Courses

This is a 4-week orthopaedic surgery rotation during which the senior student will serve as a PGY1 orthopaedic surgery resident. The student will function side-by-side with orthopaedic surgery residents and assume similar responsibilities under the supervision of senior orthopaedic surgery resident and attending physician. Senior students will be assigned to spend one week on any of four subspecialty rotations they choose.

To provide clinical experience in the care of critically ill infants and children. The senior student will function as an intern in the Pediatric Intensive Care Unit (PICU) to build up the experience required in the junior clerkship.

This is a four-week Pediatric Emergency Care rotation during which the senior student will serve as an acting intern in the Evaluation Center (EC) at USA Children's and Women's Hospital. The acting intern will function along side regularly assigned pediatric and Med/Peds interns and will have the same responsibility for the initial assessment of pediatric and adolescent patients presenting to the EC under the supervision of the attending physician and senior resident.

The student will be assigned to the pediatric inpatient service along with the pediatric residents. The student will be assigned patients in rotation with first year level pediatric residents. Direct supervision will be given by the senior resident. Instruction will be given by the attending faculty member.

This elective is designed to provide for further experience and responsibility in clinical psychiatric diagnostic evaluation and psychopharmacologic treatment of patients admitted to Baypointe Hospital as well as on the Mobile Infirmary Psychiatry Consult.

The student will serve as an acting intern on one of the general surgery services at USA Medical Center or Knollwood Park Hospital. He/she will function as an intern under the supervision of the surgical faculty.

This is a four week general medicine rotation during which the senior student will serve as an acting intern on one of four general medical ward services at the University of South Alabama Medical Center. The acting intern will function side by side with regularly assigned interns and assume similar responsibilities under the supervision of the ward resident and attending physician.

During this rotation the student will serve as an acting intern on the high- risk service. He/she will function side- by-side with regularly assigned interns and assume similar responsibilities under the supervision of the resident and attending physician.

The student will be integrated into the multidisciplinary critical care team which will be comprised of resident and attending physicians, nurses, nutritionalist and clinical pharmacologist. Teaching rounds are carried out on a daily basis and constitute the major framework of attending-based education. Small group conferences are also held weekly addressing salient aspects of critical care. Critical Care lectures will be given on a bi-weekly basis.

Acting internship experience. Call schedule is flexible. Emphasis is placed on resuscitation procedures and ICU care.