Junior Internship for 4th year Medical Students in NICU

This is a face-to-face clinical rotation receiving 6 credit hours.  The student will function as a junior intern with increased autonomy in patient care and must demonstrate competency in all of the Entrustable Professional Activities required for graduation. For this Junior Internship, the student's care of critically ill infants is under direct ongoing supervision of NICU faculty and/or fellows. Evaluation, diagnosis, and treatment of neonates are based upon pathophysiologic principles. The relationship of infants' disorders to intrauterine events is stressed. The student participates in rounds and supervised patient care on the same basis as the pediatric intern. This includes delivery room management of distressed infants, admission of inborn and transported neonates, management of respiratory support, fluids and electrolytes and all other considerations that comprise multisystem support of sick infants, as well as procedures inherent to such care. Students would also be expected to write orders that can be cosigned and take overnight call or participate in a series of night shifts one week of the rotation. Exposure to neonates with Neonatal Abstinence Syndrome (NAS) would highlight the current national health crisis of narcotic addiction and its impact on newborn. Ongoing communication with perinatal social workers, whose activities are concerned with high-risk infants and their mothers, will expose the student to the highly sensitive psychosocial ramifications experienced by the families of babies in intensive care units.

General Course Information

New Course Number:	PED-40110
Current Course Title:	Newborn Medicine
New Course Title:	Junior Internship in NICU
College:	Medicine
Department:	Pediatrics
Campus (City of course):	Memphis
Type of Student:	4 Year Medical Students
Grade Mode (Standard= A,B,C,F), P= (Pass/Fail):	Standard
Schedule Type:	Rotation-Required Selective
Instruct. Methodology (clerkship, clinical, etc.):	Clinical
Deadline for Cancellation:	Thirty days before start of elective/rotation
Deadline for Excused Absence:	Thirty days before start of elective/rotation
Time off for Interviews:	No (Not allowed for JI’s)
Off cycle start and stop:	None (Not allowed for JI’s)
Session Length (2,4,6,8 weeks)	4 weeks

Instructor of Record and Coordinator

Instructor of Record:	Mohamad Elabiad, MD, MS
Instructor of Record email:	melabiad@uthsc.edu
Course Coordinator:	Kimberley Jones
Coordinator Contact email:	kjones62@uthsc.edu
Coordinator Contact phone:	901.448-4751

Name of Hospital

name of the hospital(s) or clinical site(s)

Sheldon B Korones Newborn Center, Regional One Health

Course Prerequisites

Prerequisites:

Completion of 5 CORE Clerkships inclusive of Pediatric Core Clerkship

Additional Course Details:
Orientation location/ time:
853 Jefferson Avenue, Suite E#201, Memphis, TN- 38120
8:30 AM on the first day of rotation Explanation of Entrustable Professional Activities (EPA)

EPAs and Medical School Year for Developing Proficiency
	Pre-clerkship	Clerkship/M3	Post-clerkship/M4
1. Gather a history and perform a physical examination	X	X
2. Prioritize differential diagnosis following a clinical encounter		X
3. Recommend and interpret common diagnostic and screening tests		X
4. Enter and discuss orders and prescriptions			X
5. Document a clinical encounter in the patient record		X
6. Provide an oral presentation of a clinical encounter	X	X
7. Form clinical questions and retrieve evidence to advance patient care			X
8. Give or receive a patient handover to transition care responsibility			X
9. Collaborate as a member of an interprofessional team		X	X
10. Recognize a patient requiring urgent or emergency care and initiate evaluation and management			X
11. Obtained informed consent for tests and/or procedures		X
12. Perform general physician procedures		X	X
13. Identify system failures and contribute to a culture of safety and improvement	X	X	X