Medicine Elective Course Description
| Course Name: | Infectious Disease |
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| Course Number: | ME-423 |
| Elective Type: | B1 |
| Coordinator(s): |
Jennifer Daly, MD |
| Department: | Medicine |
| Sites Available: |
Combined sites at University Campus and Memorial Campus Use site code: UMME |
| Months Offered: | E1, M1-M10 |
| Number of Students / Month: | 3 |
| Prerequisites: | Completion of 3rd year Medicine clerkship |
| Elective Description: The primary experience for the student will be an inpatient-based clinical consultative one. The student will see hospitalized patients for whom infectious disease consultation has been requested by other physicians in the hospital. The student will learn principles of infectious disease and microbiology, as well as how the consultant influences and helps patient care. The generation of a judicious and cost effective work-up as well as the prudent use of antibiotics is stressed. In addition, the student will be exposed to outpatients in Travel Medicine, HIV, and General Infectious Diseases clinics. | |
| Note: This elective is a combined site location - at University Campus and Memorial Campus. Contact Kathy Scalley to sign up. | |
| Location: Combined sites of University Campus and Memorial Campus |
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| Website: http://www.umassmed.edu/medicine/ | |