAL STUDENTS AS TEACHERS: DEVELOPMENT & FACILITATION OF TRANSITIONS 2 FOR PHASE 2 | Share Page
Description:
This elective will give the opportunity to fourth year students to plan and facilitate a Transitions course for third year medical students in preparation for their clerkships.Course Director: Sarah Tieman, M.D.
Campus: Bloomington
Elective Type Category: PD - Professional Development
Primary Contact for Adds/Drops:
Dr. Sarah Tieman (satieman@iu.edu)82ZI800 - MEDICAL STUDENTS AS TEACHERS: DEVELOPMENT & FACILITATION OF TRANSITIONS 2 FOR PHASE 2 | Share Page
Description:
This elective will give the opportunity to fourth year students to plan and facilitate a Transitions course for third year medical students in preparation for their clerkships.
Course Director: Larry Ray Jones, M.D.
Campus: Evansville
Elective Type Category: PD - Professional Development
Primary Contact for Adds/Drops:
Dr. Larry Jones (joneslar)@iu.edu02ZI800 - MEDICAL STUDENTS AS TEACHERS: DEVELOPMENT & FACILITATION OF TRANSITIONS 2 FOR PHASE 2 | Share Page
Description:
This elective will give the opportunity to fourth year students to plan and facilitate a Transitions course for third year medical students in preparation for their clerkships.Course Director: Stanley Chakabva, M.D.
Campus: Fort Wayne
Elective Type Category: PD - Professional Development
Primary Contact for Adds/Drops:
Sharon Roberts (robeshar@iu.edu)93ZI800 - MEDICAL STUDENTS AS TEACHERS: DEVELOPMENT & FACILITATION OF TRANSITIONS 2 FOR PHASE 2 | Share Page
Description:
This elective will give the opportunity to fourth year students to plan and facilitate a Transitions course for third year medical students in preparation for their clerkships.Course Director: Scott Renshaw, M.D.
Campus: Indianapolis
Elective Type Category: PD - Professional Development
Primary Contact for Adds/Drops:
Dr. Scott Renshaw (serensha@iupui.edu)45ZI800 - MEDICAL STUDENTS AS TEACHERS: DEVELOPMENT & FACILITATION OF TRANSITIONS 2 FOR PHASE 2 | Share Page
Description:
This elective will give the opportunity to fourth year students to plan and facilitate a Transitions course for third year medical students in preparation for their clerkships.
Course Director: Tim Ames, M.D.
Campus: Northwest-Gary
Elective Type Category: PD - Professional Development
Primary Contact for Adds/Drops:
Dr. Tim Ames (jtames@iupui.edu)71ZI800 - MEDICAL STUDENTS AS TEACHERS: DEVELOPMENT & FACILITATION OF TRANSITIONS 2 FOR PHASE 2 | Share Page
Description:
This elective will give the opportunity to fourth year students to plan and facilitate a Transitions course for third year medical students in preparation for their clerkships.Course Director: Mark Fox, M.D., Ph.D., MPH
Campus: South Bend
Elective Type Category: PD - Professional Development
Primary Contact for Adds/Drops:
Dr. Mark Fox (markfox@iu.edu84ZI800 - MEDICAL STUDENTS AS TEACHERS: DEVELOPMENT & FACILITATION OF TRANSITIONS 2 FOR PHASE 2 | Share Page
Description:
This elective will give the opportunity to fourth year students to plan and facilitate a Transitions course for third year medical students in preparation for their clerkships.Course Director: Gary Ulrich, D.O.
Campus: Terre Haute
Elective Type Category: PD - Professional Development
Primary Contact for Adds/Drops:
Dr. Gary Ulrich (gulrich@iu.edu79ZI800 - MEDICAL STUDENTS AS TEACHERS: DEVELOPMENT & FACILITATION OF TRANSITIONS 2 FOR PHASE 2 | Share Page
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This elective will give the opportunity to fourth year students to plan and facilitate a Transitions course for third year medical students in preparation for their clerkships.Course Director: Esteban Ramirez, D.O.
Campus: West Lafayette
Elective Type Category: PD - Professional Development
Primary Contact for Adds/Drops:
Donna Fulkerson (drf@purdue.edu)49ZI704 - MEDICAL TOXICOLOGY | Share Page
Description:
On the Medical Toxicology rotation, students will serve as a member of the toxicology team providing consultation services on poisoned patients at Methodist, Eskenazi, IU, and Riley. Students will participate in daily teaching rounds, Poison Center case reviews, weekly rotating student/resident presentations (article reviews, critically appraised topics, interesting cases) and formal didactics taught by faculty or toxicology fellows.
Course Director: Jennifer Acciani, M.D.
Campus: Indianapolis
Location: Indiana Poison Center (Indianapolis)
Elective Type Category: AC- Advanced Clinical
Primary Contact for Adds/Drops:
Kris Powell (krmpowel@iu.edu) or Jennifer Acciani (jacciani@iu.edu)93ZH820 - MEDICINE IN KENYA | Share Page
Description:
IU School of Medicine, now with many other North American academic medical centers in a collaboration called AMPATH, has partnered with Moi University School of Medicine in Eldoret, Kenya since 1989. IU students participate in a variety of clinical activities in the medical wards of the Moi Teaching and Referral Hospital. Students spend one month of Internal Medicine and one month on Pediatrics; opportunities in General Surgery and OBGYN occasionally exist on a case-by-case basis. Students also have opportunity for involvement in community based activities at several urban and rural health centers. Students are encouraged to develop counterpart relationships with Kenyan medical students. Students are housed in Eldoret in the Moi University student hostel. Each student is responsible for his/her travel expenses and room and board. The elective is a two-month elective.
Course Director: Jennifer Baenziger, M.D.
Campus: Indianapolis
Location: Moi Teaching and Referral Hospital (Eldoret, Kenya)
Elective Type Category: AC- Advanced Clinical
Primary Contact for Adds/Drops:
Jenny Baenziger, MD (jbaenz@iu.edu) and Victoria Eder (vneder@iu.edu) -- both must be emailed93MK720 - MED-PEDS OUTPATIENT ELECTIVE | Share Page
Description:
This course is designed for 4th year students interested in a career in combined internal medicine-pediatrics, or Med-Peds. The rotation will consist of both clinical time (90%) and library time (10%). The clinical time will be 100% outpatient, focusing on the care of adult and pediatric patients in the outpatient arena. Much of the focus will be primary care related, including preventive medicine, well-child care, acute care, and counseling of patients. The attendings involved in this course will be exclusively trained in Med-Peds, in order to the student to gain appropriate comfort in learning what distinguishs Med-Peds as a unique specialty. The student will spend approximately 50% of the clinical time in a community health center, working with faculty who care primarily for underserved populations, and approximately 50% in a metropolitan clinic ( private practices ) located in Avon, IN, associated with IU Health at IU Health West. The library time will consist of choosing one particular patient seen by the student during the course, asking a clinical question based on that patient, and performing a literature search. The student will review appropriate literature, and then present a brief PowerPoint presentation on the appropriate clinical topic to various attendings and residents at a Med-Peds conference. Students will also be able to attend the weekly Med-Peds conference.Course Director: Michael J Wilson, M.D., Ph.D.
Campus: Indianapolis
Location: Eskenazi Health Center North Arlington (Indianapolis), Southwest Health Center (Indianapolis), IU Health Avon Outpatient Clinic (Avon), IU Health Physicians (Mooresville)
Elective Type Category: CP - Clinical Practice
Primary Contact for Adds/Drops:
Michael J. Wilson, MD, PhD (mwilson9@iuhealth.org)93ZI702 - MIND-BODY MEDICINE | Share Page
Description:
The Mind Body Medicine course aims to proactively attend to the mental and emotional health needs of medical students through exploration and teaching of self-awareness and mindfulness skills. By developing these skills, students will be better prepared to practice preventative self-care and self-awareness, ultimately improving overall well-being, stress management, and empathy. Students enrolled in this 11-week elective will meet for 2 hours 11 times during the semester. The sessions will be led by facilitators who have been trained by the Georgetown Mind Body Medicine founders. During each session, students will be introduced to a new mind-body skill and have the opportunity to practice and learn the theory behind its practice. (This elective will earn 2 credits, but these will not count towards graduation requirements).
Course Director: Emily Walvoord, M.D.
Campus: Indianapolis
Location: IUSM - Indianapolis
Elective Type Category: PD- Professional Development
Primary Contact for Adds/Drops:
Emily Laughlin (erlaughl@iu.edu)49ZO703 - MULTIDISCIPLINARY BREAST CANCER CLERKSHIP | Share Page
Description:
Medical students participating in this elective will be given a broad overview of the multidisciplinary management of patients with breast disease in the community setting. The course will offer students observational and hands on experience in the care of patients with breast disease while supervised by specialist from multiple medical practices in the areas of breast surgery, medical oncology, radiation oncology, plastic surgery, and genetics at the Coordinated Breast Care Services (CBCS) ambulatory breast center at IU Health North Hospital. Students will expand their knowledge related to the clinical decision making, and complex communication with patents who have breast cancer. Students will actively participate in problem solving and communication with breast patients as part of the multidisciplinary team.Course Director: Kandice Ludwig, M.D.
Campus: Indianapolis
Location: IU Health North Breast Care (Carmel)
Elective Type Category: AC- Advanced Clinical
Primary Contact for Adds/Drops:
Janet McClure (jmcclur4@iuhealth.org)93ZL720 - NARRATIVE MEDICINE | Share Page
Description:
The course aims to create a learning climate conducive to motivating and inspiring fourth-year students to read specific pieces of literature and reflect on their meaning as it relates to them as physicians-in-training and to their patients -- past, present, and future. The course will be conducted as a graduate seminar with time for reading, writing, and reflection. This one-month elective will be offered yearly to MS IV students interested in an interdisciplinary-based approach to patient care, with focus on the humanities. Faculty from multiple disciplines, including Obstetrics-Gynecology, Internal Medicine, Hematology-Oncology, Bioethics, Liberal Arts and The Regenstrief Institute will participate. Students will meet three days/week for one month.Course Director: Emily Beckman, D.M.H.
Campus: Indianapolis
Location: Ruth Lilly Medical Library (Indianapolis)
Elective Type Category: PD - Professional Development
Primary Contact for Adds/Drops:
Emily Beckman (embeckma@iupui.edu)93ZI730 - PROBLEM BASED LEARNING COURSE FACILITATOR CASEWRAP-UP CASE DEVELOPMENT | Share Page
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This course is designed for students who are especially interested in academic medicine and developing Problem Based Learning (PBL) cases. Attendance and participation are required components of success in this course. Students are expected to 1. be PBL course facilitator, 2. provide a PBL case-wrap-up and 3. develop and make a through PBL case. The course uses a small group setting in which students can benefit from peer and facilitator feedback and support each other's learning. During Problem-Based Learning sessions (MSCI-X503; MSMS Course fall and spring semester; two days a week), students will work as PBL course facilitators, provide a PBL case wrap-up and develop a PBL case. Students will work either in a small group or individually to write an instruction-quality PBL case. Each case will be realistic and objective-driven. At the start of the course, students will be provided a course orientation and a timetable for submission of assignments and completion of various components of the case. Students will meet with the course director weekly to review the progress of the case. Evaluation of student performance will be by the course director and other faculty. Each student is expected be a PBL course facilitator during the month (class meets 2 days a week), provide a case wrap-up to the students and to make a significant contribution to the case development process and develop a PBL case that will be used for instruction of MSMS students in MSCI-X503. Course Goals: 1. To provide the student with an opportunity to acquire, utilize, and refine communication skills which will be helpful in their future career. 2. To facilitate the acquisition of skills and attitudes by the student related to lifelong learning as well as problem solving. 3. To provide the student with an opportunity to research in-depth one particular area of medicine, from the molecular level to the whole individual, with further studies into the demographics, cultural and socioeconomic impact of the disease, thus strengthening that area of knowledge in the student's chosen program. Course Goals: 1. To provide the student with an opportunity to acquire, utilize, and refine communication skills which will be helpful in their future career. 2. To facilitate the acquisition of skills and attitudes by the student related to lifelong learning as well as problem solving. 3. To provide the student with an opportunity to research in-depth one particular area of medicine, from the molecular level to the whole individual, with further studies into the demographics, cultural and socioeconomic impact of the disease, thus strengthening that area of knowledge in the student's chosen program.
