The SMART curriculum is a simulation based curriculum used to personalize resident training at SIU's Emergency Medicine residency program.

Students will be evaluated at least weekly on clinical skills and professionalism using the On-the-Fly evaluation. All On-the-Fly evaluations are compiled by the clerkship to create a summative evaluation. Students must pass a clinical exam that includes two cases. One case includes interviewing a standardized patient, followed by a computerized clinical competency exam (CCX), which also includes a diagnosis justification (DxJ). The second case focuses on the student's ability to complete a mental status exam (MSE). The student views a recorded patient interview and then gets fifteen minutes

For more information, please contact: open, Neurology Clerkship Coordinator Email : cholmes@siumed.edu Neurology Clerkship Office: 217-545-5635 SIU School of Medicine Clerkship Faculty: Jayant Acharya, MD, Chairman Ahmed Abbas, MD, Clerkship Director Carolyn Holmes, MSN, RN-BC, Clerkship Nurse Educator Tom Ala, MD Hesham Allam, MD Jennifer Arnold, MD Murad Baba, MD Louis Graham, MD Faisal Ibrahim, MD Jeremy Kulacz, MD Sajjad Mueed, MD Akhil Shivaprasad, MD

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The Department of Psychiatry provides education and training in each year of the medical school curriculum, establishing the pre-requisite didactic and clinical knowledge as well as clinical skills for interested students to become successful candidates for psychiatric residency training. The medical school psychiatric curriculum also provides the clinical framework and exposure for students pursuing other fields of medicine to recognize the characteristic presenting signs and symptoms of primary mental disorders and to understand the clinical course and available treatments. The four-week

Students may receive an overall clerkship rating of: Satisfactory Unsatisfactory The Department of Medicine faculty determines these ratings by evaluating a student’s performance in each of two categories: Clinical Skills/Application of Medical Knowledge, and Professional Behavior. In each category, a student’s performance may be designated: Meets Expectations Does Not Meet Expectations Sources of information used for each category and percentage weights assigned in determining ratings are: CLINICAL SKILLS / APPLICATION OF MEDICAL KNOWLEDGE WEIGHT 1. Review of Narrative Comments from Clinical

American Association of Neurology Year 3 Information

During the first eight months of the third year students rotate through all core clerkships. Each clerkship is 4-weeks in duration. The final 15 weeks consist of students selecting from a comprehensive list of selectives that are offered from all departments and specialties within the school of medicine. During the 4-week surgery core clerkship each student is randomly assigned one faculty preceptor from one of ten surgical specialties. Each preceptor determines the students daily schedules which includes clinic, surgery, and attending educational conferences. Students are allowed to work up

Core Internal Medicine Clerkship Internal Medicine encompasses a broad spectrum of knowledge that is foundational for any subsequent specialty that a student chooses to pursue. Exceptional patient care requires not only medical knowledge, but the ability to work in multidisciplinary teams, an understanding of the social determinants of health, the importance of safe transitions of care, and operating within the healthcare system. Most importantly, it requires the delivery of compassionate patient care. The Internal Medicine Clerkship allows students to explore and learn about all of these

GOAL: The goal of the four-week Family and Community Medicine (FCM) clerkship is to introduce students to the Patient-Centered Medical Home through the breadth and scope of family medicine, including the psychosocial and procedural aspects, particularly as they apply to ambulatory care. The clerkship uses structured learning experiences in the actual task environment of practicing family physicians. It emphasizes integration of comprehensive ambulatory care with community health and resources. OBJECTIVES: By the end of the FCM clerkship students will have been exposed to, gained experience in