Central Washington Family Medicine Fourth Year Sub-Intership
CWFM-R’s sub-internship (advanced fourth year elective) in family medicine is a four-week block rotation for fourth year students from U.S. LCME and Osteopathic accredited medical schools.
The sub-internship provides exposure to the clinic, the hospitals, and the community, emphasizing continuity of care and exposure to the common problems which present in the family medicine clinic. The busy inpatient experience serves a typical family medicine population of neonates, ante-partum and post-partum patients, toddlers, children, adolescents, adults, and geriatric patients.
A typical experience includes inpatient shift work, morning and evening sign out, and teaching rounds with the Family Medicine Service plus outpatient clinics in our family medicine clinic. On the inpatient service, students are given primary responsibility for one to three patients depending on service volume and the acuity of patient illness.
Students attend the residency’s didactic conferences which include hands on procedural workshops and lectures.