Fourth Year Medical Student Rotations

Fill out your Sub-Internship application online :
http://vcfm.net/applicant-info/sub-internship-application/

Sub-Internship Rotations 2013-2014 (upcoming year):

One half of the rotational slots are reserved (on hold) for our local medical students until they have had their enrollment, thus allowing those students the opportunity to secure rotational opportunities if desired. Following our local medical school’s enrollment (March 8, 2013 for July – December slots and October 15, 2013 for January slots) any remaining unfilled rotational slots are then released for any outside medical students to claim those rotational opportunities.

CURRENTLY WE HAVE BEEN INUNDATED WITH APPLICATIONS FOR THE 2013-2014 SUB-INTERNSHIP SEASON, AND WE WILL DECIDE ON THE REMAINING POSITIONS ON A COMPETITIVE BASIS BY THE END OF MARCH.

IF YOU STILL DESIRE TO APPLY, PLEASE SUBMIT A SCANNED COPY OF YOUR BOARD SCORES (USMLE OR COMLEX) INORDER TO COMPLETE YOUR APPLICATION AND GET INTO POSITION FOR THE REMAINING POSITIONS AVAILABLE.

As of April 2013 all of our regular sub-internship positions have been filled but we willcontinue to maintain a waiting list for any applicants that still desire to be in line for an open rotational position (should one occur).

Please contact us if you are interested in a “non-rotational” (informal) visit to sample the residency. This can be arranged for a limited number of interested students in and around their interview time (and housing can usually be provided for the extra time).

All of the rotations offered are designed for medical students who are definitely planning to pursue a career in Family Medicine in order to give them a broad exposure and understanding of our residency training program (to see who we are and where we are trying to go as a program and as individuals). 

For those interested students considering family medicine as their future specialty of choice, this experience is a good place to begin and see if you are on the same path or trajectory.

All of these rotations can be adjusted depending upon the schedule requirements of their medical school and the particular needs and interests of the student, and all are scheduled only during the months of July through January of each calendar year.

Sign ups for an upcoming year of rotations begins in March of each year following the previous recruitment season and is on a first come first serve basis (although rotations often open up later inthe year as some student’s schedules change so we do keep a waiting list as well).

REQUIREMENTS FOR APPLICATION:

1. All applicants must be currently enrolled medical students who have not yet graduated; these rotations are not designed for graduate medical students of any medical school.

2. All USMLE and/or COMLEX examination results must be sent for pre-screening review since we require the medical student to have passed their board examinations prior to securing a rotation with us; we prefer a copy of the test results to be sent to us prior to approving any rotation.

3. Due to the heavy interest in these rotations (and having several students each year who have secured rotations with us but they were planning on pursuing careers in disciplines other than Family Medicine) we have had to limit the rotations ONLY to medical students who are definitely pursuing a career in Family Medicine.

DETAILS OF THE ROTATIONS:

The Sub-Internship is a “traditional” 4-week rotation with Via Christi that is meant to be an “all-around” exposure to our program and the varied aspects of training here within the residency program. It is set up for the medical student to rotate  on each of the core inpatient services (OB, Family Medicine, and Pediatrics) as well as opportunities for procedural exposure as well. 

While on the Family Medicine service the sub-intern will also work alongside our residents and faculty in the outpatient clinic. In addition, the student can “customize” the experience with a “Special Interest Focus”.

The “Special Interest Focus” is an opportunity for the interested medical student to “craft” a more specialized experience in the various areas that we emphasize beyond traditional Medicine, Pediatrics, and Obstetrics experience of a sub-internship. This experience time-frame will vary depending upon the desired level of interest, the time of year, and opportunities available.

If interested the medical student can choose to spend additional time in any of the varied areas of interest such as …Maternal Care is a 2 or 4-week rotation designed to give the interested medical student an intense immersion in maternal care on a night float service working one-on-one with our Family medicine residents on-call caring for all aspects of maternal care including vaginal deliveries, c-sections, high-risk obstetrics, and emergent operative gynecology. In addition, the medical student is encouraged to participate in any daytime activities that they might be interested in while here as well in the other aspects of the residency training program beyond obstetrics.

• Rural Medicine at one of our rural rotational sites with several of our graduates in rural practice (within a short drive of Wichita)

• Sports Medicine (if the service does not already have a rotating medical student); but if this rotational experience is already occupied, the students can still participate in Sports Medicine during the rotation such as sporting events that we cover, casting clinic, and lectures.

• Procedures such as colonoscopy, EGD, OB ultrasound, Colposcopy, and other office-based procedures are also available and usually are participated in during the second week of the medicine portion of the rotation.

• Women’s Health in our Dysplasia Clinic (and possibly also in a local FQHC clinic which emphasizes gynecological care)

• OB Ultrasound in either of our Family Medicine centers or at an outside clinical opportunity that is designed around OB ultrasound.

• International Medicine is a chance to experience some of the diverse training experienced within our post-residency International Family Medicine Fellowship (trauma service, ultrasound, dental training, plastic surgery/burn care, orthopedics, and tropical medicine lectures) depending upon the time of year and current rotations of our international fellows.

• Faith-Based Clinical Care is for those students with a special interest in applying their faith into practice by spending time with the faculty and residents who are also interested in this as well.

• Crisis Pregnancy Medical Work at our local affiliated clinical site, Choices Medical Clinic for crisis counseling, OB ultrasound, prenatal care, and Perinatal Hospice consultation and care for those families experiencing lethal fetal anomalies in their pregnancy.

Maternal Care is a specialized night-float rotation designed to give the interested student an intense immersion into all aspects of maternal care within our hospital system, which is a high-volume obstetrical care experience for family medicine residency training. The sub-intern in this area will participate in perinatal screening and support, admissions to labor and delivery, ongoing care of the laboring patient, the eventual vaginal and ceasarian deliveries, post-delivery care and circumcisions of newborns, as well as operative gynecological care both in the operating room and the outpatient Dysplasia Clinic.

Sports Medicine is a 2 or 4-week rotation designed to give the interested medical student a chance to participate in all aspects of sports medicine care and musculoskeletal medicine both in the outpatient Sports Medicine Clinic and at various seasonal-based athletic events in and around the community to include Division I and Division II University programs, local High School athletics programs, as well as several professional sports leagues including Baseball, Hockey, and Arena Football.