4th Year Medical Electives
Students serve as acting interns along with the family medicine patient care team on the family medicine hospital service at this 815-bed teaching hospital. Supervision will be by MAHEC family medicine residency faculty. Daily activities include rounds, conferences, patient work-ups, supervised procedures and other in-patient management. Students are included in the call schedule with the family practice residents on service (one Saturday).
Students will see Family Medicine continuity patients alongside MAHEC FM attendings and residents on our main Biltmore campus. Students will have the opportunity to see patients independently and then present the patient, including their plan, to the doctor seeing the patient. We encourage students to make a commitment to a plan of their own, documenting in the chart and truly practicing being an outpatient intern. Students on this rotation will have contact with a large number of faculty and residents and will experience practicing with integrated teams of behavioral medicine, pharmacy, and nutrition faculty. Didactics are comprised of morning conferences and Wednesday afternoon resident didactics including simulations.
During the two-week Asheville portion, students will see patients in the MAHEC Family Health Center as part of the residency program practice with mostly faculty and some upper level residents. Students will participate in morning learning conferences that include X-rays, dermatology, procedures and behavioral health. Students are required to attend weekly didactics. One half day is spent in the inpatient setting observing the family practice service.
During the two-week Hendersonville portion, students will see patients at MAHEC's Rural Family Medicine Residency Program in Hendersonville. Students work one-on-one with full-time faculty and residents caring for patients in the multiple residency clinics. Depending on season and interest, other activities include afternoons at the resident-run clinic for people experiencing homelessness, mornings at the procedure clinic, group visits and community outreach visits at migrant farmworker camps during the summer. Students will occasionally be able to round in the 200-bed hospital on mornings, following several patients and working with residents and faculty assigned to the hospital service. The rotation will include a didactics afternoon and may include two call nights with an upper level resident and faculty.
A four-week elective set in the MAHEC Hendersonville Rural Family Medicine Residency Program at the outpatient family health center with inpatient services at Pardee Hospital. Students round in the 200-bed hospital each morning, following several patients and working one-on-one with an upper level residents and faculty. Daily activities include rounds, conferences, patient work-ups, supervised procedures and other in-patient management. Students are included in the call schedule with the family medicine residents on service. As an AI you will work under the supervision of upper level family medicine residents under the guidance of faculty attendings. The AI rotation is also an opportunity for you to get to know our residency and our people and for us to get to know you.
This is a four-week rotation where students will spend time on our busy family-medicine-run hospital service, round in the newborn nursery, and see patients in the family medicine continuity clinic. Daily activities include rounds, conferences, patient work-ups, supervised procedures and other in-patient management. Students will work under the supervision of faculty attendings. Students will have an opportunity to identify the challenges in providing care in a rural community and with limited regional resources. The rotation is also an opportunity for you to get to know our residency and our people and for us to get to know you.
Questions? Please email us at studentservices@mahec.net.