Course Director: Steve Miller, Ph.D.
Campus: Indianapolis
Location: IUSM - Indianapolis
Elective Type Category: PD - Professional Development
Primary Contact for Adds/Drops:
Dr. Steven J Miller (sjmiller@iupui.edu)93ZI760 - QUIP: QUALITY IMPROVEMENT IN PRACTICE | Share Page
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This elective is designed to teach skill and knowledge to 4th Year Medical students in Quality Improvement and provide the opportunity to participate in a hands-on Quality Improvement Project. We define Quality Improvement (QI) as identified by the Institute for Healthcare Improvement (IHI) as reflecting on how we practice medicine and looking for ways to offer better outcomes, greater ease of use and lowering costs. To do this, we need clear improvement aims, ways to monitor the progress and above all, a willingness among clinicians to make changes when evidence is presented. Tools and methods exist to help clinicians work together to study practice issues and arrive at a best known and agreed upon method. This elective offers compelling reasons to embrace Quality Improvement in practice and in education. Students will spend three days/week in a clinical setting and two days/week in a classroom setting learning and applying (using web-based simulation) Quality Improvement principles.Course Director: Deanna Willis, M.D., M.B.A.
Campus: Indianapolis
Location: IUSM - Indianapolis
Elective Type Category: PD - Professional Development
Primary Contact for Adds/Drops:
Deanna Willis, MD, MBA (drwillis@iupui.edu)93YF710 - SPIRITUALITY IN MEDICINE | Share Page
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The Students will gain an exposure to the principles of spirituality and pastoral care in the medical setting by working with hospital chaplains, social workers, ethics committee, and nurses. Students will distinguish spirituality from religion and receive an introduction to addressing spiritual issues with patients of all faiths and backgrounds. Students will spend the majority of time with a hospital chaplain, shadowing him/her, discussing philosophies of spirituality and medicine with the Chaplain, rounding with the Chaplain, visiting patients when requested, comforting family members, and assisting with advanced directives discussion and paperwork. The student will also shadow the on call Chaplain for one 12 hour week-end shift.Course Director: Robyn Axel-Adams, M.Div., BCC
Campus: Indianapolis
Location: IU Health Methodist Hospital, IU Health University Hospital, Riley Hospital for Children at IU Health (Indianapolis)
Elective Type Category: PD - Professional Development
Primary Contact for Adds/Drops:
Robyn Axel-Adams (raxelada@iuhealth.org)18ZI701 - SPIRITUALITY IN MEDICINE | Share Page
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The student will gain an exposure to the principles of an integrative approach to spirituality and pastoral care in the medical setting by working with hospital chaplains, the interdisciplinary palliative care team, social workers, ethics committee, and clergy from the community. The student will distinguish spirituality from religion and receive an introduction to providing care to patients of all faiths and backgrounds. The student will spend the majority of their time with hospital chaplains. This will include: developing an integrative approach to spirituality and medicine with the chaplain, rounding with the chaplain in both inpatient and outpatient clinical areas, shadowing chaplains in patient and family spiritual care visits, shadowing family meetings arranged by the palliative care team, and engaging in regular interdisciplinary meetings of the palliative care team. The student is encouraged to identify one or more topics within spirituality for specific focus.
Course Director: Rev. James Hilleson , M.Div., Th.M.
Campus: Muncie
Location: IU Health Ball Memorial Hospital (Muncie)
Elective Type Category: PD - Professional Development
Primary Contact for Adds/Drops:
Elaine Wisner (ewisner@iuhealth.org )71ZI700 - STUDENT OUTREACH CLINIC SERVICE LEARNING ELECTIVE | Share Page
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This course is designed for students participating in the Navari Student Outreach Clinic at IU School of Medicine-South Bend. Students will engage in faculty-supervised medical service to the local community and learn principles of community-based medicine for the underserved. Students will regularly attend and also present a patient case at the Navari Student Outreach Clinic Grand Rounds seminar series. This elective will also provide a service learning opportunity where the students will engage in ongoing reflection of their NSOC experiences.Course Director: Tracy Vargo-Gogola, Ph.D.
Campus: South Bend
Location: Navari Student Outreach Clinic, Chapin Street Clinic, Memorial Health Outreach Clinic (South Bend), Maple City Clinic (Goshen),
Elective Type Category: CP - Clinical Practice
Primary Contact for Adds/Drops:
Stacey Jackson (sajacks@iu.edu)93SO701 - STUDENT OUTREACH CLINICS (INDIANAPOLIS): VOLUNTEER | Share Page
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The Indiana Student Led Clinics (ISLC) Volunteer Elective is a non-credit bearing, complete/incomplete elective for students participating in an IU School of Medicine student-led clinic. Students will engage in faculty-supervised medical service to the local community and learn principles of community-based medicine for the underserved.
Course Director: Javier Sevilla-Martir, M.D.
Campus: Indianapolis
Location: Department of Family Medicine (Indianapolis)
Elective Type Category: PD - Professional Development
Primary Contact for Adds/Drops:
Javier Sevilla-Martir (jsevilla@iupui.edu)84SO700 - STUDENT OUTREACH CLINICS (TERRE HAUTE): LEADERSHIP | Share Page
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The Indiana Student Led Clinics (ISLC) Leadership Elective is a non-credit bearing complete/incomplete elective for students selected as student board members for an IU School of Medicine student-led clinic. Students fulfilling these roles are expected to enroll in this elective for the duration of their term. Students are expected to fulfill all responsibilities for their positions as outlined by the ISLC Bylaws. Through these activities, students will learn core leadership skills, as well as principles of clinical administration and community-based medicine.Course Director: Taihung Duong, Ph.D.
Campus: Terre Haute
Location: Mollie R. Wheat Memorial Clinic, (Terre Haute)
Elective Type Category: PD - Professional Development
Primary Contact for Adds/Drops:
Heather LeBrun (heather.lebrun@indstate.edu)84SO701 - STUDENT OUTREACH CLINICS (TERRE HAUTE): VOLUNTEER | Share Page
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The Indiana Student Led Clinics (ISLC) Volunteer Elective is a non-credit bearing, complete/incomplete elective for students participating in an IU School of Medicine student-led clinic. Students will engage in faculty-supervised medical service to the local community and learn principles of community-based medicine for the underserved.Course Director: Robert Ehresman, M.D.
Campus: Terre Haute
Location: IUSM - Terre Haute
Elective Type Category: PD - Professional Development
Primary Contact for Adds/Drops:
Heather LeBrun (heather.lebrun@indstate.edu)53ZI701 - TEAM BASED LEARNING CASE DEVELOPMENT & ASSESSMENT | Share Page
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This course is designed for students who are especially interested in medical education, teaching methods (pedagogy), and academic medicine. Attendance and participation are required components for success in this course. Students are expected to make a tangible contribution to the case writing process by developing and assessing team-based learning modules, as well as investigating current literature on the subject. This course provides an academic context in which medical students take responsibility for their own learning (Self-Directed Learning). Students will investigate the application and academic success of team-based learning (TBL) as an element in undergraduate medical education. Students will also design, develop, and assess TBL modules for use in the teaching of medical students, including basic science and clinical content. At the beginning of the course, students will be provided a course orientation and a timetable for submission of assignments and completion of various components of the TBL cases. Students will meet with the course director at least once each week, usually by video (Zoom) conferencing to edit and review the progress of the TBL cases they are authoring. Evaluation of student performances will be by the course director, and, if appropriate, by a clinical faculty member chosen by the course director. Exceptionally well-written cases may be used for instruction of future students. The goals of this elective are: 1.To provide the student with an opportunity to acquire, utilize, and refine communication skills that will be helpful in their future career. 2. To facilitate the acquisition of skills and attitudes by the student related to lifelong learning. 3. To provide the student with an opportunity to research the application and success of TBL methodology in the undergraduate medical curriculum. 4. To develop skill in authoring and analyzing case studies for use as TBL modules.
Course Director: Dan Lodge-Rigal, M.D.
Campus: Bloomington
Location: Online and Jordan Hall (Bloomington)
Elective Type Category: PD - Professional Development
Primary Contact for Adds/Drops:
Dan Lodge-Rigal (rlodgeri@indiana.edu)02ZI701 - THE DOCTOR AS EDUCATOR | Share Page
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Working in an academic environment is one option besides private practice for medical school graduates. In this elective students will be introduced to the educational pedagogy for learning experiences and then apply them by participating in different teaching settings (i.e. clinical, lab, large group and small group settings) as well as designing curriculum (i.e. clinical skills, TBL, integrated cases, large group setting) to be taught by the student in the various settings. Students will utilize the educational framework, tools and strategies presented throughout the course in their class presentations and portfolio work. Students will demonstrate their skills and attitudes through communication, professionalism, self and peer assessment and life-long learning.
Course Director: Fen-Lei Chang, M.D., Ph.D.
Campus: Fort Wayne
Location: IUSM - Fort Wayne
Elective Type Category: PD - Professional Development
Primary Contact for Adds/Drops:
Sharon Roberts (robeshar@iupui.edu)93ZI820 - LGBTQ+ HEALTHCARE RESEARCH | Share Page
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This research elective is dedicated to exploring healthcare interventions, healthcare practices, and community-based efforts directly or indirectly impacting LGBTQ+ patients and/or providers. More specifically learners in collaboration with the course director will develop a research question and methods that can be tailored to meet the individual learner's objectives. Projects will be determined with a viable outcome such as conference presentation or article for publication. There will be one-on-one interaction with faculty throughout the elective.
Course Director: Matthew Holley, Ph.D.
Campus: Indianapolis
Elective Type Category: AS - Advanced Science Research
Primary Contact for Adds/Drops:
Matthew Holley (maholley@iu.edu)93ZI711 - INTERPROFESSIONAL COLLABORATIVE PRACTICE IN HIV PREVENTION AND CARE | Share Page
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This course is designed to provide learners with the foundational knowledge of HIV prevention and care by preparing them to work as a functional member of an interprofessional collaborative health care team. Learners will recognize that by joining an interprofessional health care team that they can improve outcomes relevant to HIV prevention and care. Additionally, learners will apply collaborative leadership practices and team effectiveness by working in cooperation with those who provide care, others who contribute to or support the delivery of prevention and health services, and most importantly, people living with HIV/AIDS.
Course Director: Matthew Holley, Ph.D.
Campus: Indianapolis
Elective Type Category: PD- Professional Development
Primary Contact for Adds/Drops:
Matthew Holley (maholley@iu.edu)02ZI702 - MEDICAL RESEARCH | Share Page
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The student will learn basic medical research principles, research ethics and evidence based medicine. The course director will pair the students with one or more faculty members and the student will assist the mentor with an ongoing research project based on student interest. Work may include all facets of medical research including data acquisition, data entry, telephone calls, screening for patients in ongoing research studies and statistical analysis. On occasion, students might be involved in manuscript preparation, oral presentation and/or poster design and be named as an author. In addition, students will be asked to attend and participate in departmental research meetings. Student must complete CITI, or have completed, training as part of this elective.
Course Director: Luna Wahab, M.D.
Campus: Fort Wayne
Elective Type Category: AS - Advanced Science Research
Primary Contact for Adds/Drops:
Sharon Roberts (robeshar@iu.edu)93ZI830 - ART-BASED WELLNESS | Share Page
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Students in the School of Medicine will gain exposure to arts-based wellness practices and how those practices can support reflection, growth, and processing of experiences as a medical student and caregiver. Students will engage in art-making activities, art-viewing activities and discussion, and written assignments. This course will also incorporate some art therapy experience as part of the elective. Students will interact with an Art Therapist and engage in dialogue about their work and connection to patient care.Students in the School of Medicine are often under intense amounts of stress throughout their time as students and as medical professionals. It is imperative that medical students develop ways to improve their knowledge and practice of wellness in order to aide themselves and their patients in managing stress in the future.Course Director: Antwione Haywood, Ph.D.
