Case Presentation

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While we wait, please complete the questionnaire
about Austin and Galveston in your packet
(salmon colored form)
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Career Interest Contacts

• Internal Medicine March 25th at 4pm 4.130 John
  Sealy Annex RSVP to Toni Hickerson via email
• General Surgery - Drs. Mileski and Gugliuzza
• Neurosurgery - Dr. Patterson (ext 26321)
• Obstetrics/Gynecology
• Will hold a meeting you will receive an e-mail
• Ophthalmology - Dr. John Davis (ext x75400)
• Pediatrics
• Meeting Wednesday, March 25 530 PM 3.302
  Childrens Hospital
• Drs. Pruitt, Rowen or anyone else will be happy
  to talk to you
• Plastic Surgery - Dr. Phillips (ext 21257)
• Urology - Dr. Orihuela (ext 22091)

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Year 4 Scheduling
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Year 4 Courses

• Senior Surgery
• Acting Internship selective
• Basic Science/Humanities selective
• Ambulatory Community Selective
• Neurology Selective
• Emergency Medicine Selective
• Electives (5 blocks needed to graduate)

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Acting Internship

• You pick the field
• Must have an advanced degree of responsibility
  above that of a MS3
• Lots of options locally
• If you choose one at another med school (rarely
  ok outside of academia)
• Need approval from the UTMB department
• Might be called subinternship

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Emergency Medicine

• Lots of options locally
• Rules for elsewhere
• Selective can be done at any institution with an
  established EM residency program
• Selective can be done at a university or medical
  school based emergency department or community
  emergency department anywhere in the U.S. with a
  supervising staff ED physician sponsoring the
  student.
• All EM clerkships must include some degree of
  exposure to pediatric patients.
• Selective cannot be done at an ambulatory acute
  care facility/clinic where EMS are not allowed to
  bring patients.
• All students must provide procedure and case
  logs.
• Students may do a pediatric EM rotation at a
  large Childrens hospital with an ER.
• Students may do a rotation in the ER at any Level
  1 trauma center.
• Selective should allow students to evaluate new
  patients independently with subsequent faculty
  oversight.

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Neurology selective

• A little tighter locally slots in Austin,
  Galveston, St. Lukes
• Any medical school Neurology course
• Community Preceptor
• The neurology selective must accomplish the
  following objectives
• Perform a neurologically oriented history
• Perform a neurological physical exam
• Use information obtained from the history and
  physical exam to localize the lesion
• Synthesize the above information to formulate a
  pathophysiological/etiological differential
  diagnosis and plan
• Diagnoses encountered by the medical student
  should span the entire neuraxis

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BSHSBasic Science and Humanities Selective

• Pre-existing courses available
• 50 of students derive their own project
• Proposal form available on the web
• Dont leave planning to the last minute
• Must write a paper

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ACSAmbulatory Community Selective

• You choose the field
• Must be ambulatory not patients in a hospital
  bed must be in the community, i.e. not at UTMB
• Objectives
• to learn about the practice of a chosen medical
  discipline and to practice that disciplines
  diagnostic and therapeutic skills in a Texas
  community setting.
• identify characteristics of practice in the
  selected community scope of practice in the
  selected community potential lifestyle of a
  physician in the selected community.
• identify the roles practicing physicians play in
  a community, such as patient advocate, public or
  community health monitor, or community leader.
• learn more about issues of practice management
  and health care systems in communities, such as
  billing issues, professional communication with
  therapists, telemedicine, rural medicine, and
  accessing systems of support for patients with
  special needs.

