Teaching Activities

• Physical Exam Rounds: walking rounds to see and discuss high yield exam findings on admitted inpatients.

• Simulation: interactive procedural and immersive simulation sessions applying clinical skills in a realistic setting.

• Professor’s Rounds: case-based discussion with resident or faculty sharing thought the process as they work through a clinical unknown case provided by students.

• Didactics: a case-based review of common internal medicine concepts.

Didactic Resources

Please click here to access the shared drive with lecture materials and schedules.

Additional Resources

• Podcasts - sample of high yield IM podcasts

• Aquifer - case-based clinical learning

• Blaufuss.org - popular auscultation site

• Life in the Fast Lane - EKG library

• Online MedEd - various chalk talks by specialty

• Stanford 25 - high yield physical exam techniques

• UCSD Clinical Medicine Guide - overview of the history, exam, and presentations

• Yale 20 - high yield didactics on IM clerkship topics

Places to Know

• Boshell Diabetes Building (BDB) 3^rd Floor: clerkship orientation and lectures, inpatient morning report

• Spain Wallace 9th Floor: Tinsley Harrison ward services

• West Pavilion Conference Center 2^nd Floor: noon conference and Thursday morning report

• Quarterback Tower (QBT) 3^rd Floor of Jefferson Tower: Simulation

• VA 5^th Floor: VA ward services A-D and morning report; team E is on the 4th floor

• VA Annex Building: VA clinics

• Whitaker and Kirklin Clinics: UAB clinic