Campus: Indianapolis
Location: IUSM- Indianapolis; IUSM- Bloomington
Elective Type Category: PD- Professional Development
Primary Contact for Adds/Drops:
Lauren Daugherty (lataking@iu.edu)53ZI703 - MIND-BODY MEDICINE | Share Page
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The Mind Body Medicine course aims to pro-actively attend to the mental and emotional health needs of medical students through exploration and teaching of self-awareness and mindfulness skills. By developing these skills, students will be better prepared to practice preventative self-care and self-awareness, ultimately improving overall well-being, stress management, and empathy. Students enrolled in this 11-week elective will meet for 2 hours each week (time and day to be determined). The sessions will be led by Bloomington IUSM faculty who have been trained as facilitators by the Georgetown Mind Body Medicine founders. During each session, students will be introduced to a new mind-body skill and have the opportunity to practice and learn the theory behind its practice. (This elective will earn 2 credits, but these will not count towards graduation requirements).
Course Director: Dan Lodge-Rigal, M.D.
Campus: Bloomington
Location: IUSM - Bloomington
Elective Type Category: PD- Professional Development
Primary Contact for Adds/Drops:
Suzi Tolliver (stolliv@iu.edu)45ZI710 - MIND-BODY MEDICINE | Share Page
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The Mind Body Medicine course aims to proactively attend to the mental and emotional health needs of medical students through exploration and teaching of self-awareness and mindfulness skills. By developing these skills, students will be better prepared to practice preventative self-care and self-awareness, ultimately improving overall well-being, stress management, and empathy. (This elective will earn 2 credits, but these will not count towards graduation requirements).
Course Director: Amy Han, Ph.D.
Campus: Northwest-Gary
Location: IUSM - Northwest
Elective Type Category: PD- Professional Development
Primary Contact for Adds/Drops:
Amy Han (amyhan@iu.edu)84ZI801 - MIND-BODY MEDICINE | Share Page
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The Mind Body Medicine - Terre Haute course aims to proactively support the mental and emotional health needs of medical students through exploration and teaching of self-awareness and mindfulness skills. By developing these skills, students will be better prepared to practice preventative self-care and self-awareness, ultimately improving overall well-being, stress management, and empathy. Students enrolled in this 11-week elective will meet for 2 hours per week on either Friday afternoons or weekends. The sessions will be led by Drs. Margaret Moga and Gary Ulrich who have been trained as facilitators for this course. This course was developed by the Georgetown University School of Medicine, and is currently offered at medical schools throughout the U.S. During each session, students will be introduced to a new mind-body skill and have the opportunity to practice and learn the theory behind its practice. (This elective will earn 2 credits, but these will not count towards graduation requirements).
Course Director: Margaret Moga, Ph.D.
Campus: Terre Haute
Location: IUSM - Terre Haute
Elective Type Category: PD - Professional Development
Primary Contact for Adds/Drops:
Heather LeBrun (thelects@iu.edu)82ZI701 - MIND-BODY MEDICINE | Share Page
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The Mindful Physican course aims to proactively attend to the mental and emotional health needs of medical students through exploration and teaching of self-awareness and mindfulness skills. By developing these skills, students will be better prepared to practice preventative self-care and self-awareness, ultimately improving overall well-being, stress management, and empathy. Students enrolled in this elective will meet for 2 hours in the evening for 10 to 12 weeks. The sessions will be led by Drs. Kristin La Fortune and Michael Roscoe who have been trained as facilitators by the Georgetown Mind Body Medicine founders. During each session, students will be introduced to a new mind-body skill and have the opportunity to practice and learn the theory behind its practice. (This elective will earn 2 credits, but these will not count towards graduation requirements).
Course Director: Kristin La Fortune , M.D.
Campus: Evansville
Location: IUSM - Evansville
Elective Type Category: PD - Professional Development
Primary Contact for Adds/Drops:
Dr. Kristin La Fortune, MD (klafortu@iu.edu)93ZI705 - ADDRESSING BIASES AND MICROAGGRESSIONS IN MEDICAL EDUCATION | Share Page
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Much of clinical medical education is accomplished by utilizing patient cases to illustrate important points or teach students about clinical reasoning or medical knowledge. Over time it has become apparent that some of the cases could contain information about the patient that might be viewed as expressing the intrinsic bias of the case creator or actually serve as a microaggression toward the students utilizing the case in order to learn. Socioeconomic identities, including race, culture, ethnicity, gender and sexual orientation are recognized as important determinants of health, with significant effects on the medical care patients receive and patients’ health outcomes. Racial or cultural profiling and stereotyping of patients by providers can result in delay or missed diagnosis and contribute to poorer patient outcomes. Examples might be always having the patient be a woman when the case is dealing with hysteria or anxiety or always having the patient be a gay man when discussing HIV transmission. During this elective students will have a chance to review practice cases for intrinsic bias and microaggressions as well as to reformulate the case to mitigate the intrinsic bias and microaggressions and include evidence based information about healthcare disparities and structural and social determinants of health for each particular case scenario.
Course Director: Alvaro Tori, M.D.
Campus: Indianapolis
Location: Riley Hospital for Children at IU Health (Indianapolis)
Elective Type Category: PD - Professional Development
Primary Contact for Adds/Drops:
Dr. Tori (ajtori@iu.edu)93QM730 - MEDICAL GENETICS / BIOCHEMICAL GENETICS | Share Page
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Medical genetics is currently the most rapidly changing area in medicine making it imperative that clinicians be up to date in diagnostic and treatment of genetic and metabolic disorders. By taking this rotation, students will learn the latest developments and concepts regarding inborn errors of metabolism, birth defects, dysmorphic syndromes and other inherited disorders. To accomplish this, students will be involved in the evaluation, diagnosis, counseling and management of pediatric and adult patients. They will participate in Medical Genetics, Metabolism (Biochemical Genetics), Bone Dysplasia, Neurogenetics, Familial Cancer and Huntington Disease Clinics, and attended daily metabolic ward rounds, weekly preclinic conferences and weekly medical genetic ward rounds. The student will also learn how to obtain information on genetic and metabolic disorders from various web-based and subscription databases, and will become skilled in finding and conveying information on metabolic and genetic conditions to patients and their families. Students can also electively rotate through the molecular genetic and cytogenetic laboratories and prenatal diagnostic clinics.Course Director: David Weaver , M.S., M.D.
Campus: Indianapolis
Location: The Department of Medical and Molecular Genetics and IU Health University Hospital (Indianapolis)
Elective Type Category: CP - Clinical Practice
Primary Contact for Adds/Drops:
David D. Weaver, M.S., M.D. (dweaver@iu.edu)93QM720 - MEDICAL GENETICS RESEARCH | Share Page
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Students will participate in departmental research activities and may pursue specific problems in the areas of birth defects, cytogenetics, prenatal diagnosis, mental retardation, biochemical genetics, molecular genetics, population genetics, or clinical genetics. This elective is offered for the student who wants to gain experience in doing basic or clinical research. The student does not have to have previous experience and may wish to complete a previously started project. A project may be done with any Department of Medical and Molecular Genetic faculty member, either primary or secondary faculty. Before enrolling in this course, the student must discuss doing so with the course director and in most case have a project delineated.Course Director: David Weaver , M.D.
Campus: Indianapolis
Location: IU Health University Hospital, Department of Medical and Molecular Genetics, Indiana University School of Medicine (Indianapolis)
Elective Type Category: AS - Advanced Science Research
Primary Contact for Adds/Drops:
David D. Weaver, MD (dweaver@iu.edu)93QM990 - SPECIAL ELECTIVE IN MEDICAL AND MOLECULAR GENETICS | Share Page
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Please refer to the Electives Policies and Procedures (mse.medicine.iu.edu/student...) for more information on special electives. For special elective forms, see the "Student Elective Forms"" section (mse.medicine.iu.edu/student...)"Elective Type Category: SPECIAL ELECTIVE
49MI754 - ADULT CRITICAL CARE MEDICINE | Share Page
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The course will provide an introduction to the care of the critically ill adult in one of the nations largest ICUs with emphasis on multidisciplinary care. The student will be an active member of an ICU team working directly with the staff medical intensivist and resident or fellow. Teaching rounds thoroughly cover current concepts of: airway management and mechanical ventilation; hemodynamic monitoring; enteral and parenteral nutrition; management of shock; fluid and electrolyte therapy. The student will participate in multidisciplinary rounds drawing on the expertise of clinical pharmacists, dietitians, social workers and care managers and emphasizing the importance of communication in implementing care plans. The student will be encouraged to enter computer orders on rounds and assume an active role in communicating with bedside nurses, patients and family members. The student will gain an awareness of cost containment issues and the medical, legal, and ethical dilemmas of critical care. A core curriculum for senior students will provide the basis for teaching on ICU rounds, clinical conferences, and didactic lectures.
Course Director: Robert Weller, M.D.
Campus: Indianapolis
Location: IU Health Methodist Hospital (Indianapolis)
Elective Type Category: AC - Advanced Clinical
Primary Contact for Adds/Drops:
Denise Monday (Dmonday@iuhealth.org)93MI760 - ADVANCED PHYSICAL DIAGNOSIS | Share Page
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Diagnostic testing begins with a thorough, yet hypothesis-driven history (1st line of testing) and physical examination (2nd line of testing). When utilized thoughtfully in conjunction with a good history, the physical exam enables the physician to effectively complete his/her bedside diagnostic repertoire. These first two lines of bedside diagnostic testing can then, in turn, help inform/guide the physician to pursue additional testing (3rd line) in a more purposeful and well-reasoned manner. This course is designed to improve the quality of students' physical examination skills by way of (1) enhancing their ability to recognize, describe, and interpret physical exam findings and (2) developing their basic skills in interpretation of diagnostic test characteristics.
Course Director: T. Robert Vu, M.D.
Campus: Indianapolis
Location: Eskenazi Health Services, Roudebush VA Medical Center, and IU Health University Hospital (Indianapolis)
Elective Type Category: CP - Clinical Practice
Primary Contact for Adds/Drops:
T. Robert Vu, MD ( tvu@iu.edu)02MA721 - ALLERGY/PULMONOLOGY/IMMUNOLOGY | Share Page
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Medical students will learn allergy testing methods, including scratch testing, intradermal testing, and laboratory evaluation for allergic/immunologic disease. Students will evaluate and assist in treating patients, ranging from allergic rhinitis, asthma, hives, atopic dermatitis, COPD, chronic bronchitis and bronchiectasis. Immunology patients include primary immune deficiency and various autoimmune states such as sarcoidosis, rheumatoid arthritis and inflammatory bowel diseases.Course Director: William Smits, M.D.
Campus: Fort Wayne
Location: The Allergy and Asthma Center, P.C. (Fort Wayne)
Elective Type Category: CP - Clinical Practice
Primary Contact for Adds/Drops:
Sharon Roberts (robeshar@iupui.edu)49MX706 - AMBULATORY INTERNAL MEDICINE | Share Page
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Students will participate in caring for patients in an internal medicine primary care clinic with emphasis on evidence-based management of conditions commonly seen in an outpatient INTERNAL MEDICINE practice. The patient population is diverse in age and socioeconomic status with a broad mix of pathology in both acute and chronic illness. Students will see patients individually and in collaboration with resident physicians and full-time internal medicine faculty. They will be involved in the ongoing schedule of internal medicine conferences including ambulatory case conferences, noon conferences, and grand rounds. Optional experiences include participating in internal medicine's asthma clinic and/or observing our in-house warfarin clinics and diabetic education teaching sessions. The students may have the opportunity to assist in office procedures/skills including but not limited to ECG interpretation, joint aspirations and injections, skin biopsies, and microscopic interpretation of wet mounts. Students will be provided with a rotation syllabus and binder of articles pertinent to internal medicine ambulatory care. There are no weekend or call responsibilities associated with this elective.Course Director: Robert J. Fick, M.D.
Campus: Indianapolis
Location: St. Vincent Hospital, Joshua Max Primary Care Center (Indianapolis)
Elective Type Category: CP - Clinical Practice
Primary Contact for Adds/Drops:
Beth Dragoo (BVDRAGOO@ascension.org)49MA711 - ASTHMA, ALLERGY, IMMUNOLOGY | Share Page
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To obtain hands-on instructions (in the private practice setting) regarding the allergic and immunologic process, the various manifestations of this process, and treatment for these manifestations. The student will be expected to attend all office clinical sessions and function as a sub-intern in an office setting. No night call or weekend time is required.
