Spartanburg Regional Third and Fourth-Year Clerkships
High school and college students interested in shadowing under a hospital department should email Gloria Graves, Student Programs Coordinator, at ggraves@srhs.com or call 864-560-6278.
For information on non-physician clinical practicums, rotations or internships for college students, nurses, nurse practioners, physician assistants, etc., please email Gloria Graves or call 864-560-6278.
All allopathic medical students—in-state or out-of-state—should contact Kristin C. Cochran, by phone 843-792-6977 or fax 843-792-4430.
All osteopathic medical students may contact Caitlyn Boggs, Medical Student Coordinator, by email at mcboggs@srhs.com or phone 864-560-6748.
Housing is available for third and fourth year medical students on a first-come, first-served basis.
Medical Student Clerkships Available
- Surgery
- Family Medicine in the Community Hospital
- Rural Family Practice
- Internal Medicine
- Infectious Disease
- Obstetrics & Gynecology
- Pediatrics
- Emergency Medicine
- Psychiatry
Click here to download application to indicate your interest in any of the following clerkships.
Surgery
Services: General Surgery, Trauma/Critical Care, Oncologic and Vascular
Course Director: Barry Hird, M.D., Assistant Program Director
Duration: 2-4 week rotation
Course Offered: Throughout the year
Number of Available Spots per Month: 2
Students Report To: Please contact Caitlyn Boggs, Medical Student Coordinator, via email mcboggs@srhs.com or phone 864-560-6748.
Rotation Overview:
Under the direction of board-certified surgeons and surgical residents, the student will have the opportunity to care for the surgical patient and participate in surgical cases in the Operating Room. During this time, students may perform pre-surgical evaluations, assist in surgeryand participate in post-op care. They are under the supervision of, and directly responsible to, the General Surgery Program Director and Surgery Student Coordinator.
Objectives: Specific to surgery rotation request.
Family Medicine in the Community Hospital
Course Director: Scott Klosterman, D.O., Osteopathic Director
Duration: 2-4 week rotation
Course Offered: Throughout the year
Number of Available Spots per Month: 2
Students Report To: Please contact Caitlyn Boggs, Medical Student Coordinator, via email mcboggs@srhs.com or phone 864-560-6748.
Rotation Overview:
The medical student will work under the direction of the Family Medicine faculty and senior residents in the Family Medicine Center of Spartanburg Regional Medical Center. The student will have the opportunity to actively participate in ambulatory care of family medicine patients and discussion of patients hospitalized on the Family Medicine service. Special emphasis will be made to familiarize the student with the opportunities available to a family physician, the continuity of care and awareness of the total life situation of the patient. The student will have the opportunity to work with family physicians, various consultants in the specialized areas of medicine and behavioral science faculty. The role of the family physician as coordinator of health care will be demonstrated.
Objectives: Upon completion of this course, students will have had brief exposure to the Family Medicine Residency Training Program available in a large community (consortium) hospital. “Team management” of the patient, his/her illness and patient’s family will be demonstrated and emphasized under the direction and supervision of a family physician.
Rural Family Practice
Course Director: Petra Warren, M.D.
Duration: 2-4 week rotation
Course Offered: Throughout the year
Number of Available Spots per Month: 1
Students Report To: Please contact Caitlyn Boggs, Medical Student Coordinator, via email mcboggs@srhs.com or phone 864-560-6748.
Rotation Overview:
This course is designed to give the student first-hand exposure to and practical experience with patients in a rural setting. Instruction will include emphasis on comprehensive, continuing care and office management in a community hospital. The student will be expected to actively participate in all phases of the course.
Objectives:
Students will master interview techniques in a rural clinic. They will learn to integrate system-based practice (using all available resources) into rural practice. Students also will learn general pharmacology in Family Medicine and pharmaco-economics in a rural practice. The student will be able to understand family dynamics and their influence on patient care.
Internal Medicine
Course Director: David Holt, M.D.
Duration: 4 week rotation
Course Offered: Throughout the year
Number of Available Spots per Month: 1
Students Report To: Please contact Caitlyn Boggs, Medical Student Coordinator, via email mcboggs@srhs.com or phone 864-560-6748.
Rotation Overview:
Although opportunities exist for the student to participate in the evaluation and care of outpatients in the clinic, most students choose the traditional “acting internship.” In this setting, the student admits, evaluates and provides treatment for patients typically encountered through the Emergency Room. The studentis supervised closely by a second-year Family Medicine resident and anattending physician who is a member of the Internal Medicine faculty. Attending rounds are held daily. There is an Internal Medicine noon conference weekly and a journal review session every other week. The student will gain experience in the evaluation and treatment of patients in a large community hospital. Although close supervision is provided, the student will be expected to serve as the patient’s primary physician during his/her hospital stay.
