Fourth Year Medical Student Rotations

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

Sub-Internship Rotations 2011-2012 (current year):

Sub-Internship Rotations 2012-2013 (upcoming year):

All of the rotations offered are designed for medical students 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 of their medical school and the particular needs and interests of the student, and all are scheduled during the months of July through January of each calendar year.

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 student to rotate  on each of the core inpatient services (OB, Family Medicine, and Pediatrics) as well as opportunities for Procedures as well. 

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

The “Special Interest Week” is an opportunity for the interested 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 and 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 residents on-call caring for all aspects of maternal care including vaginal deliveries, c-sections, and emergent operative gynecology. In addition, the student is encouraged to participate in any daytime activities they are interested in while here as well.

• 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 indigent health center 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).

• 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 internse 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.