Course Director: Tolly Epstein, M.D.
Campus: Indianapolis
Location: Allergy Partners of Central Indiana and Private Practice (Indianapolis)
Elective Type Category: CP - Clinical Practice
Primary Contact for Adds/Drops:
Dr. Tolly Epstein (teepstein@allergypartners.com)93MC730 - CARDIOLOGY | Share Page
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This rotation will provide students with the opportunity to investigate all aspects of clinical Cardiology and best practices. The student will be working with the attending Cardiologist seeing patients with Cardiovascular problems including chest pain, evaluation of cardiac arrhythmias, preoperative cardiac evaluation, post operative management, congestive heart failure, stress testing and electrocardiography.
Course Director: Omar Batal, M.D.
Campus: Indianapolis
Location: IU Health
Elective Type Category: CP - Clinical Practice
Primary Contact for Adds/Drops:
Jason Clifford (jcliffo1@iuhealth.org)53MC701 - CARDIOLOGY | Share Page
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The student will work closely with a cardiologist and gain a wide exposure to clinical cardiology. Emphasis will be placed on history taking, physical diagnosis, diagnostic tests in cardiology and patient management. Rounds will be made daily with the cardiologist in the hospital, including the Coronary Care Unit and Progressive Care Units. The student will be encouraged and expected to participate in the decision making process regarding the care of the cardiology patient. Depending on the student's interest, ample opportunity can be given to gain exposure in the areas of echocardiography, electrocardiography, cardiac rehabilitation, cardiac catheterization, clinical electrophysiology, and clinical pharmacology. Students should expect to have call approximately one night per week and one weekend per month. There are no interns or residents in the hospital and, therefore, a significant amount of responsibility will be allowed for the senior student.Course Director: John Strobel, M.D.
Campus: Bloomington
Location: IU Health Bloomington Hospital (Bloomington)
Elective Type Category: AC- Advanced Clinical
Primary Contact for Adds/Drops:
Suzi Tolliver (stolliv@iu.edu)20MC701 - CARDIOLOGY | Share Page
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The student will be exposed to a wide variety of cardiac pathology in the community setting. The student will also get exposure to: 1. outpatient consultation and follow-up; 2. inpatient consultation; and 3. coronary and intensive care unit experience.
Course Director: Donald Westerhausen, M.D.
Campus: South Bend
Location: Elkhart General Hospital (Elkhart)
Elective Type Category: AC - Advanced Clinical
Primary Contact for Adds/Drops:
Stacey Jackson (sajacks@iu.edu)71MC703 - CARDIOLOGY | Share Page
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The student will participate in the evaluation and management of a wide variety of cardiology cases. Emphasis will be placed on the proper history, physical examination, laboratory, and x-ray studies of the cardiac patient. The student will follow patients in the Coronary Care Unit as well as in the general hospital. Students will see patients in a private cardiology consultation office. The student will be exposed to acute and chronic cardiac patients, cardiac catheterization, thrombolysis, PTCA, electrophysiologic studies, etc. The student will also get exposure to: 1. outpatient consultation and follow-up; 2. inpatient consultation; and 3. coronary and intensive care unit experience.Course Director: John Katsaropoulos, M.D.
Campus: South Bend
Location: Memorial Hospital of South Bend, St. Joseph Regional Medical Center (South Bend)
Elective Type Category: CP - Clinical Practice
Primary Contact for Adds/Drops:
Stacey Jackson (sajacks@iu.edu)82MC701 - CARDIOLOGY | Share Page
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The student will work closely with cardiologists and gain a wide exposure to clinical cardiology in both inpatient and outpatient settings. Emphasis will be placed on history taking, physical diagnosis, diagnostic tests in cardiology and patient management. Rounds will be made daily in the hospital. The student will be encouraged and expected to participate in the decision making process regarding the care of the cardiology patient. Opportunities may include exposure in the areas of pediatric cardiology, echocardiography, electrocardiography, cardiac rehabilitation, cardiac catheterization, clinical electrophysiology, and clinical pharmacology.
Course Director: Deepa Kumbar, M.D.
Campus: Evansville
Location: Evansville
Elective Type Category: AC- Advanced Clinical
Primary Contact for Adds/Drops:
Caren Whitehouse (whitca@iu.edu)71MC707 - CARDIOLOGY - CORONARY UNIT | Share Page
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The student will be exposed to the evaluation and management of patients with cardiovascular disease in a community based referral hospital. There is an active eight bed coronary care unit which is staffed by the course instructors. Active participation in the evaluation and management of patients with acute myocardial infarctions, unstable angina pectoris, and arrhythmias is emphasized in the unit. Bedside hemodynamic monitoring as well as appropriate electrophysiology studies are utilized. Daily instruction in the integration of electrocardiograms and the clinical usage of exercise stress testing will also be done by the instructors. Patients with non-coronary cardiovascular disease in the hospital setting will also be seen and managed. Exposure to the full complement of invasive and non-invasive cardiology techniques in the evaluation of patients is employed. Weekly lectures on cardiovascular disease are given by the instructors. There is an active eight bed coronary care unit which is staffed by the course instructors. Active participation in the evaluation and management of patients with acute myocardial infarctions, unstable angina pectoris, and arrhythmias is emphasized in the unit. Bedside hemodynamic monitoring as well as appropriate electrophysiology studies are utilized. Daily instruction in the integration of electrocardiograms and the clinical usage of exercise stress testing will also be done by the instructors. Patients with non-coronary cardiovascular disease in the hospital setting will also be seen and managed. Exposure to the full complement of invasive and non-invasive cardiology techniques in the evaluation of patients is employed. Weekly lectures on cardiovascular disease are given by the instructors.Course Director: Sachin Patel, M.D.
Campus: South Bend
Location: St. Joseph Regional Medical Center (Mishawaka)
Elective Type Category: CP - Clinical Practice
Primary Contact for Adds/Drops:
Stacey Jackson (sajacks@iu.edu)84MC723 - CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE | Share Page
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The student enrolled in this course will be exposed to all aspects of cardiovascular medicine clinically, on hospital rounds and office consultations, in addition to being familiar with the indication of invasive and non-invasive cardiac testing as special emphasis will be given for ECG interpretation. Students will also have Exposure to peripheral vascular disease and its management.Course Director: Nawar Mercho, M.D.
Campus: Terre Haute
Location: Union Hospital and Providence Medical Group (Terre Haute)
Elective Type Category: CP - Clinical Practice
Primary Contact for Adds/Drops:
Heather LeBrun (heather.lebrun@indstate.edu)49MC706 - CLINICAL CARDIOLOGY | Share Page
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This cardiology elective will involve active participation in an all-inclusive cardiac program providing wide exposure to aspects of clinical cardiology, both invasive and noninvasive. There is emphasis on electrocardiography interpretation with the students spending three hours per week with staff to review electrocardiograms. In addition, the students will spend 3 weeks in the hospital working closely with the cardiologist caring for hospitalized patients and two weeks rotating through the outpatient setting with exposure to outpatient physical examinations, treadmill testing, echocardiography testing and nuclear testing. The entire group of students will participate in cardiac fellow sessions to discuss various aspects of cardiology. In addition, attendance at general conference at St. Vincent Hospital is encouraged.Course Director: Janet Rippy, M.D.
Campus: Indianapolis
Location: St. Vincent Hospital, The Heart Center of Indiana, SVMG offices (Indianapolis)
Elective Type Category: CP - Clinical Practice
Primary Contact for Adds/Drops:
Beth Dragoo (BVDRAGOO@ascension.org)93MC700 - CLINICAL CARDIOLOGY | Share Page
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Students will round on the Cardiology Consult Service and in the Coronary Care Unit. In addition, students will read ECG's daily. This elective provides an intensive experience in patient management as well as the use and interpretation of specialized cardiovascular diagnostic tests such as ECG's, echocardiography, cardiac catheterization, stress testing and others.
Course Director: Pantila Bateman, M.D.
Campus: Indianapolis
Location: IU Health Methodist Hospital (Indianapolis)
Elective Type Category: AC - Advanced Clinical
Primary Contact for Adds/Drops:
Cardiology Admin (cardadmn@iu.edu)93MC770 - CLINICAL CARDIOLOGY | Share Page
Description:
Students will round on the Cardiology Consult Service and in the Coronary Care Unit. In addition, students will read ECG's daily. This elective provides an intensive experience in patient management from the perspective of the consultant as well as the use and interpretation of specialized diagnostic tests such as ECG's, echocardiography, cardiac catheterization, stress testing and others.
Course Director: Pantila Bateman, M.D.
Campus: Indianapolis
Location: Eskenazi Health Services (Indianapolis)
Elective Type Category: AC - Advanced Clinical
Primary Contact for Adds/Drops:
Cardiology Admin (cardadmn@iu.edu)45MC705 - CLINICAL CARDIOLOGY | Share Page
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The medical students will be assigned two new patients each day. The emphasis on one will be diagnostic and the other therapeutic. The history and physical will be reviewed by one of four board certified cardiologists. They will participate in the formulation of therapy and additional workup including treadmill stress testing, echocardiography, Holter monitoring, and cardiac catheterization. The students will follow their patient during the entire course of hospitalization. They will become familiar with a wide variety of cardiac problems both acute and chronic. They will see congenital and acquired heart disease of all kinds. They will get an extensive experience in electrocardiography and arrhythmia interpretation.
Course Director: Nazzal Obaid, M.D.
Campus: Northwest-Gary
Location: Community Healthcare System (Community Hospital; St. Catherine Hospital; St. Mary Medical Center - Gary Area)
Elective Type Category: AC- Advanced Clinical
Primary Contact for Adds/Drops:
Amy Han, PhD (amyhan@iu.edu)02MC701 - CLINICAL CARDIOLOGY | Share Page
Description:
Students will be actively involved in all aspects of cardiovascular diagnosis and treatment. Each student will be expected to perform histories and physical examinations on selected patients and participate in cardiac consultations and EKG interpretations. In addition, there will be exposure to other non-invasive and invasive modalities utilized in clinical cardiology. Students will actively participate in the management of patients with acute myocardial infarction and arrhythmias in the coronary care unit and patients on the wards. Emphasis will be on proper ordering and analysis of accumulated data to optimally manage patients in a variety of clinical settings.Course Director: Mark O'Shaughnessy, M.D.
Campus: Fort Wayne
Location: Parkview Hospital (Fort Wayne)
Elective Type Category: AC- Advanced Clinical
Primary Contact for Adds/Drops:
Sharon Roberts (robeshar@iupui.edu)02MC731 - CLINICAL CARDIOLOGY | Share Page
Description:
Based on the particular interest of the student, this course will provide experience in the diagnosis and management of cardiovascular diseases both in the inpatient and outpatient settings. Emphasis will be given to physical diagnosis, EKG interpretation, and a wide range of invasive and non-invasive diagnostic techniques. Students will also be given the opportunity to participate first-hand in the evaluation and treatment of patients in several of the rural satellite clinics in surrounding areas. Student will be assigned one preceptor, but will have the opportunity to work in all areas of cardiology.Course Director: Vijay Chilakamarri, M.D.
Campus: Fort Wayne
Location: Lutheran Medical Group (Fort Wayne)
Elective Type Category: AC- Advanced Clinical
Primary Contact for Adds/Drops:
Sharon Roberts (robeshar@iupui.edu)29MC701 - CLINICAL CARDIOLOGY IN THE SUBURBAN HOSPITAL | Share Page
Description:
The purpose of this elective is to introduce the student to a balanced approach to clinical cardiology outside of the large hospital environment. The importance of history taking in cardiovascular physical diagnosis will be stressed, as well as the selection of appropriate noninvasive cardiovascular diagnostic testing. Students will be involved in the interpretation of electrocardiograms, echocardiograms, cardiac Doppler, telemetry strips, various types of ambulatory monitors, as well as nuclear myocardial perfusion scanning. Students will be actively involved in the initial evaluation of patients at Riverview Hospital and will improve their presentation skills. Goal: The student should be well prepared for their residency with a good working knowledge of cardiology, cardiac pharmacology, and the appropriate use of cardiovascular testing and treatment modalities.
