Medicine Intensive Care Advanced Clinical Rotation (ACR)

4 units

The Medical Intensive Care Unit ACR is designed to introduce medical students to critical care medicine. The rotation will provide the opportunity to care for critically ill medicine patients presenting with a wide variety of diagnoses including shock, respiratory failure, metabolic derangements, and acute gastrointestinal hemorrhage, amongst others. Students will be expected to learn the basic pathophysiology and treatment approaches of these common MICU disease processes. The MICU ACR will take place in the 8300 and 8400 Medical Intensive Care Units, and the medical students will work on a team comprised of internal medicine residents, pulmonary and critical care fellows, and attending physicians. The rotation will consist of three weeks of days and one week of nights. While on days, the students on the MICU ACR will be expected to follow 3-4 ICU patients, present these patients on rounds, and develop management plans. While on nights, the students will join the residents and fellows in cross covering established patients and admitting new patients to present on rounds the next morning. The management of critically ill patients is an essential skill for an intern in a variety of medical specialties, and the pathology seen in the Medical ICU will allow for students to gain experience in this environment prior to starting their residency.