LONGITUDINAL COURSE IN CLINICAL MEDICINE (LCCM): #ME725M.J.
Spring Semester: February 21 to April 10, 2012

Open to all Harvard MD-PhD Students and Medical Students Who Are Resuming Clerkships

Prerequisites: IN709M.Jb.

Course Description

This eight week course is designed to help students maintain their clinical skills while away from clinical medicine, and/or to refresh clinical skills after a hiatus following their introduction to clinical medicine courses or clinical clerkships. This course may be particularly useful for those students (M.D.-Ph.D. students among others) who are beginning their transition back to full-time clinical clerkships following a protracted period of non-clinical pursuits. This course is not intended for students who have taken off for a year or less.

Course Location: BWH Duncan Reid Conference Room
Enter through the hospital’s 75 Francis Street entrance. Take the main stair case located at the back right of the lobby one flight to the second floor. Turn left, at the top of the stair case, onto the second floor hallway, the Pike. Take your first right (exit 3) off the pike, proceed past the elevators. Take your first right, the Duncan Reid conference room will be at the end of this hallway, directly in front of you.

There are three aspects to this course:

1. A weekly plenary session at BWH (Tuesday, 4:00-5:30 p.m.) begins with a re-introduction to the clinical history and physical exam, and is followed in subsequent weeks by interactive case discussions presenting common clinical problems (e.g., fever, chest pain, abdominal pain, renal failure).

2. One morning per week, each student will participate in work rounds and Attending Rounds with a specific General Medical Service Team at BWH. These daily rounds expose the student to inpatient clinical management. Immediately following rounds, the students will be assigned a patient from that service to "work-up" for subsequent discussion with a clinical preceptor.

3.Within a day or so after participating in Attending Rounds, the students (usually in groups of two) meet with a clinical preceptor to present, examine and discuss the patients whom they have evaluated. Students are encouraged to take full advantage of the course and participate in all three aspects.

Evaluation

Based on: written histories, physical examinations, oral presentations, participation in case discussions, formulation of diagnostic and management plans.

Course Directors and Primary Contacts	Dr. James Michel   Dr. Amy Miller
James L. Michel, M.D., Ph.D. (Course Director) Amy L. Miller, M.D., Ph.D. (Associate Course Director)

Sign Up Instructions

1. Please e-mail the MD-PhD Program office at mdphd@hms.harvard.edu if you are interested in taking this course.
2. Please notify the HMS registrar should you want the 1 credit for the course.