Clerkships are normally four weeks in length but other periods may be accommodated. Students must attend all scheduled orthopaedic activities, including morning report, the comprehensive lecture series, symposia, grand rounds, and journal club. Students will learn proper patient assessment, including interpretation of diagnostic radiographs and treatment procedures, while under the close supervision of residents and faculty. This clerkship offers training in general anatomic pathology, general clinical pathology, a combined rotation, or for formulation and completion of a well-defined clinical or basic science research project in any field of pathology. Students are accepted at any level, and programs are adapted on the basis of interest and experience.
Students participate in numerous daily departmental didactic and case presentation conferences.
Rotations are ordinarily for four weeks, though longer or shorter rotations may be arranged on an individual basis. Through didactic sessions and hands-on experience, students will develop skills in assessment and interventional medicine in the areas of nutritional counseling, smoking cessation, exercise prescription, and substance abuse. Students will become familiar with general principles of clinical epidemiology, recommendations of the Task Force on Clinical Preventive Services, and the National Objectives for Health Promotion and Disease Prevention - 2000. The objectives are to give the student an opportunity to develop requisite skills to perform a diagnostic interview with mental status exam, to establish a differential diagnosis, and to select an appropriate biopsychosocial treatment. Under supervision, the student may be allowed to initiate treatment with selected patients.