FAM 417 - Family Medicine Acting Internship

The student will spend 4 weeks with the Ghent Family Medicine inpatient team at Sentara Norfolk General Hospital. Inpatient service only admits patients from the Ghent Family Practice. The student’s responsibilities are commensurate to those of an intern on the family medicine service. These responsibilities include daily rounds, management of patients, evaluations of patients in the emergency department, admissions and discharges through EMR. For continuity, there will be opportunities to follow the discharged patient(s) during follow-up at the Ghent ambulatory center. There will also be opportunities to take night call with the family medicine intern. All activities will be supervised by a senior resident and the rounding faculty. The acting intern will attend didactic lectures one afternoon per week, and will spend one afternoon per week in the outpatient setting seeing patients.