Elective Type:
clinical |
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Title A/I Internship: Interventional Radiology |
Course Number RADU-4023 |
Duration/Weeks 4 |
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Prerequisites:
Successful completion of Year 3 Additional Requirements: Completion of RADU-4006 Interventional Radiology Elective |
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Responsible Faculty Director: Eric Walser, MD Other Faculty: Jason Ross, MD; Arsalan Saleem, MD; Alex Shestopalov, MD; Gunvir Gill, MD; & Arya Bagherpour, MD |
Location
to Report on First Day Lycia Champagne-Buckley, lcchampa@utmb.edu |
Periods
Offered 1-7, 9-13 excluding holiday period 8 |
Maximum
Enrollment 1 |
Goals |
To introduce the student to the interventional radiology procedures such as central venous catheter placement, imaging guided biopsies and drainages, imaging relevant to the procedures and patient care. |
Objectives |
1) Become familiar with indications/contraindications for various procedures in Interventional Radiology 2) Learn to review imaging studies and form a plan for image-guided interventions 3) Learn to evaluate and manage patients before and after procedures 4) Perform procedures under the supervision of IR faculty. |
Description of course activities |
The Interventional Radiology section of the Radiology Department at UTMB offers electives for medical students. This elective is clinically oriented. Inpatients are followed on the ward, and outpatients are followed by periodic catheter checks and outpatient visits. Inpatients are occasionally admitted to the Interventional Radiology service. The student actively participates with the rest of the Interventional Radiology team and becomes familiar with the procedures, the techniques, and care of the patient. |
Type of students who would benefit from the course |
The elective is for students who are considering a career in Interventional Radiology, but that is not a prerequisite. The elective is useful for students who plan on entering an Interventional Radiology residency or plan to enter a specialty which is procedurally oriented, such as ICU medicine, surgery, and the medicine subspecialties of cardiology and GI endoscopy. |
Clinical Activities (estimated schedule) | |||
Day of Week | AM | PM | |
Monday | 8:30 | 6:00 | |
Tuesday | 8:30 | 6:00 | |
Wednesday | 8:30 | 6:00 | |
Thursday | 8:30 | 6:00 | |
Friday | 8:30 | 6:00 | |
Saturday | |||
Sunday | |||
Average number of patients seen per week: 120 | |||
Call Schedule: None |
Research Activities (estimated schedule) | |
Activity | Hours per Week |
Faculty Contact-Time | |
Self-Directed Study | |
Data-Collection/Analysis | |
Other |
1. Clinical Observation | ||
A. | Where are students observed on this elective? | |
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B. | Frequency - How often are students observed clinically? | |
Periodically during the day (3-4 times) | ||
C. | Format - What method(s) are used to document the student's clinical performance? | |
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2. Oral Presentation | ||
A. | Audience - To whom does the student present? | |
Faculty and IR fellows | ||
B. | Frequency / Duration of Presentation(s)? | |
1-2 times a week informally in a 15-20 minute sessions at morning board rounds | ||
C. | Format - What guidelines are set for the student's presentation? | |
Informal discussion of selected topics | ||
D. | Assessment - Who assesses the student's presentation performance? | |
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E. | Method of content selection | |
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3. Written Assignment (H&P's, notes, papers, abstracts, etc.) | ||
A. | Frequency of written assignment(s)? | |
After every procedure the student participates and they may be asked to write brief operative notes or H&P for consults | ||
B. | Format - What guidelines are set for the student's written work? | |
Students may be asked to write HP on consult patients or post- operative notes. The faculty or fellows will review the notes and discuss with the students. | ||
C. | Length of written assignment(s)? | |
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D. | Are recent references required? No If yes, how are they selected? | |
E. | Method of content selection - e.g. student-selected, relate to cases, etc.? | |
Case related | ||
F. | Audience - Who assesses the student's written performance? | |
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4. Examination | ||
Format | ||
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5. Extra Course Activities | ||
What expectations do you have for the student to demonstrate participation in the elective (e.g. small group activities, seminars, thoughtful questions, providing resources, journal club, resident lecture attendance)? | ||
Participation in morning rounds, discussions before and after procedures. Students will round with fellows/residents and NP on patient care units. Students attend the same didactic lectures/multidisciplinary conferences that residents attend. |
6. Additional Costs | ||
Please list any additional costs and/or purchases (books, materials, movies to watch, etc.) that are required for this course. Include an estimated total cost. If there are no additional costs, please enter "None". | ||
None |
7. Other Modes of Evaluation | ||
Please explain below. | ||
Students are observed and evaluated during procedures, case discussions and patient interactions. |