Infectious Disease
Course Director: Gregory T. Valainis, M.D.
Duration: 2-4 week rotation
Course Offered: Throughout the year
Number of Available Spots per Month: 1
Students Report To: Please contact Caitlyn Boggs, Medical Student Coordinator, via email mcboggs@srhs.com or phone 864-560-6748.
Rotation Overview:
The student will be instructed to participate in the evaluation of patients with a variety of infectious disease problems. Topics/cases will include basic infectious diseases (antibiotic-resistant diseases, urinary tract infections, pneumonia, wound infections, bacteremias, central nervous system infections, etc.) to complex multisystem disorders (FUO, multiple organ failure, HIV, etc.). The rotation is hospital-based, but outpatient clinics reflecting the typical work of an ID Practitioner are held weekly.
Objectives:
Students will be able to understand the rationale for antimicrobial selection. They will become familiar with evaluating and treating HIV Infection, as well as see a variety of nosocomial infections and their impact. Students will also interface with the Pathology and Microbiology Lab.
Obstetrics and Gynecology
Course Director: Sammy Iskandar, M.D.
Duration: 2-4 week rotation
Course Offered: Throughout the year
Number of Available Spots per Month: 1
Students Report To: Please contact Caitlyn Boggs, Medical Student Coordinator, via email mcboggs@srhs.com or phone 864-560-6748.
Rotation Overview:
This course is designed to present to the student the essential aspects of prenatal obstetrical care and routine office gynecological care. In addition, students should become familiar with the conduct of both normal and abnormal labor and delivery. The student will be assigned patients in each of these areas. The student will help manage and assist with deliveries of laboring patients. The student personally will conduct normal deliveries with supervision and will follow patients through their postpartum care. The student will make rounds with the residents assigned to the service, as well as with the course instructors. The student will attend all regularly scheduled prenatal and gynecological clinics, as well as all regularly scheduled obstetrical and gynecological conferences and rounds. The student will be instructed in the immediate neonatal care of the newborn.
Objectives:
Upon completion of this course, it is expected that students will be able to examine and evaluate routine gynecological patients presenting for office consultation. Students should be able to take a complete history and perform an adequate pelvic examination with cancer-screening smears. Additionally, students should be thoroughly familiar with the prenatal management of normal obstetrical patients. Students will have conducted the delivery of several normal patients with supervision and should be able to manage the postpartum care of normal obstetrical cases.
General Pediatrics
Course Director: Dennis G. Jurs, M.D.
Duration: 2-4 week rotation
Course Offered: Throughout the year
Number of Available Spots per Month: 1
Students Report To: Please contact Caitlyn Boggs, Medical Student Coordinator, via email mcboggs@srhs.com or phone 864-560-6748.
Rotation Overview:
Students will be assigned to a Family Medicine resident in Pediatrics and will work on the Pediatric Unit and in the Outpatient Clinic. The pediatric experience will involve a broad exposure from the most common pediatric issues to rare diseases. Night call will be every fourth or fifth night with one of the residents on the service. The student will work with residents and faculty in the Pediatric Ambulatory Office (Monday-Friday). Inpatient rounds start with the residents at approximately 7am. Attending rounds are 7:30 a.m. to 9a.m. daily (Monday-Friday). The inpatient unit consists of 12beds with overflow capability for general pediatrics. Routine newborn care is also available in the routine nursery. The delivery rate is approximately 3,000 per year. The student is expected to admit and workup patients with the residents through the office and in the ER. The student will be assigned specific patients to follow on the pediatric unit. A pediatric lecture will be given by faculty at 12:30-1:30 pm on the first Tuesday of each month, and Pediatric Grand Rounds will be 12:30-1:15 p.m. on the second Tuesday of each month. The student will be expected to choose a topic for a brief presentation to the faculty. The student’s experience should provide a good background in general pediatrics.
Emergency Medicine
Course Director: Bradley Davis, M.D.
Duration: 4 week rotation
Course Offered: Throughout the year
Number of Available Spots per Month: 2
Students Report To: Please contact Caitlyn Boggs, Medical Student Coordinator, via email mcboggs@srhs.com or phone 864-560-6748.
