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DESCRIPTION OF ELECTIVE CLINICAL ROTATIONS2009 Internal Medicine Curriculum > Elective Clinical Rotations |
| Residents avail themselves
of a myriad of opportunities at Cambridge Health Alliance, in the Greater
Boston area, and in international settings during their elective time.
Residents regularly rotate to the tertiary care Harvard hospitals for
inpatient or outpatient subspecialty consultation experiences in areas such
as infectious diseases, endocrinology, hematology-oncology, nephrology,
cardiology, gastroenterology, and pulmonary medicine. Residents also use
elective time to work on their scholarly projects.
Specially designed elective experiences within CHA include: Medical Subspecialty Consultation Elective: Residents may opt for 2 to 4 week immersion experiences in a number of medical specialties. Hospital Medicine Elective: Residents work apprentice-style with a hospital preceptor, evaluating and managing inpatients, performing procedures, completing a hospital quality improvement project. Health Advocacy and Activism Elective: Offers trainees the opportunity to interact with a vast array of health activists and learn from their experience. Residents and medical students participate in an experiential research project on a health advocacy topic of their choosing. Occupational and Environmental Health Elective: Basic principles of recognizing and preventing occupational health diseases are integrated into a series of didactics and clinical experiences. Residents participate in work site evaluations and projects in this elective. Resident-designed Electives: Resident may select a faculty mentor and participate in design of an elective to meet their educational/research needs. Recent examples include medical education, international health, behavioral medicine, acupuncture, and adolescent medicine. |