Course Director: Bruce Schilt, MD, FACC, FAHA, FCCP
Campus: Indianapolis
Location: Riverview Hospital, Hamilton Heart office (Noblesville)
Elective Type Category: CP - Clinical Practice
Primary Contact for Adds/Drops:
Michelle Worthman (mlworthm@stvincent.org )18ME711 - CLINICAL ENDOCRINOLOGY | Share Page
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The objective of this course is to give the advanced student experience in diagnosis and clinical management of patients with endocrine disorders. A motivated student will be exposed to a busy clinical endocrinology practice with community endocrinologists. The primary setting will be outpatient practice with occasional hospital consultative duties. A student will take histories and conduct physical examinations in the outpatient and inpatient setting. Students are exposed to the role of diabetes management, thyroid, adrenal, pituitary and other endocrine disorders, and common endocrine disorders seen in the hospital consultative service. The student shall participate with the internal medicine residency program and attend clinical conferences, grand rounds, and morning report.Course Director: J. Matthew Neal, M.D.
Campus: Muncie
Location: IU Health Ball Memorial Hospital (Muncie)
Elective Type Category: AC- Advanced Clinical
Primary Contact for Adds/Drops:
Elaine Wisner (ewisner@iuhealth.org)84ME700 - CLINICAL ENDOCRINOLOGY | Share Page
Description:
This course will give the advanced student experience in diagnosis and clinical management of patients with endocrine disorders. Students will participate in a busy clinical endocrinology practice with one-on-one interaction with faculty endocrinologists. The primary setting will be outpatient practice with occasional hospital consultative duties. Students will obtain histories and perform physical examinations with a focus on endocrine disorders in the outpatient and inpatient setting. Students will present patients to supervising faculty for discussion. Students will be exposed to the role of diabetes management, thyroid, adrenal, pituitary and other endocrine disorders, and common endocrine disorders seen in the hospital consultative service.Course Director: Mohammad Alam, M.D.
Campus: Terre Haute
Location: Providence/Union Hospital (Terre Haute)
Elective Type Category: CP - Clinical Practice
Primary Contact for Adds/Drops:
Heather LeBrun (heather.lebrun@indstate.edu)93ME700 - CLINICAL ENDOCRINOLOGY AND METABOLISM | Share Page
Description:
Students will provide academically oriented endocrine and/or metabolic consultations on inpatients, attend the endocrine and diabetic clinics, and participate in specialty conferences and rounds. Students will be expected to present two case summaries at our Wednesday morning clinical case conference and demonstrate problem-solving abilities. Emphasis on diabetes mellitus, thyroid disease, hypertension or other endocrine related disorders can be provided for interested students.
Course Director: Zeb Saeed, MBBS
Campus: Indianapolis
Location: IU Health University Hospital, Methodist Hospital, and Eskenazi Health Services (Indianapolis)
Elective Type Category: AC - Advanced Clinical
Primary Contact for Adds/Drops:
Zeb Saeed, MBBS (zisaeed@iupui.edu)02MG700 - CLINICAL GASTROENTEROLOGY | Share Page
Description:
This elective is a one-month rotation working with a gastroenterologist in an active tertiary care consultative private practice. The medical student will have the opportunity to participate in the inpatient and outpatient evaluation and management of patients. This rotation will allow the student to observe of a full range of gastrointestinal procedures including upper and lower endoscopy, ERCP, esophageal manometry, capsule endoscopy, breath testing, and endoscopic ultrasound. The student will be exposed to the use of electronic medical records and computerized order entry. The clinical cases will be supplemented by didactic readings and discussion, as well as self-directed readings, so that the student shall gain an appreciation of the basic issues covered by a working gastroenterologist. The student will be expected to report to clinical duties daily and observe a minimum of regular work hours. Evaluation of the student will be by direct observation by the preceptor.Course Director: Andrew Katz, M.D.
Campus: Fort Wayne
Location: Lutheran Medical Group, Lutheran Hospital (Fort Wayne)
Elective Type Category: CP - Clinical Practice
Primary Contact for Adds/Drops:
Sharon Roberts (robeshar@iupui.edu)18MD701 - CLINICAL INFECTIOUS DISEASE | Share Page
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The objective of this course is to give the advanced student experience in diagnosis and clinical management of patients with commonly encountered infectious disease disorders. Motivated students will be exposed to a busy clinical ID practice with community ID specialists. The primary setting will be approximately 30% outpatient practice with 70% hospital consultative duties. Student will take histories and conduct physical examinations in the outpatient and inpatient setting. Student will be exposed to the role of diagnosis and management of common infections, antibiotic management and selection, and clinical epidemiology. The student shall participate with the internal medicine residency program and attend clinical conferences, and grand rounds. Students will be measured regarding their ability to communicate and their ability to demonstrate knowledge about ID and the above metrics.
Course Director: Rosette Kfoury, M.D.
Campus: Muncie
Location: IU Health Ball Memorial Hospital (Muncie)
Elective Type Category: AC- Advanced Clinical
Primary Contact for Adds/Drops:
Elaine Wisner (ewisner@iuhealth.org)93MD700 - CLINICAL INFECTIOUS DISEASES | Share Page
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Students who take this elective will enhance their abilities to care for patients with infections or suspected infections. They accomplish this primarily by evaluating patients with infectious diseases at University, VA, and Eskenazi Hospitals. Students see patients at the request of other physicians because of known or suspected infectious diseases problems. They gather data by interviewing and examining the patient, reviewing the medical record, and consulting textbooks, medical literature, and other sources. They synthesize this data into a coherent presentation that culminates in the preparation of a list of the patient s infectious diseases problems with proposed diagnostic and therapeutic solutions to these problems. Students then oversee the execution of the proposed solutions by visiting the patients on a daily basis and providing ongoing advice to the referring physicians, all under the guidance of an infectious diseases physician. Students also participate in two special didactic sessions each week, directed by an infectious diseases physician, during which they discuss cases after reading pre-assigned selected materials. Students on this rotation may also attend at least one outpatient session during the rotation in a clinic that provides care for patients with HIV infections and sexually transmitted infections; outpatient clinics that students attend will be at University, VA, or Eskenazi Hospital. Each student attends a half-day session in the Bell Flower Clinic, the county s sexually transmitted diseases clinic. Hospital assignments are arranged by negotiation with other students and the course director on the first day of the elective. Students round an average of six days per week, depending upon the volume and acuity of patients.
Course Director: Cole B. Beeler, M.D.
Campus: Indianapolis
Location: IU Health University Hospital, Eskenazi Health Services, and Roudebush VA Medical Center (Indianapolis)
Elective Type Category: AC - Advanced Clinical
Primary Contact for Adds/Drops:
Cole B. Beeler, MD (cbeeler@iupui.edu)82MD701 - CLINICAL INFECTIOUS DISEASES | Share Page
Description:
The student will see a variety of infectious disease problems in a community hospital setting and office setting. They will review and apply microbiology to common clinical situations, as basis for understanding antibiotic selection. This elective may be taken in sequence or separately with other electives in the Evansville area.Course Director: Jose Salgado, M.D.
Campus: Evansville
Location: St. Vincent's Medical Center (Evansville)
Elective Type Category: CP - Clinical Practice
Primary Contact for Adds/Drops:
Caren Whitehouse (whitca@iu.edu)02MR701 - CLINICAL NEPHROLOGY | Share Page
Description:
This course will provide good experience of both acute and chronic renal failure and its evaluation and management. All facets of nephrology, including hypertension and renal stone disease are covered. Acute hemodialysis and peritoneal dialysis will be available. Rotation with staff in consultative nephrology and active student participation should provide excellent opportunity to gain experience in complex medical care. A research paper is negotiable. Students will spend 50% of their elective time with inpatient and 50% with outpatient care.Course Director: Irfan Munir, M.D.
Campus: Fort Wayne
Location: Nephrology Associates of Northern Indiana (Fort Wayne)
Elective Type Category: AC- Advanced Clinical
Primary Contact for Adds/Drops:
Sharon Roberts (robeshar@iupui.edu)71MR707 - CLINICAL NEPHROLOGY | Share Page
Description:
During this elective the student will have clinical experience in the management and diagnosis of patients' renal diseases, hypertension, fluid and electrolyte abnormalities and critical illnesses. An emphasis is placed on understanding patients with chronic illnesses by addressing their physical, psychological, and social problems. The emphasis of the rotation will be on taking care of in-hospital patients and seeing office patients, with enough education on dialysis to make the student comfortable during the rotation. Students are taught to interpret renal function tests, acid base abnormalities, and fluid and electrolyte abnormalities. Renal transplant follow-ups are performed during office visits. These experiences will be implemented through daily ward rounds, office visits and adhoc teaching.Course Director: Margaret Quate-Operacz, M.D.
Campus: South Bend
Location: Kidney Care of Michiana, LLC (South Bend)
Elective Type Category: CP - Clinical Practice
Primary Contact for Adds/Drops:
Stacey Jackson (sajacks@iu.edu)84MR700 - CLINICAL NEPHROLOGY-UAP CLINIC | Share Page
Description:
During this elective the student will have clinical experience in the management and diagnosis of patients' renal diseases, hypertension, fluid and electrolyte abnormalities and critical illnesses. An emphasis is placed on understanding patients with chronic illnesses by addressing their physical, psychological, and social problems. The emphasis of the rotation will be on taking care of in-hospital patients and seeing office patients, with enough education on dialysis to make the student comfortable during the rotation. Students are taught to interpret renal function tests, acid base abnormalities, and fluid and electrolyte abnormalities. Renal transplant follow-ups are performed during office visits. These experiences will be implemented through daily ward rounds, office visits and adhoc teaching.
Course Director: Manish Gera, M.D.
Campus: Terre Haute
Location: Union Hospital (Terre Haute)
Elective Type Category: CP - Clinical Practice
Primary Contact for Adds/Drops:
Heather LeBrun (heather.lebrun@indstate.edu)84MP700 - CLINICAL PULMONARY MEDICINE - UAP Clinic | Share Page
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Private practice of pulmonary medicine with hospital responsibilities. Goals are to become accomplished in the care of acute and chronic respiratory failure, interpretation of pulmonary function tests and blood gases and evaluation of chest x-rays. A fair amount of general internal medicine will be included.Course Director: Shashikuman Gowda, M.D.
Campus: Terre Haute
Location: UAP Clinic/Union Hospital (Terre Haute)
Elective Type Category: CP - Clinical Practice
Primary Contact for Adds/Drops:
Heather LeBrun (heather.lebrun@indstate.edu)93MR720 - CLINICAL NEPHROLOGY CONSULTATION SERVICE | Share Page
Description:
The objective of this course is to provide an intensive exposure to general nephrology consultations in an acute care hospital. The student will evaluate nephrology consultations covering a broad spectrum of general nephrology at Indiana University Hospital, Eskenazi Health, or Methodist Hospital. The student will evaluate patients with acute and chronic renal failure, glomerulonephritis, fluid and electrolyte disorders, hypertension and acid-base disorders. The student will be exposed to acute renal replacement therapies including hemodialysis, hemofiltration and peritoneal dialysis. The student will gain experience in the day-to-day management of acutely ill patients with complex medical problems. The student will serve as the primary contact for initial consultation and follow-up. Assignment to hospital will be at the discretion of the course director. This will be based on ensuring highest quality of education. Feedback will be given on both oral presentations and written notes. The clinical evaluation form will be used as the assessment tool.
Course Director: Kathleen Prag, M.D.
Campus: Indianapolis
Location: IU Health University Hospital, IU Health Methodist Hospital, Eskenazi Health Services (Indianapolis)
Elective Type Category: CP - Clinical Practice
Primary Contact for Adds/Drops:
Kathleen Prag, MD (kprag@iu.edu)93MJ700 - CLINICAL RHEUMATOLOGY | Share Page
Description:
Clinical experience in diagnosis and management of patients with arthritis and connective tissue disease including, e.g., systemic lupus erythematosus, rheumatoid arthritis, gout, arteritis, scleroderma and polymyositis. Participation in techniques of diagnostic arthrocentesis and synovial fluid analysis. Interpretation of radiologic and histologic material and standard clinical serologic tests (e.g., for antinuclear antibodies; rheumatoid factors, complement, dysproteinemias). Students will work-up selected patients with acute and chronic connective tissue disease and participate in outpatient clinics, optional inpatient rounds and clinical conferences. Students interested in rheumatic diseases of childhood may include pediatric rheumatology clinics as part of this rotation on a space available basis.