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Scheduling

• Scheduling for Year 4 occurs in two phases
• Initial Schedule Preferences
• Submitted electronically via E-Connect
• Deadline 5 PM Friday April 3
• Receive initial schedule on Monday April 27
• Add/Drop Process
• Begins Tuesday, April 28
• Continues for remainder of the academic year

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Scheduling

• Included in initial schedule preferences
• UTMB required course
• UTMB selectives (except BSHS)
• UTMB electives
• Not included in initial schedule preferences
• (Conducted during the add/drop process)
• Austin courses (required, selective, elective)
• Non-UTMB courses (required, selective, elective)
• Any Research elective (UTMB or non-UTMB)
• BSHS

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Initial Schedule Preferences

• Part I Block periods
• For vacation
• For planned Austin courses
• For planned non-UTMB courses
• For carry-over Year 3 clerkships scheduled

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E-connect screen
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Initial Schedule Preferences

• Part II Required and Selective Courses
• For Senior Surgery in Galveston or Houston
• For Acting Internship Selective
• For Ambulatory Community Selective
• Indicate periods in which you prefer each course
• Austin version added later See Electives
  or ACS Brochure

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E-connect screen
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A Word about the ACS

• Form in packet for geographic site preference
• You still need to ENROLL!!!!
• Through E-connect before April 3, by C form after
  that
• You may make changes to ACS courses (add, drop,
  or change site preference) up to 60 days before
  the rotation begins
• If you would like to make a change gt 60 days in
  advance, please contact Lisa Mignerey at 747-1850
  or lmmigner_at_utmb.edu.
• Site confirmation will be e-mailed to you
  approximately one week prior to the start of the
  course.
• Laptop computers will be available upon request
  to students assigned to non-commutable sites.

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E-connect, AI screen
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Initial Schedule Preferences

• Part III EM, Neuro and Elective Courses (except
  Research)
• Option B schedule it in period requested or any
  open period
• Option C schedule it in period requested or
  schedule the next elective listed in that period
• Indicate periods in which you prefer each course

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E-connect screenUse for Electives, EM, Neuro
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Course Numbers

• Emergency Medicine
• EMEU 4200 - ER Selective-Galveston
• EMEU 4210 - ER Selective-Austin
• EMEU 4220 - ER Selective-St. Luke's
• EMEU 4230 - ER Selective-St. Joseph's
• Neurology
• NEUU 4200 - SR Neurology Selective-Galveston
• NEUU 4210 - SR Neurology Selective-Austin
• NEUU 4220 - SR Neurology Selective-St. Luke's

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EM and Neuro, more info

• If you plan to complete the selective at another
  medical school
• B forms and C forms Dr. Yoo/Oommen to sign
• If you plan to complete the Neuro selective with
  a community preceptor
• Need lots of warning Karen Hunley is your
  contact
• C form will be required to complete registration
• Either way, probably best to schedule a UTMB
  course just in case
• Waiting lists will be kept

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Adding/Dropping Courses

• Begins Tuesday April 28
• UTMB Courses
• Austin and non-UTMB Courses
• Research electives
• BSHS selectives
• Add/drop deadlines
• Electronic and paper-based options

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VSAS

• Visiting Student Application Service
• Centralized system for away courses
• In Texas, UTSW and UTHSCSA participate
• Instructions in your packet
• Anita Hendrix in Enrollment Services gives you
  the required access if you need it

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Remember, C is for Complete

• Without a properly completed, signed C form, your
  registration is not complete!!!!!!!

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R is for Research Readiness

• We gotta know that you have a plan, the
  permission to do the research, the resources to
  do it and appropriate oversight of your project

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B Form is for Before You Go

• We gotta know theyll take you B2 (Austin
  doesnt need this)
• They might wanna know stuff about you B1

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Registration Errors

• Participating in a course you have not added
• No credit
• Failing to participate in a course you have not
  dropped
• Failure
• Withdrawal

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The ICEEIntegrated Curriculum Evaluation Exercise

• Required for graduation
• Two phase examination
• First phase periods 1 or 2
• 85 of available dates are in period 1
• Hand in form if you cannot take it block 1
• Due date April 3
• Take it even if youre out of synch if you plan
  to graduate on time