Sub-Internship: Surgical Intensive Care Unit

Fourth year medical students are eligible to participate in the Surgical Intensive Care Unit elective at Boston Medical Center. This can be a one or two month elective which will be spent at the Menino Pavilion surgical intensive care unit. Students will be active members of the team and will participate in daily rounds and will be responsible for presenting in detail, all patients whom they have called on previously. He/she will defend the therapy initiated and propose a comprehensive treatment plan. Additionally, the student will participate in all procedures performed in the surgical intensive care unit. The Section on Critical Care offers daily teaching rounds as well as didactic lectures. It is hoped at the conclusion of this elective the student will have an appreciation of the problems and care of the critically ill patient.