Family Medicine Inpatient

Department of Family and Community Medicine

  • Course Information

    Course Number: RFCM603

    Prerequisites: Completion of the Phase 2 Internal Medicine or Family Medicine clerkship

    Length of Time: 2 or 4 weeks

    Phase Availability: Phase 2 and Phase 3

    Credit Type: Physician Assessed Patient Facing (PAPFE) or Open

    Call: No

  • Contact Information

    Program Director at UW Health Hospital: Aarohi Munshi, MD

    Program Director at FHN Memorial Hospital: Beth Kalnins, MD

    Coordinator/Scheduling: Allison King (aking75@uic.edu)

    Location: UW Health Hospital (1401 E State St., Rockford, IL 61104); FHN Memorial Hospital (1045 W Stephenson St, Freeport, IL 61032)

Narrative Description: This two- or four-week experience will give students the opportunity to shadow a family practice resident and supervising physician in the hospital setting.

Learning Objectives:

The student who successfully completes this rotation will be able to:

  1. Demonstrate understanding of the unique issues facing family practice physicians who care for patients in the hospital/nursing home setting.
  2. Provide medical care to hospitalized/nursing home patients in a supervised setting.
  3. Demonstrate understanding of the role of the hospitalist and coordination of patient care.
  4. Demonstrate understanding of hospital administration activities and responsibilities of the family practitioner with hospital privileges.
  5. Experience family practice in a residency/primary care setting.

Learning Activities:

  1. The student will keep a journal, summarizing their daily activities and their personal observations & thoughts about the experience.
  2. Shadow a family practice resident/attending physician in the hospital, rounding on patients and providing input into the management of their care.
  3. Attend organizational meetings of the hospital administration as possible.
  4. Evaluate two journal articles (four articles for a 4-week block) on topics related to Family Practice Inpatient Care. Following evidence-based medicine principles and documenting your search strategy, write a brief review using the Journal Article Review If clinic scheduling allows, one article review should be presented to available faculty, staff and residents.
  5. Experience family practice patient care responsibilities in all departments of the hospital (i.e., ER, OB, ICU, Medical floors, etc.).
  6. If available, shadow a physician at a nursing home, rounding on patients and providing input into the management of their care.

Method of Assessment:

  1. The journal article reviews will be reviewed by the supervising If a presentation was done, evaluations will be solicited from faculty, staff and residents in attendance.
  2. The supervising provider(s) will evaluate the student’s performance in the areas of professionalism, level of interest and clinical The comments will be incorporated in the student’s final evaluation.

Required Reading: None

General Scheduling: Students will spend their time at either the UW Health Hospital or FHN Memorial Hospital with the Medicine team. This is typically Monday-Friday. Times vary.

Additional Resources: None

Miscellaneous Information: None