Course Director: Renee Moenning, M.D.
Campus: Indianapolis
Location: IU Health University Hospital, Roudebush VA Medical Center, Eskenazi Health Services, Riley Hospital for Children at IU Health Outpatient Clinic (Indianapolis)
Elective Type Category: CP - Clinical Practice
Primary Contact for Adds/Drops:
Linda Cucci (lcucci@iu.edu)18MI731 - CRITICAL CARE | Share Page
Description:
This rotation is based at a community teaching hospital and private practice office and will provide exposure to a broad range of patients and problems in pulmonary and critical care. Teaching will take place through daily work rounds in the hospital and office. Consultations will be provided for critically ill patients in the intensive and coronary care units in addition to patients on the wards. Commonly encountered syndromes include respiratory failure, shock, sepsis, organ failure, pleural effusions, pneumonia, and various chronic and acute lung diseases. Emphasis is placed on bedside imaging with focused critical care ultrasound to extend physical exam and allow better understanding of pathophysiology. Students will be given the opportunity to image pleural effusions, atelectasis, normal lung sliding, basic focused cardiac ultrasound including assessment of volume status, and studies for DVT and hydronephrosis.
Course Director: Daryl Gene Morrical, M.D., FACP, FCCP
Campus: Muncie
Location: IU Health Ball Memorial Hospital (Muncie)
Elective Type Category: AC- Advanced Clinical
Primary Contact for Adds/Drops:
Elaine Wisner (ewisner@iuhealth.org)53MR701 - CLINICAL NEPHROLOGY | Share Page
Description:
During this elective the student will have clinical experience in the management and diagnosis of patients' renal diseases, hypertension, fluid and electrolyte abnormalities and critical illnesses. An emphasis is placed on understanding patients with chronic illnesses by addressing their physical, psychological, and social problems. The emphasis of the rotation will be on taking care of in-hospital patients and seeing office patients, with enough education on dialysis to make the student comfortable during the rotation. Students are taught to interpret renal function tests, acid base abnormalities, and fluid and electrolyte abnormalities. Renal transplant follow-ups are performed during office visits. These experiences will be implemented through daily ward rounds, ICU rounds, office visits and adhoc teaching.
Course Director: Deepak Jasuja, M.D.
Campus: Bloomington
Location: Columbus Regional Health (940 N. Marr Rd, Suite B, Columbus, IN 47201)
Elective Type Category: CP- Clinical Practice
Primary Contact for Adds/Drops:
Suzi Tolliver (stolliv@iu.edu)02MI711 - CRITICAL CARE MEDICINE | Share Page
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The primary objective of this course is to provide the senior medical student with knowledge, skills, and attitudes in handling seriously ill patients, requiring care in the ICU/CCU units. The senior student should develop a basic understanding of the seriously ill patient, including the pathophysiology of disease, with its psycho-social implications. Assessment for admission, including preparation and transfer to the ICU/CCU units is an integral part of such a course.Course Director: Sanjay S. Jain, M.D.
Campus: Fort Wayne
Location: Lutheran Medical Group (Fort Wayne)
Elective Type Category: AC- Advanced Clinical
Primary Contact for Adds/Drops:
Sharon Roberts (robeshar@iupui.edu)82MI701 - INTERNAL MEDICINE ELECTIVE ACTING INTERNSHIP IN A COMMUNITY-BASED RESIDENCY | Share Page
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This course is designed to give 4th year students a unique experience in the practice of Hospitalist Medicine at a community hospital. Attendings are drawn from the residency hospitalist group at St. Vincent in Evansville and Good Samaritan in Vincennes. Students will work one-on-one with a member of the group and will learn to evaluate patients efficiently and formulate an appropriate evidence-based treatment plan for a broad range of medical problems. Students will expand their communication skills by interacting with patients and their families, consulting appropriate sub-specialty services, and by participating in multi-professional rounding with pharmacists, case managers, dieticians, and therapists. Participation in weekly teaching conferences, hospitalist Case Presentation, and attendance at grand rounds will be expected. The students will function at a sub-intern level which may include responsibilities of new admissions and communicating effectively with family and medical staff nurses, pharmacists, respiratory therapists, and consulting physicians. At the completion of the rotation, students will have developed the necessary skills to effectively manage a variety of medical conditions encountered in hospitalized patients.
Course Director: Robert Ficalora, M.D.
Campus: Evansville
Location: Evansville and Vincennes Indiana
Elective Type Category: AC- Advanced Clinical
Primary Contact for Adds/Drops:
Caren Whitehouse (whitca@iu.edu)93MC740 - ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY | Share Page
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This special elective is available for selected senior students who are interested in echocardiography and cardiac hemodynamics. This elective is a unique opportunity for the student to work directly with faculty members who have expertise in interpretation of cardiac non-invasive testing. The student will have the opportunity to interact with a new simulation self-learning computer program. It is hoped that students will obtain a better understanding of cardiac anatomy, physiology and disease processes through the elective.Course Director: Harvey Feigenbaum, M.D.
Campus: Indianapolis
Location: Krannert Institute of Cardiology (Indianapolis)
Elective Type Category: CP - Clinical Practice
Primary Contact for Adds/Drops:
Harvey Feigenbaum (hfeigenb@iu.edu)93ME710 - ENDOCRINE AND METABOLIC RESEARCH | Share Page
Description:
Students will have the opportunity to work closely with an Endocrinology faculty member who is actively engaged in basic or clinical research. Preparation should include a literature review, so that an area of potential interest can be identified. Students must make contact with Dr. Evans-Molina and the faculty member with whom he or she wishes to work 3 months in advance of the requested elective. This will allow the student and faculty member time to develop a research question that will be addressed during the elective. Electives longer than one month are encouraged. In the design and execution of their project, students will have an opportunity to examine some aspect of endocrinology in a rigorous fashion. Principles of experimental design and the interpretation of data will be stressed. Not all faculty are available each month. Contact the course director for faculty availability in any given month.Course Director: Carmella Evans-Molina, M.D., Ph.D.
Campus: Indianapolis
Location: IUSM - Indianapolis
Elective Type Category: AS - Advanced Science Research
Primary Contact for Adds/Drops:
Carmella Evans-Molina (cevansmo@iu.edu )93MG700 - GASTROENTEROLOGY | Share Page
Description:
This elective is designed to provide a concentrated exposure at a medical student level in clinical gastroenterology (GI) and hepatology, while building on core training in patient care and communication skills. Each student will act as a consultant on an inpatient care team under the daily supervision of a staff member and he/she will observe a number of GI procedures. Attendance of our regularly scheduled Division clinical conferences will enhance the learning experience. Clinical work will involve both inpatient and outpatient care. Students will be asked to explore a topic from the Choosing Wisely campaign, and they will present a clinical case in oral and written form. Opportunities to take part in an ongoing clinical or basic research project will be made available to those students who are interested in taking more than one unit.
Course Director: Christen Dilly, M.D., MEHP
Campus: Indianapolis
Location: Roudebush VA Medical Center, Eskenazi Health Services, IU Health University Hospital (Indianapolis)
Elective Type Category: AC- Advanced Clinical
Primary Contact for Adds/Drops:
Christen Dilly (cklochan@iu.edu)45MG706 - GASTROENTEROLOGY | Share Page
Description:
The gastroenterology service at Community Hospital consists of two board certified gastroenterologists with expertise in all facets of digestive care. The group maintains a busy outpatient practice as well as an inpatient consultation service. The medical student participating in this elective will be an integral part of patient care in both settings. He/she will perform history and physical examinations under supervision with immediate feedback on their strengths and weaknesses. The medical student will have exposure to a multitude of gastrointestinal illnesses, as well as procedures, which include upper endoscopy, colonoscopy, flexible sigmoidoscopy, liver biopsy, ERCP, endoscopic ultrasound and video capsule endoscopy. The student will work closely with the attending gastroenterologist.
Course Director: Gene Chang, M.D.
Campus: Northwest-Gary
Location: Community Hospital (Munster)
Elective Type Category: AC- Advanced Clinical
Primary Contact for Adds/Drops:
Amy Han, PhD (amyhan@iu.edu)53MG701 - GASTROENTEROLOGY | Share Page
Description:
There is a fairly heavy emphasis on endoscopy each morning. Office experience can be provided on this elective. On-call days and weekends will include some general internal medicine call, too.
Course Director: Prodyot Ghosh, M.D.
Campus: Bloomington
Location: IU Health Bloomington Hospital (Bloomington)
Elective Type Category: AC- Advanced Clinical
Primary Contact for Adds/Drops:
Suzi Tolliver (stolliv@iu.edu)71MG703 - GASTROENTEROLOGY | Share Page
Description:
The student will receive clinical experience in the diagnosis and management of patients with gastro-intestinal problems. He/she will make daily ward rounds with a gastroenterologist and will observe and participate in endoscopic procedures. In addition to obtaining knowledge in gastroenterology in the hospital setting, the student will be given the opportunity to see cases in the office as well. Upon completion of the elective, the student should be able to correlate clinical findings with the laboratory determinations and x-ray studies.
Course Director: John Mathis, M.D.
Campus: South Bend
Location: Memorial Hospital (South Bend)
Elective Type Category: AC - Advanced Clinical
Primary Contact for Adds/Drops:
Stacey Jackson (sajacks@iu.edu)49MX714 - GENERAL INTERNAL MEDICINE & DIABETES | Share Page
Description:
The experience is in an internal medicine office practice. There is heavy exposure to diabetes mellitus (all types), hyperlipidemias and hypertension. The natural history of illnesses and the longitudinal care of patients will be emphasized. The student will regularly see patients with multiple diagnoses and complex pharmacologic regimens. In addition to patient contact and teaching, the student will receive regular one-on-one didactic sessions and will regularly receive literature assignments. This senior elective is an expansion of the elective offered over the past 12 years. In addition to general internal medicine, there is heavy emphasis on hypertension, lipid disorders and diabetes mellitus. The student will receive practical exposure and individual instruction on all aspects of diabetes management including oral agents, all types of insulin and insulin pump therapy. There is also instruction on the management of diabetic complications including nephropathy, neuropathy, vasculopathy, foot care and ketoacidosis. Lipid disorders are reviewed in detail including pathophysiology, clinical manifestations and treatment. Recent and current literature is assigned for review and discussion. The student will assess patient with simple as well as complex medical problems usually requiring multifaceted decision making.Course Director: Fred Frick, M.D.
Campus: Indianapolis
Location: Private Office (Indianapolis)
Elective Type Category: CP - Clinical Practice
Primary Contact for Adds/Drops:
Denise Monday (DMonday@iuhealth.org)93MI930 - INPATIENT MEDICINE ELECTIVE | Share Page
Description:
This inpatient rotation offers students the opportunity to provide hands on care for patients admitted directly to one of the four adult teaching hospitals in downtown Indianapolis within the Department of Medicine. Patients comprise the entire socioeconomic spectrum in the Midwest and have a broad range of medical problems, such as congestive heart failure, diabetes mellitus, acute coronary syndromes, cardiac arrhythmias, syncope, malignant hypertension, GI bleeding, pneumonia, COPD, pulmonary emboli, sepsis, pyelonephritis, acute mental status change, TIA/stroke, acute and chronic renal failure. Depending on availability and personal interest, students would join a teaching team that provides either primary inpatient responsibilities or a consultative role in either general medicine or one of the subspecialities. Students at this level are expected to conduct their own independent clinical evaluations and present to their attending physician. Students will provide patient care in a multidisciplinary care model that may includes nurse, pharmacists, care managers, along with other physician learners (other medical students, residents, fellows).
Course Director: John Buckley, M.D.
