Students spend one afternoon per week at the medical center.
The students are divided into small groups and are taught physical exam skills by an LIJ internists. After a few sessions of practice on each other, the students begin seeing in-patients. Each student is assigned to a patient on whom to take a history and perform a physical examination. The students then present the patient to the preceptor who goes over the findings with them. The goal of this course is to develop communication and physical exam skills.