Program Coordinators: Gian Novaro, MD
Duration: 4 weeks
Availability: Year round
No. of Students: 1
Prerequisite
Completion of all core clerkships. Open to senior medical students.
Objectives
To further the student’s skill in obtaining a history, performing a physical examination and interpreting laboratory data pertaining to the cardiovascular system.
Description
Working closely with a staff cardiologist, each student actively participates in the evaluation of patients with a wide spectrum of cardiovascular diseases. Students work in the hospital service with no night or weekend call. Emphasis is placed on clinical cardiology, consultations, preoperative evaluations, and non-invasive diagnostic testing. Students develop basic skills in electrocardiography, stress testing, telemetry monitoring, echocardiography, and nuclear cardiology. Students also become acquainted with cardiac catheterization and percutaneous coronary intervention procedures and become acquainted with all aspects of a full service interventional cardiology laboratory. Referred patients with specific cardiovascular disorders are seen in detail to obtain the pertinent data needed for evaluation and development of a treatment plan.
Regular teaching conferences are conducted by students and the staff cardiologist assigned to the service for that month.
Evaluation
Evaluations will be distributed by the MSE department to the preceptor at the end of the rotation.