Campus: Indianapolis
Location: Indianapolis Campus
Elective Type Category: CP- Clinical Practice
Primary Contact for Adds/Drops:
Bernadette Blaser (babills@iu.edu)49MI714 - GENERAL MEDICINE (SERVICE - INPATIENT) | Share Page
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This inpatient rotation offers students the opportunity to provide hands on care for patients admitted directly to the IUH Methodist Hospitalist and patients whose specialty medical or surgical care is complicated by comorbidities generally managed by Hospitalists. Patients comprise the entire socioeconomic spectrum in the Midwest and have a broad range of medical problems, such as congestive heart failure, diabetes mellitus, acute coronary syndromes, cardiac arrhythmias, syncope, malignant hypertension, GI bleeding, pneumonia, COPD, pulmonary emboli, sepsis, pyelonephritis, acute mental status change, TIA/stroke, acute and chronic renal failure. The preceptorial approach for teaching ensures direct, continuous interaction with faculty for each student. Students will provide patient care in a multidisciplinary care model that includes nurse, pharmacists, care managers, social workers, nutritionists, physical, occupational, speech and respiratory therapists, Geriatrics and Palliative Care. The experience will foster collegial relationships with physicians from other specialties and other caregivers in a nurturing, real world environment. The student may be assigned four to six patients to co-manage with the attending Hospitalist. An Internal Medicine resident and/or Transitional Year intern may be part of the team, and, if present, will augment the learning experience for the student. Students will b expected to attend, teaching conferences that include case presentations, journal clubs, EKG reading and chest conferences. At the completion of the rotation, a student should be able to logically approach patient evaluation, construct an evidence-based management plan and communicate that plan to patients and fellow caregivers. The overarching goal of this rotation is to learn the basics of inpatient medicine and to develop an understanding of how a busy hospitalist team functionsCourse Director: Allyson Thomas, M.D.
Campus: Indianapolis
Location: IU Health Methodist Hospital (Indianapolis)
Elective Type Category: CP - Clinical Practice
Primary Contact for Adds/Drops:
Denise Monday (Dmonday@iuhealth.org); Allyson Thomas (alwarren@iupui.edu)93MI830 - GERIATRIC MEDICINE | Share Page
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What do you need to know about older adults to be an intern This elective will give you experience in the health care of older adults that will be fundamental for adult medical and surgical residencies. You will select from a menu of clinical venues where you would like to focus your time during the rotation and will meet with the Course Director prior to the rotation to decide these areas of clinical emphasis. Options for clinical training venues include, for example, the Acute Care for Elders Service, House calls for Seniors, Extended Care Service and Center for Senior Health at Eskenazi Health Services, and Older Adult Clinic at the VA Medical Center. In these venues, in addition to working with the geriatrician, you will work with an interprofessional team to provide care to our older adult patients (particularly those who have a complicated medical history). You will see both "well" older adults and those who have functional and cognitive disabilities in these venues. During your rotation, you will practice alongside Department of Medicine residents who are completing a one-month required geriatrics rotation and will be supervised by geriatricians. In addition to the clinical experiences, you will attend an interactive conference series that covers core geriatrics clinical topics including, for example, delirium and drug prescribing in older adults. You will participate in identifying and presenting an evidence-based, systematic review of the literature on a geriatrics topic with the residents. There are no night call or weekend responsibilities for this elective.
Course Director: Glenda Westmoreland, M.D.
Campus: Indianapolis
Location: IU Health University Hospital, IU Health Methodist Hospital, Roudebush VA Medical Center, Eskenazi Health Services (Indianapolis)
Elective Type Category: CP - Clinical Practice
Primary Contact for Adds/Drops:
Glenda Westmoreland (gwestmor@iu.edu); Susan Duffy (spduffy@iu.edu)93MI890 - GERIATRICS | Share Page
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What do you need to know about older adults to be an intern This elective will give you experience in the health care of older adults that will be fundamental for adult medical and surgical residencies. You will round with a geriatrician daily on an Acute Care for Elders (ACE) Service at IU Health Methodist campus. The goal of the ACE Service is to prevent functional decline or iatrogenic complications in patients age 65 and older during their hospitalization. This rotation offers the opportunity to work alongside geriatricians toward that goal as well as geriatrics fellows, Department of Medicine residents who are completing a one-month required geriatrics rotation, and other professionals who provide care to older adults. Additionally, you will see patients in the outpatient setting particularly to provide outpatient consultation to older adults. Similar to the inpatient ACE consults, the outpatient consults focus on maintaining function and independence toward optimizing quality of life.Course Director: Glenda Westmoreland, M.D.
Campus: Indianapolis
Location: IU Health Methodist Hospital (Indianapolis)
Elective Type Category: CP - Clinical Practice
Primary Contact for Adds/Drops:
Glenda Westmoreland (gwestmor@iu.edu); Susan Duffy (spduffy@iu.edu)82MI830 - GERIATRICS | Share Page
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Medicine is frequently two dimensional with symptoms and diseases along one axis and tests and treatments along another axis. Geriatrics is more three-dimensional as one has to then extend another axis to incorporate functional and cognitive impairment and more complex decision-making regarding aggressiveness of care and trade-offs of many medical and surgical options. Medical teaching often includes the concept of Occam's Razor; however, geriatrics frequently requires the understanding of the opposing concept that many symptoms and problems are multifactorial by nature. Clinical success is usually achieved making small victories with multiple efforts as opposed to one solution. Sometimes geriatric care is provided in the context of a multidisciplinary team, and the physician needs to know how to work with the team. Sometimes the physician has to have basic skills related to the multiple disciplines including physical and occupational therapy, neurologic and cognitive evaluation and treatment, dietary and Pharmacy understanding.Course Director: Karl Sash, M.D.
Campus: Evansville
Location: Evansville
Elective Type Category: CP - Clinical Practice
Primary Contact for Adds/Drops:
Caren Whitehouse (whitca@iu.edu)53MH721 - HEMATOLOGY/MEDICAL ONCOLOGY ELECTIVE | Share Page
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The objective of this elective is to provide the 3rd and 4th year students with an opportunity to evaluate a wide diversity of diagnostic and therapeutic problems in the areas of hematology and medical oncology. Direct patient contact and care of the adult hematology/oncology patient will be emphasized with supervision. Emphasis will be placed upon the multi-disciplinary approach to the diagnosis and treatment of malignant diseases. Evaluation and management of benign hematologic conditions, as commonly seen by internists and family practitioners, will also be stressed. The main advantage of this elective is the one-on-one experience. The rotation will include time with the medical oncologists, inpatient and outpatient oncology nurses, infusion nurses to understand the basics of chemotherapy administration, the clinical trials team, laboratory technicians to understand the basics of hematology laboratory procedures, oncology pharmacists to develop a basic knowledge of the vast assay of chemotherapeutic agents and biological response modifiers, social workers, nutritionists, and the dedicated hospice/palliative care team. Time may also be arranged with radiation oncology, radiology, surgical sub-specialists, and pathology as desired and deemed appropriate by the student. The rotation will cover numerous topics in Hematology/Oncology. Particular insight will be gained into the clinical manifestations and proper management of anemia, leukopenia, thrombocytopenia, coagulation problems, myeloproliferative and myelodysplastic disorders, myeloma, acute and chronic leukemias, lymphomas, and various solid tumors. Topics will be presented relative to the patient population seen, but will also cover the most general topics in the fields of hematology and medical oncology. End-of-life issues will be explored as a necessary part of the concept of total care of the advanced stage patient , including hospice and palliative care issues. Available references will include the standard hematology and medical oncology textbooks, standard online resources, and pertinent medical literature.Course Director: Laura S. Lourdes, M.D.
Campus: Bloomington
Location: IU Health SIP
Elective Type Category: CP - Clinical Practice
Primary Contact for Adds/Drops:
Suzi Tolliver (stolliv@iu.edu)82MH721 - HEMATOLOGY/ONCOLOGY | Share Page
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The clinical aspects of hematology/oncology will be taught. The experience will include inpatient hospital rounds with the attending physician. There will be inpatient and outpatient consultations and follow-ups. Particular insight will be gained into the clinical manifestations and proper management of anemia, leukopenia, coagulation problems, myeloproliferative disorders, leukemia, lymphomas and solid tumors. The basic emphasis will be on adult hematology/oncology. There will be weekly multi-disciplinary tumor board approach to the diagnosis and treatment of malignant disease. The main advantage is the one-on-one experience. The rotation will cover over forty topics in Hematology/Oncology. Two topics will be covered daily. All of our staff are board certified and we have received many awards for our teaching expertise. Students, interns and residents under our tutelage have scored consistently better than 90% of the nation on board scores. Workbook and computer disc of all the topics covered will be provided. If references from students/residents are desired, they will be provided.Course Director: Mark Browning, M.D.
Campus: Evansville
Location: Oncology Hematology Associates of Southwest Indiana (Evansville)
Elective Type Category: AC- Advanced Clinical
Primary Contact for Adds/Drops:
Caren Whitehouse (whitca@iu.edu)93MH710 - HEMATOLOGY-ONCOLOGY | Share Page
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Clinical aspects of hematology or oncology will be taught. Typically, the student will be exposed to the diversity of patients within Hematology and Oncology in the outpatient setting. However, the student has the opportunity to do consultative Hematology-Oncology, Inpatient Hematology, or Inpatient Oncology. Experience in bone marrow transplantation will also be available if desired.Course Director: Naveen Manchanda, M.B., B.S.
Campus: Indianapolis
Location: IU Health University Hospital, IU Health Melvin & Bren Simon Cancer Center, Eskenazi Health Services, Spring Mill Clinic (Indianapolis)
Elective Type Category: CP - Clinical Practice
Primary Contact for Adds/Drops:
Naveen Manchanda (nmanchan@iu.edu )71MI709 - HOSPICE AND PALLIATIVE CARE | Share Page
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This elective will provide medical students with experience in the area of hospice and palliative care (while being supervised) at the Center for Hospice and Palliative Care. Students' learning experiences will include: ' Palliative care consults in an inpatient setting ' Hospital rounds with a multidisciplinary palliative care team which includes a social worker, chaplain, nurse and physician. ' Home visits to both hospice and non-hospice patients Responsibilities during the elective include providing palliative care consultation and making hospital rounds with a multidisciplinary palliative care team (social worker, chaplain, nurse, and physician). There will also be an opportunity to make home visits to both hospice and non-hospice patients. Students will learn about ethical and legal issues related to life-threatening illnesses as well as the importance of self-care and community engagement.Course Director: Gregory Gifford, M.D.
Campus: South Bend
Location: Center for Hospice Care (South Bend)
Elective Type Category: CP - Clinical Practice
Primary Contact for Adds/Drops:
Stacey Jackson (sajacks@iu.edu)46MI721 - HOSPITALIST ELECTIVE | Share Page
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This rotation will involve medical students seeing a wide variety of internal medicine patients on the acute floor. Students will work one-on-one with a member of the Hospitalist group. Patient care will be over ICU (seeing up to 2-3 patients daily), telemetry and medical outpatient wards, with the student. Pre-rounding will be expected.
Course Director: Vinay Tumuluri, M.D.
Campus: Northwest-Gary
Location: IU Health La Porte Hospital/ Hospitalist Department (La Porte)
Elective Type Category: CP - Clinical Practice
Primary Contact for Adds/Drops:
Amy Han, PhD (amyhan@iu.edu)79MP700 - ICU-PULMONOLOGY | Share Page
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The course will provide an introduction to the care of the critically ill adult with emphasis on the concept of titrated care. The student will be an active member of the ICU team and will be taught current concepts of: airway management and mechanical ventilation; hemodynamic pressure monitoring; enteral and parenteral nutrition; management of shock; management of multi-system trauma; fluid and electrolyte therapy. The student will gain an awareness of cost containment issues and the medical, legal, and ethical dilemmas of critical care. There will be one-on-one discussions about ventilators, hemodynamics, ARDS, SIRS, and complex medical and surgical care and general ICU medical management. There will be informal reading and presenting some assigned topics to discuss with staff to maximize learning.Course Director: Shahid Ahsan, M.D.
Campus: West Lafayette
Location: Franciscan St. Elizabeth Health - Lafayette East (Lafayette)
Elective Type Category: AC- Advanced Clinical
Primary Contact for Adds/Drops:
Donna Fulkerson (drf@purdue.edu) and Tami Hunt (tami.hunt@franciscanalliance.org)79MP720 - ICU-PULMONOLOGY | Share Page
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The course will provide an introduction to the care of the critically ill adult with emphasis on the concept of titrated care. The student will be an active member of the ICU team and will be taught current concepts of: airway management and mechanical ventilation; hemodynamic pressure monitoring; enteral and parenteral nutrition; management of shock; management of multi-system trauma; fluid and electrolyte therapy. The student will gain an awareness of cost containment issues and the medical, legal, and ethical dilemmas of critical care. There will be one-on-one discussions about ventilators, hemodynamics, ARDS, SIRS, and complex medical and surgical care and general ICU medical management. There will be informal reading and presenting some assigned topics to discuss with staff to maximize learning.Course Director: Tasbirul Islam, M.D.
