Elective Type: Intensive Clinical (ICE) (e.g., Subinternship)
An Intensive Clinical Elective course is one in which the focus is on an indepth clinical experience with patients with undifferentiated problems and includes an expectation that students will function with increased responsibility for patient care. It is also expected that the SIU faculty member will remain the same during the entire 4-week experience. The following criteria have been identified for Intensive Clinical Electives:
Decision Making: Students must function in a clinical setting where they engage in decisions regarding clinical diagnosis and management of patients with undifferentiated problems.
Patient Care Responsibilities: Students must function with increased responsibility for patient care (on the order of a Subinternship). Examples of such responsibilities include (but are not limited to) conducting comprehensive patient evaluations, formulating diagnoses, developing an implementing treatment plans, taking overnight call, etc.
Faculty Supervision: A SIU faculty member who has overall responsibility for the elective over the entire course of the 4-week experience must provide oversight of teaching and student evaluation. Supervision must remain intensive, but must also allow students to work through the decision-making process with regard to patient evaluation, diagnosis, and treatment. Students should have sufficient direct faculty supervisory contact (i.e., students have the opportunity to interact with faculty in the same manner as an intern).