Department of Internal Medicine
Clerkships
Medicine II
| Clerkship Director: | Janet A. Jokela, MD, MPH |
| Carle Forum & Provena Covenant Medical Center | |
| 217.383.3211, 217.337.2373 | |
| jokela@illinois.edu |
Description
Medicine II is a 4-week long core clerkship that may be taken in either the third or fourth year of medical school. This clerkship gives students the opportunity to expand their exposure to various areas of internal medicine and solidify their internal medicine skills. Students who are considering a career in internal medicine, or those who anticipate doing an internal medicine prelim year before starting residency (i.e., in radiology, dermatology, or neurology) are urged to choose to do the fourth year subinternship as their medicine II experience. The Medicine II core clerkship requires, at minimum, satisfactory completion of the Medicine I core clerkship, and consists of the following tracks:
Clinical Medicine track: 2-4 weeks of general medicine
inpatient service at the Danville VA Hospital.
Please click here for details.
Geriatric & Palliative care track: 2 weeks of geriatric
& palliative care service at the Danville VA Hospital, in which
students become familiar with a variety of end-of-life care
issues, the therapeutic use of opiates, geriatric assessment,
the physiology of aging, and clinical geriatric care.
Please click here for details.
Adult Neurology track: 2-4 weeks of neurology clinic and
in-patient neurology consults, in which students will be
exposed to and become familiar with various neurologic
disorders and neurologic manifestations of systemic disease.
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Subspecialty track: 2-4 weeks of subspecialty experience
in cardiology, pulmonary, or gastroenterology
offered at multiple sites. For two weeks at a time, students
will be given responsibility for the care of a limited
number of subspecialty patients and work closely with a
supervising attending subspecialist.
Please click here for details.
Clinical Medicine Sub-internship track:
(available only for M4 students): 4 weeks of general medicine
inpatient
service at the Danville VA Hospital or with the hospitalist
team at Carle Foundation Hospital, in which students will
be given major responsibility for a limited number of general
medical patients under the direct supervision of a resident
and faculty attending. The number of patients will be
limited so as to allow the student to assume the total
care responsibilities. Students who are considering Internal Medicine
as a career path and students who plan to complete an Internal Medicine
preliminary year during their internship, are urged to choose
this track for their Medicine II experience.
Please click here for details of the VA track.
Please click here for details of the Carle Foundation Hospitalist track.
ICU Sub-internship track: (available only for M4 students
who have completed the surgical clerkship):
4 weeks of
experience in the Carle Foundation Hospital ICU,
in which students will be given significant responsibility under the
direct supervision of a senior resident and ICU attending staff.
Please click here for details.
Students may choose between these tracks provided they have
satisfactorily completed the Medicine I Core Clerkship
(and M4 students only may choose the subinternship track,
and only M4 students who have completed the surgical
clerkship may choose the ICU track). Please do not contact
the attendings directly regarding your choices:
contact the Medicine II Clerkship manager Toni Kerney
at tbkerney@illinois.edu or 326-2827 at least one month
prior to the beginning of the rotation regarding your
choice of tracks. Options are available subject to faculty
availability—for those tracks where student participation
is limited, assignments will be made on a first-come,
first-serve basis.