Campus: West Lafayette
Location: IU Health Arnett
Elective Type Category: AC- Advanced Clinical
Primary Contact for Adds/Drops:
Donna Fulkerson (drf@purdue.edu)53MI754 - ADULT CRITICAL CARE MEDICINE | Share Page
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This Critical Care selective will place a 4th year student in a community hospital adult ICU as an active member of a multidisciplinary ICU team. Students will encounter a diverse patient population including medical, surgical and neurological patients from Monroe and surrounding counties. Students will be expected to participate in bedside patient care and develop a basic approach to the diagnosis and management of common ICU conditions. Additional opportunities for pulmonary consults and pulmonary office medicine may also be incorporated.
Course Director: Wesley Ratliff, M.D.
Campus: Bloomington
Location: IU Health Bloomington Hospital (Bloomington)
Elective Type Category: AC - Advanced Clinical
Primary Contact for Adds/Drops:
Suzi Tolliver (stolliv@iu.edu)02MD701 - INFECTIOUS DISEASE | Share Page
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Students taking this elective will gain experience in the diagnosis and clinical management of patients with infections or suspected infections. The primary mode of learning will be by seeing patients in both a busy tertiary-care community regional hospital and also in the outpatient ID clinic. Elective will be approximately 80% inpatient and 20% outpatient. Students will be functioning as a consultant, performing complete history and physical examination on the initial visit and subsequently following those patients on daily rounds, under the guidance of an infectious disease physician. They will gather available data, consult textbooks and literature as necessary, and prepare a list of infectious disease problems with expanded infectious differential diagnosis. Students will then provide proposed, evidence-based diagnostic and therapeutic solutions for each problem. Rounding in the hospital is multidisciplinary and will also include an infectious disease pharmacist and also pharmacy students. Students will also learn about the techniques and tests performed in the microbiology lab by rounding in the lab. In the outpatient clinic, students will be able to follow-up on hospitalized patients and also be exposed to HIV and Hepatitis C care. Schedule for students will be 7 days on and 7 days off, 12 hour days, to mirror the schedule of the infectious disease physicians. One-on-one faculty interaction and supervision. Two 10-15 minute presentations regarding infectious disease topics relevant to patient care.Course Director: Andre Melendez, M.D.
Campus: Fort Wayne
Location: Parkview Regional Medical Center (IUSM - Fort Wayne)
Elective Type Category: CP - Clinical Practice
Primary Contact for Adds/Drops:
Sharon Roberts (robeshar@iupui.edu)93MD710 - INFECTIOUS DISEASE RESEARCH | Share Page
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The student will participate in one of the current research programs in the Division of Infectious Disease. The project may be laboratory or clinically based. Students must meet with the faculty member with whom they will work to develop mutually acceptable goals and timing; this is best accomplished several months in advance of participating in the elective. With the faculty member, the student will plan and carry out participation in a project, ranging from performing pre-selected technical aspects of an ongoing project to planning and carrying out a semi-independent project that extends beyond the duration of the elective.
Course Director: Cole B. Beeler, M.D.
Campus: Indianapolis
Location: IU Health University Hospital (Indianapolis)
Elective Type Category: AS - Advanced Science Research
Primary Contact for Adds/Drops:
Cole B. Beeler (cbeeler@iupui.edu)45MH710 - HEMATOLOGY/ONCOLOGY | Share Page
Description:
Students will experience and evaluate a wide diversity of diagnostic and therapeutic problems in the areas of hematology and medical oncology. Direct patient contact and care of the adult hematology/oncology patient will be emphasized with supervision. Emphasis will be placed upon the multi-disciplinary approach to the diagnosis and treatment of malignant diseases. Evaluation and management of benign hematologic conditions, as commonly seen by internists and family practitioners, will also be stressed. The main advantage of this elective is the one-on-one experience. The rotation will include time with the medical oncologists, inpatient and outpatient oncology nurses, infusion nurses to understand the basics of chemotherapy administration, the clinical trials team, laboratory technicians to understand the basics of hematology laboratory procedures, oncology pharmacists to develop a basic knowledge of the vast assay of chemotherapeutic agents and biological response modifiers, social workers, nutritionists, and the dedicated hospice/palliative care team. Time may also be arranged with radiation oncology, radiology, surgical sub-specialists, and pathology as desired and deemed appropriate by the student. The rotation will cover numerous topics in Hematology/Oncology. Particular insight will be gained into the clinical manifestations and proper management of anemia, leukopenia, thrombocytopenia, coagulation problems, myeloproliferative and myelodysplastic disorders, myeloma, acute and chronic leukemias, lymphomas, and various solid tumors. Topics will be presented relative to the patient population seen, but will also cover the most general topics in the fields of hematology and medical oncology. End-of-life issues will be explored as a necessary part of the concept of total care of the advanced stage patient , including hospice and palliative care issues. Available references will include the standard hematology and medical oncology textbooks, standard online resources, and pertinent medical literature.
Course Director: Neel Shah, M.D.
Campus: Northwest-Gary
Location: Northwest Oncology, P.C. (Community Healthcare System)
Elective Type Category: AC- Advanced Clinical
Primary Contact for Adds/Drops:
Amy Han, PhD (amyhan@iu.edu)71MI707 - INTERNAL MEDICINE | Share Page
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During this rotation, the student will be responsible for the admission, management, and therapeutic planning of patients admitted to the internal medicine service. He/she will be expected to rotate admissions with first and second year Family Medicine Residents and participate in management and care at the first post-graduate year level. Particular emphasis will be placed on the diagnosis and management of common medicine problems. In addition to the above experiences, teaching conferences in selected medicine topics will be available throughout the rotation, as well as daily ward rounds with a family physician. Students will take calls with residents a few times during the month
Course Director: Michele N. Collins, M.D.
Campus: South Bend
Location: St. Joseph Regional Medical Center (Mishawaka)
Elective Type Category: AC - Advanced Clinical
Primary Contact for Adds/Drops:
Stacey Jackson (sajacks@iu.edu)93MC731 - CARDIOLOGY TWO-WEEK CLINICAL ELECTIVE | Share Page
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This course is designed to serve as a 2-week introduction to Cardiology. This elective is ideal for students that wish to gain more exposure to cardiology-related physical examination skills and the management of common cardiovascular diseases. This elective is flexible; students may contact the course director if they have a specific interest in the field, so that we may plan their clinical experience according to their needs. This 2-week elective is worth 2 elective credits. This elective may be paired with vacation or another 2-week (2 credit) elective, in a related or different field. Students who prefer a more in-depth learning experience or who are considering a career in Cardiology should select the traditional 4-week (4 credit) elective, 93MC730 Cardiology.
Course Director: Omar Batal, M.D.
Campus: Indianapolis
Location: IU Health West
Elective Type Category: CP- Clinical Practice
Primary Contact for Adds/Drops:
Jason Clifford (jcliffo1@iuhealth.org)18MH701 - INTERNAL MEDICINE -EMPHASIS ON HEMATOLOGY & ONCOLOGY | Share Page
Description:
The objective of this elective is to provide the student with an opportunity to evaluate a wide diversity of diagnostic and therapeutic problems in the areas of hematology-oncology. Direct patient contact will be emphasized. The student will participate in the evaluation and management of patients with multiple problems in the above areas. Emphasis will be placed upon the multi-disciplinary approach to the diagnosis and treatment of malignant diseases and the extern will have the opportunity to observe the functioning of the hematology/oncology outpatient clinic and the Ball Memorial Hospital Oncology Unit. The student will spend a significant period of time participating in the Ball Memorial Hospital intern-resident teaching program as well.
Course Director: Michael Williamson, M.D.
Campus: Muncie
Location: IU Health Ball Memorial Hospital (Muncie)
Elective Type Category: AC- Advanced Clinical
Primary Contact for Adds/Drops:
Elaine Wisner (ewisner@iuhealth.org)45MP700 - PULMONARY/CRITICAL CARE ELECTIVE | Share Page
Description:
The course will provide an introduction to the care of the critically ill patient with emphasis on the concept of titrated care. The student will be an active member of the ICU team and will be taught current concepts of: airway management and mechanical ventilation; hemodynamic pressure monitoring; enteral and parenteral nutrition; management of shock; management of multi-system trauma; fluid and electrolyte therapy. The student will gain an awareness of cost containment issues and the medical, legal, and ethical dilemmas of critical care. There will be one-on-one discussions about ventilators, hemodynamics, ARDS, SIRS, and complex medical and surgical care and general ICU medical management. There will be informal reading and presenting some assigned topics to discuss with staff to maximize learning.
Course Director: Bilal Safadi, M.D.
Campus: Northwest-Gary
Location: Methodist Hospital
Elective Type Category: AC- Advanced Clinical
Primary Contact for Adds/Drops:
Amy Han, PhD (amyhan@iu.edu)18ZI711 - INTRODUCTION TO CLINICAL RESEARCH | Share Page
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This elective is intended to promote research and evidence-based medicine education to medical students. The program provides on-line didactics, assigned readings and tests to insure that the students gain an understanding of basic clinical research principles, research ethics, and evidence-based medicine. In addition to lecture and reading requirements, students will assist the research coordinators at IUH BMH to recruit and enroll patients into clinical research studies. It represents a unique opportunity to allow medical students to directly participate in the performance of clinical research, while also providing them with an education on basic research methodology and research ethics. The goal of the Research Rotation is also to improve student education, promote quality of patient care, and stimulate students to become life-long active learners and scientific participants by enhancing their participation in clinical or basic science investigation and scholarly activities. During this elective, students are provided with protected time and a supportive environment for scientific investigation education and scholarship under the supervision of a chosen mentor. The setting will be primarily didactic sessions and independent work on a project of the student's choosing (with input from faculty mentor). Goals of this elective: ' To provide the student with a 'hands-on' experience in performing clinical research by actually participating in the conduct of that research ' To educate medical students on the basic concept and methodologies of clinical research studies ' To promote the students' knowledge of clinical research ethics ' To introduce and/or reinforce the basic principles of evidence based medicineCourse Director: J. Matthew Neal, M.D.
Campus: Muncie
Location: IU Health Ball Memorial Hospital (Muncie)
Elective Type Category: AS - Advanced Science Research
Primary Contact for Adds/Drops:
Elaine Wisner (ewisner@iuhealth.org)93MI850 - IU HEALTH UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL PALLIATIVE CARE | Share Page
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This rotation will provide students the opportunity to learn about consultative palliative care. Areas of learning focus are symptom management, communication skills, and advanced care planning. The students will learn to work within an interdisciplinary team. The students will be more comfortable caring for patient with serious and/or terminal illnesses.
Course Director: Amy Johnson, D.O.
Campus: Indianapolis
Location: IU Health
Elective Type Category: AC- Advanced Clinical
Primary Contact for Adds/Drops:
Amy Johnson, D.O. (aj94@iupui.edu; ajohnson14@iuhealth.org)46MI711 - IU HEALTH LA PORTE GASTROENTEROLOGY | Share Page
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The gastroenterology service at IU Health La Porte Hospital consists of three board certified gastroenterologists with expertise in all facets of digestive care. The team maintains a busy outpatient practice as well as an inpatient consultation service. The medical student participating in this elective will be an integral part of patient care in both settings. He/she will perform history and physical examinations under supervision with immediate feedback on their strengths and weaknesses. The medical student will have exposure to a multitude of gastrointestinal illnesses, as well as procedures, which include upper endoscopy, colonoscopy, flexible sigmoidoscopy, liver biopsy, ERCP, endoscopic ultrasound and video capsule endoscopy. The student will work closely with all three attending gastroenterologists.
Course Director: Seth Tatel, M.D.
Campus: Northwest-Gary
Location: IU Health La Porte Hospital (La Porte)
Elective Type Category: CP - Clinical Practice
Primary Contact for Adds/Drops:
Amy Han, PhD (amyhan@iu.edu)