Medicine
Chairperson:
Ralph I. Horwitz, MD
Department web site:
http://medicine.stanford.edu
Faculty of Medicine:
http://medicine.stanford.edu/faculty/
Preclinical Instruction offers experiences in office practice by the Center for Education in Family and Community Medicine. These include the early clinical experience and summer assistantship programs.
Clinical Instruction is available to students at three stages of their training. Students begin the first stage of their training in the winter quarter preceding their first clinical clerkship with MED 208A, an introduction to history-taking and physical examination. Students continue in spring quarter with MED 208B, where they continue the process of acquiring clinical skills through instruction from preceptors at community hospitals. MED 208C (taken in conjunction with MED 208B) is designed to bridge the basic science and clinical years and to introduce clinical problem solving skills. The next stage is the general medicine clerkship, consisting of two one month assignments at SUMC and SUMC-affiliated hospitals and the one month family medicine clerkship. Third is an extensive choice among specialty clerkships that offer both inpatient and outpatient components. The department also has a large number of subinternships available, and there are a wide variety of special clinical opportunities which students can select.
Residency Program in Internal Medicine provides a three-year intensive experience in preparation for any career, from primary care or subspecialty internal medicine to academic medicine. During this training period, residents rotate in one-month blocks through general medicine wards and subspecialty services and clinics at SUMC, SCVMC, Menlo Clinic, Palo Alto Medical Clinic, Willow Clinic and PAVAMC. Residents have opportunities to care for patients with a wide variety of acute and chronic illnesses with equal emphasis on inpatient and outpatient experiences. In addition, they rotate through emergency, intensive care and acute coronary care services. Faculty work closely with residents, as the Department strongly supports the concept of team care. In addition to a three-week vacation each year, an additional one-week reading period is allowed in years two and three. For information, contact program director Dr. Kelley Skeff or administrator Fran Brumbaugh (franb@stanford.edu).
Postdoctoral Training is available in all divisions: Bone Marrow Transplantation, Cardiovascular Medicine, Clinical Pharmacology, Endocrinology and Metabolism, Family Medicine, Gastroenterology, General Internal Medicine , Gerontology, Health Policy, Hematology, Immunology, Infectious Diseases, Medical Information Sciences, Nephrology, Oncology, Preventive Medicine, and Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine. For information, refer to the Office of Postdoctoral Affairs home page located at http://postdocs.stanford.edu/ or the departmental home page.
