The Department of Internal Medicine strives to provide our third year medical students with a broad exposure to the inpatients and outpatient practice of internal medicine. The practice of internal medicine is an in-depth study of the health matters affecting adult patients. This clerkship places emphasis on the acquisition of highly honed skills in medical history taking and physical examination. Students also create lists and develop plans to direct the investigation of patients' medical disorders. This clerkship allows all students to have outpatient experience in community preceptor sites as well as the ambulatory clinics of the Medical College of Ohio's Department of Internal Medicine.
Students also have intensive inpatient clinical rotations.
The Obstetrics and Gynecology clerkship is designed to prepare students to provide students an opportunity to master the knowledge of reproductive physiology, anatomy, management of pregnancy and the common gynecologic problems that affect women patients. The students are carefully preceptored in a variety of learning environments and are tutored in observing in the operating room. There are opportunities for both inpatient and outpatient experiences during this clerkship. A unique part of this clerkship is the regular professors' rounds that are held on a weekly basis which allow students to discuss patient management problems and basic science issues relating to women's health with the chairman of our Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology. The Pediatric Clerkship prepares students for the care of the unique problems that affect infants and children as well as adolescents.