Additionally the office provides career counseling, mentoring and advising services for students interested in an Internal Medicine career.

Medical Student Program Courses

1^st & 2^nd year courses

• IDS 102AB: Major Organs System — A 13 week course covering the cardiovascular, pulmonary & renal systems. Includes lectures, small groups, labs, and simulator sessions.
• IDS 103: Metabolism & Nutrition — A 6-week course covering the GI system.
• IDS 106: Epilogue — Preparatory course for Step 1 of Medical Boards for 2^nd year medical students.

The Student Programs office also participates in the Foundations of Patient Care, Intersessions and offers a wide variety of electives including Narrative Medicine, Social Activism in Medicine, and Mentored End of Life Care.

• Medicine 110 — 8 week inpatient medicine offered at Moffitt/Long, SFGH and SFVAMC. Students also participate in the Standardized Patient Program on End of Life Care issues. The goals for Medicine 110 are:
  • Perform a complete admission history and physical examination
  • Select and interpret appropriate diagnostic tests
  • Develop an assessment/differential diagnosis, based on H & P, lab data
  • Write up each admission
  • Give a complete new admission oral presentation in 7 minutes max
  • Follow the patient daily throughout the hospital stay
    • Perform focused daily H and P, interpret relevant tests
    • Present the patient in SOAP format on daily rounds, with updated problem list
    • Participate in discharge planning
    • Communicate with patients and families about the hospital experience and their perspective on their care

  Medicine 110 Course Objectives

• Med 140.01: The medicine sub-internship (sub-I) is offered at Moffitt-Long, SFGH, and SFVAMC. All medical students are required to complete the 4-week medicine sub-I rotation in order to graduate. The goals for the sub-intern are:
  • Assume primary responsibility for patient, including new emphasis on communication, coordination of care, and information management
  • Develop comfort in being first-call for ward patients, including learning how to assess and manage common on-call
  • Develop efficiency and effectiveness in prioritizing tasks on multiple patients

Senior electives: 42 medicine electives are offered to 4th year medical students which include Cardiology, Pulmonary Medicine, Infectious Disease and GI.

Resources

Career Advising

UCSF students match very well in internal medicine, at the top programs in the country. Medicine career advisors and residency directors meet with students and help in their planning and application process. Names of career advisors can be found on i-rocket under Clinical Core, Beyond Medicine 110.