Many students also spend one month in outpatient clinics, rotating through general medicine and all the subspecialty clinics. The types of pathology students gain exposure to varies widely with the services they experience, however, every student will inevitably work with patients with heart disease, diabetes, asthma and the multiple disease states associated with smoking, alcoholism and obesity. Daily teaching rounds and textbook reading complete the student's experience. Students master a detailed neurologic examination through experiences in the inpatient and outpatient settings. Neurologic diseases such as multiple sclerosis, stroke, myasthenia gravis, migraine and diabetic neuropathy are all commonly encountered, in addition to brain tumors and many less common entities.
Daily teaching rounds accompany textbook reading.
Students assigned to different locations have a range of diverse experiences centered on providing a consistent core fund of knowledge. Several weeks are devoted to obstetrics, where students learn the prepartum care of both routine and complicated pregnancies. Students get hands-on experience in routine vaginal deliveries and Caesarean sections. They then follow the mothers until discharge to learn about postpartum issues. Students master the routine pelvic exam, learn to identify basic pathology and assist in gynecologic surgery.