MEL 8251: Acting Internship Family Medicine

Faculty and Staff at Bayfront Medical Center and Morton Plant Mease Health Care (Tampa)

Drs. Drew Keister, Julie Dostal, Robert Motley, Brian Stello, Susan Mathieu, Jeffrey Mathieu, Aswhini Kamath-Mulki, Timothy Daly, Arnold Goldberg, and Linda Clark (LVHN)

Objectives

1. Integrate the student into the hospital teaching service such that the student functions at the level of an intern, managing their own patients under the supervision of a senior resident
2. Strengthen the student’s ability to develop an initial assessment and plan for patients requiring hospitalization, to succinctly present the admission to the team, and to effectively manage the patient’s medical problems throughout the hospital admission
3. Educate the student regarding common medical problems requiring hospital admission, indications for common in-patient procedures, discharge planning, and legal/ethical/cost considerations

Responsibilities

The student is expected to function as a Family Medicine intern under the direct supervision of the senior resident and attending. This includes pre-rounding on their patients, writing SOAP notes, attending morning report and teaching rounds, writing orders, following up on labs/consults/imaging, and doing discharge planning. Overnight call is to be determined by the site of the AI.

Evaluation

• Fund of medical knowledge
• Quality of assessments, plans, and presentations
• Clinical decision-making skills
• Attitude, motivation, and rapport with patients and team members

Scheduling

Tampa

To determine availability of elective space at Morton Plant Family Medicine Residency, contact Lee Blomberg at (727) 467-2517. Housing may be available on a first-come, first-serve basis.

To reserve a space in this course at Bayfront Family Medicine Residency, students must contact Ellen James at (727) 893-6156.

Final arrangements concerning the course location/preceptor will be made by the Department of Family Medicine after the student is scheduled for the elective.

ONLY MPMHC IS AVAILABLE TO VISITING STUDENTS.

LVHN

Longitudinal AI - Any interested student MUST meet with Dr. Keister to plan the acting internship.  This must be done at least TWO MONTHS prior to the beginning of the academic year.  Requests for time away from the acting internship for vacation and away electives should be discussed prior to the academic year but MUST OCCUR AT LEAST 2 MONTHS PRIOR to the absence.  In some circumstances, students may be able to continue working in their continuity family medicine offices from MS3 year. Continuity in the longitudinal primary care office may be interrupted during away electives and vacations with three months' notice. The skills and values of "Turtle Craft," our relationship-centered approach to family medicine, will be taught.

Hospital AI - Any interested student MUST meet with Dr. Keister to plan the elective.  Ideally, this should be done prior to the start of the academic year, but MUST OCCUR AT LEAST 3 MONTHS PRIOR to the start of the elective. In addition to adult hospital care, the service can include newborn and child care, and nursing home care. Students will follow their own patients on the hospital service participating in treatment plans, aftercare plans and family systems plans.  They will also spend at least one week working on Family Medicine service night float. 

Office-based AI - No prior approval required.  Students will spend each day seeing patients and working closely with the LVHN Family Medicine residency program faculty members and residents. The experience will take place in one of the residency’s continuity care site offices.  Students will see patients, write prescriptions and document their care as if they are a Family Medicine intern.  The skills and values of "Turtle Craft," our relationship-centered approach to family medicine, will be taught.