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Ambulatory Internal Medicine

Rotation at a Glance

Location

AMG Internal Medicine Residency Program [faculty practice]
1000 Galloping Hill Road, Suite 106
Union, NJ

Duration

Four weeks or two weeks, depending upon preceptor availability:

  • Four-week rotations start on the first Monday of the month
  • Two-week rotations start on the first or third Monday of the month

Offered

Year-round

Prerequisites

Successful completion of all third-year core clerkships

Description:

The Ambulatory Internal Medicine elective provides a full-time clinical learning experience at the AMG Internal Medicine Residency Program faculty practice. The site is a busy, community clinic that is also the continuity practice for Overlook Medical Center’s internal medicine residents. It serves an ethnically diverse group of patients with a broad range of medical conditions. Highly trained faculty physicians and excellent support personnel manage the practice.

Learning Experience:

Students will:

  • See a panel of patients, under the direct supervision of attending physicians
  • Participate in and contribute to a variety of didactic experiences, including a weekly Wednesday morning lecture series
  • Gain experience in the evaluation and management of many common outpatient problems in internal medicine, with a special emphasis on preventive medicine and screening
  • Learn essential aspects of practice management such as billing, coding, and pre-operative consultation skills)
  • Evidence based medicine is emphasized

Goals & Objectives:
  • To provide students a structured continuity experience in ambulatory care
  • To gain experience in the evaluation and management of many common outpatient problems in internal medicine, with an emphasis on preventive medicine and screening
  • To identify essential aspects of practice management (e.g. billing, coding, and pre-operative consultation skills)

Feedback & Evaluation

Feedback and evaluation will be done by attending preceptors and residents. Students will also evaluate their preceptors and residents, and the elective.