We offer many elective courses during the senior year to best serve each student’s individual needs and goals. Students with well-defined career goals and those who are still in the process of choosing a specific area to focus on have a wide assortment of electives to choose from. Most courses are two or four weeks in duration.
Students are also encouraged to approach faculty members for the development of unique courses.
| Department: | Pediatrics |
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| Course Number: | PEDCAR-4990 |
| Course Name: | Pediatric Cardiology |
| Instructors: | Drs. Biddix, Colon, Doyle and Randall |
| Course Description: | Prerequisite: Successful completion of 3rd year. Course Description: Outpatient experience in Pediatric Cardiology (patients having congenital or acquired heart diseases). Students will be seeing patients for initial visits and diagnostics as well as follow up visits for outpatient therapies and post-surgical interventions. Students will see a large and varied population including common benign murmurs, sports physical cardiac evaluations, arrhythmias, medically complex patients and congenital heart disease patients. |
| Educational Objectives: | The student will demonstrate the ability to: 1. Develop a logical method of taking cardiac history 2. Perform a thorough cardiac exam, including identifying and describing murmurs 3. Describe the physiology and anatomy producing cardiac findings 4. Perform basic interpretation of X-rays and EKG's 5. Apply information learned from observing echocardiograms and cardiac catheterizations to clinical patient care. |
| Types of Patients: | Outpatients birth to young adulthood |
| Teaching Sessions /Conferences: | Cardiology-Cardiac Surgery Conference, Fridays, 8-9 am |
| Resources /Readings: | 1. Behrman, Kliegman, Jenson: Nelson Textbook of Pediatrics 2. Park: Pediatric Cardiology for Practitioners 3. Dubin: Rapid Interpretation of EKG's |
| Evaluation Method(s): | Direct Observation, Conference Participation, Mid-Rotation Feedback |
| Contact Information: | Course Coordinator: Teresa Sarles, [email protected] |
| Period(s) Available: | |
| Available Length: | 4 weeks |
| Max Students: | 2 |
| Visiting Students: | Yes |