Rotation Overview:
This course will provide an interactive, academic introduction to Emergency Medicine. The emphasis will be to develop the student’s ability to rapidly create appropriate differential diagnoses based on historical and physical examination findings. These findings will elicit further diagnostic and treatment decision making. All patient-student interactions will be performed under the close supervision of the attending emergency physician. The student will also learn about the management of emergency conditions from the patients’ and medical staff members’ standpoints. In addition to the mastery of basic sciences and development of a strong clinical acumen, the student will realize that compassion and communication are crucial physician and mid-level provider attributes. Throughout the rotation, the student will work with Emergency Medicine residency-trained and board-certified emergency physicians.
Objectives:
Students will be acquainted with the efficient and compassionate care necessary for patients in the Emergency Room. They will acquire specific skills necessary for patient care in the Emergency Room. Students also will be able to recognize and treat common emergencies (trauma, burns, drug O.D., shock, coma, head injury, psychiatric emergency, fracture, medical emergency, acute abdominal pain).
Psychiatry
Course Director: Vonda Gravely, M.D.
Duration: 2-4 week rotation
Course Offered: Throughout the year
Number of Available Spots per Month: 1
Students Report To: Please contact Caitlyn Boggs, Medical Student Coordinator, via email mcboggs@srhs.com or phone 864-560-6748.
Rotation Overview:
Each medical student will have the opportunity to work directly with attending physicians in the Department of Geriatric Psychiatry, as well as General Psychiatry. The rotation consists of rounds and duties, which include daily multidisciplinary treatment team participation, on both the Inpatient Geriatric Psychiatry Unit as well as the Inpatient General Psychiatry Unit. The student will rotate through Emergency Psychiatry as an extension of Spartanburg Regional’s Emergency Medicine Department where he/she will work with the attending physician and psychiatric liaison to provide consultative services. Students will spend time in the sub-specialty of Psychosomatic Medicine while gaining expertise in hospital psychiatric consultative services throughout the month. Students will rotate in the outpatient service with a focus on outpatient medication management as well as psychotherapy, where they will have the benefit of working with licensed psychologists.
Objectives:
Students will be able grasp the concept of the initial psychiatric assessment and develop appropriate differential diagnoses. Students should acquire basic principles of psychopharmacology and know how to further develop appropriate physician-patient rapport. Students will understand the mind-body connection. Students will develop their skills in presentations and working with families during extremely difficult situations.
Pathology
Course Director: Rosanna Lapham, M.D.
Duration: 2-4 week rotation
Course Offered: Throughout the year
Number of Available Spots per Month: 1
Students Report To: Please contact Caitlyn Boggs, Medical Student Coordinator, via email mcboggs@srhs.com or phone 864-560-6748.
Rotation Overview:
The student will spend a major portion of each day in the laboratory observing and participating in examination of surgical specimens. The student will be assigned to one or more pathologists and most of the teaching will be one-on-one. Daily duties will include assisting with frozen section examinations of breast, lymph node, thyroid, pulmonary, hepatic, pancreatic, gastrointestinal and reproductive specimens received from one large community hospital and two ambulatory surgery centers with a total of 31 operating rooms. The student will initially observe and later directly participate in examination and description of the gross and microscopic features of surgical pathology specimens. Correlation between surgical pathology, cytology and clinical laboratory results will be stressed. The anatomic and clinical pathology departments are closely integrated, and the student will be urged to pursue personal interests involving many phases of pathology.
Objectives:
The basic objective is an introduction to the practice of pathology in a community hospital, but after the first two weeks, students will be free to maintain a broad approach to laboratory medicine or to study any phase in greater detail. For students who plan to remain in pathology, emphasis will be placed on the mechanical and technical skills necessary in the day-to-day practice of pathology. In the case of students headed for other specialties, the emphasis will be upon full utilization of laboratory medicine in inpatient care.
Geriatrics
Course Director: Robert Houston, M.D.
Duration: 2-4 week rotation
Course Offered: Throughout the year
Number of Available Spots per Month: 1
Students Report To: Please contact Caitlyn Boggs, Medical Student Coordinator, via email mcboggs@srhs.com or phone 864-560-6748.
Rotation Overview:
Students will be assigned to a dually board-certified Family Medicine and Palliative Care physician. Over the course of the rotation, the student is expected to advance in knowledge of basic science and specific symptoms associated with the progression of disease states (cancer, CHF, COPD, ARF, HIV and liver disease). The student will learn to recognize the relevance of signs and symptoms associated with these diagnoses. The student is expected to be able to conduct a Palliative Care physical examination and understand the indications for, and interpretation of, pertinent laboratory and radiographic tests. The student is expected to understand the basic principles of pain management and symptom control at the end of life. The student is expected to advance in his/her communication skills with patients and families as they relate to disease prognosis and family dynamics. The student is expected to advance his/her knowledge in spirituality and family bereavement.