8. If this course is an Acting Internship, please complete the following: | ||
A. | Objectives for the AI should relate directly to the Entrustable Professional Activities (EPAs).
Each AI should describe how the four key Year-4 EPAs that our school has identified as being Year-4 skills are
assessed. The Year-4 objectives are:
1. Entering and discussing orders/prescriptions.Specify how the student will be given formative feedback on their clinical skills. |
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Students will be given verbal and written feedback on clinical skills after procedures and consults. | ||
B. |
Year-4 students should demonstrate mastery of EPAs they developed in the clerkship year, including recommending and interpreting common diagnostic and screening tests, and performing general procedures of a physician. They should be able to demonstrate masterfully and independently skills they mastered in Years 2-3, including efficiently performing comprehensive admission-notes and succinct daily progress notes and perform accurate, concise, and hypothesis-driven clinical presentations, form clinical questions and retrieve evidence to advance patient care. They should be able to demonstrate basic understanding of and beginning mastery of collaborate as a member of the interprofessional team and identify system failures and contribute to a culture of safety improvement. List advanced clinical skills that a student will be assured an opportunity to practice. |
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Students will be able to perform lower risk procedures such as paracentesis, thoracentesis, venous line placement and become adequate in catheter and wire manipulation. | ||
C. |
How specifically will this AI build on developing skills from the clerkship year to prepare students for internship? |
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first assistant on OR cases in which faculty or fellows are scrubbed in. | ||
D. |
What opportunities will typically be available to all students who take this AI (procedures, required presentations, etc.)? What opportunities may be available based on patient load/presentation or student initiative (ie. Writing a case report)? |
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They will be responsible for rounding on certain patients and presenting in AM rounds. They will close wounds in OR and perform minor procedures such as paracentesis, fine needle aspirations and drain placements and tube exchanges. There are hospital limitations that preclude placing orders but will practice telling orders that need to be placed. | ||
E. |
An AI should have expectation of a minimum of 32 hours per week of clinical responsibilities. Duty hours should be capped at ACGME limits for an intern, thus up to 24 hours followed by 4 hours of activities related to patient safety, education, and handoff. Students cannot work more than 80 hours per week averaged over 4 weeks. They can only have 1 day off in a 7-day work week with 8 hours off between shifts. Clinical responsibilities will vary depending on specialty, but how is the student functioning with work commensurate to a PGY1 with an appropriate level of training? |
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familiarity and experience with minimally invasive procedures in IR. | ||
F. |
How is the student demonstrating drawing clinical conclusions and/or developing a management plan and documentation as an intern would do? |
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If deficiencies are identified a midpoint meeting will be called with the student to discuss ways to improve. | ||
G. |
How and by whom will midpoint feedback be provided to the student? How will you remediate deficiencies identified at midpoint? |
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There are 2-4 faculty, one of which is the main attending during each week. They can request clinic time with certain faculty from the chief fellow to gain face time with that faculty. | ||
H. |
Acting Internship students often seek letters of recommendation following their experience. How many different Faculty will work directly with the student and have knowledge of the student's abilities to detail in a written evaluation? Describe the degree of supervision and interaction with faculty vs. residents or other providers and how feedback will be obtained if more direct work is with residents or other providers. |
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