Small Group Activities And Cape Testing
CAPE CPE Testing (Gwyn Barley and CAPE staff): Clinical skills evaluation and testing. Scheduling will be done through the CAPE.

Career Development Sessions (Maureen Garrity and Lorraine Adams/Student Affairs): Advising and counseling concerning residency applications and fourth year graduation end issues. Topics to be covered include ERAS (Electronic Residency Application System) and NRMP (National Residency Match Program) registration and deadlines, MSPE (Medical Student’s Performance Evaluation/Dean’s Letter), personal statements, CV/ERAS content/format/personal statements and LORs (Letters of Reference).

Handoff Session (Eugene Chu and Clinical Faculty):
The overarching goal of this session is to provide students with an important new skill required for sub-interns- signing out patients and handing them off to colleagues for management overnight and when not in the hospital. The ability to adequately manage hand-offs is vital to the safety and care of patients in the hospital, regardless of which service you are on. This session will help students understand the importance of safe and effective communication of information between physicians when transferring patient care responsibilities. We will examine different modes of communication, systems outside of health care where handoffs are done effectively and give students an opportunity to practice structured written and verbal handoffs with prepared patient cases. The session is organized as follows:

1. Small group discussion: 45 minutes
   Topics include: appropriateness of various channels of communication, transfer of responsibility systems outside of healthcare and the importance of standardization of best practices for health care quality
2. Practicing handoffs : One hour
   Students will prepare a written handoff sheet based on prepared patient scenarios. They will then perform a structured, verbal handoff to a fellow student. Triage scenarios will be role played to assess adequacy of hand-offs and emphasize key components of the verbal and written sign-out. Students will have the opportunity to perform up to three handoffs each.

• Understand the importance of efficient and effective communication in transferring patient care responsibilities.
• Accurately and efficiently complete both written and verbal handoff processes.
• Identify active patient issues for contingency planning, read backs and interactive questioning.

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• Describe the importance of oral health to systemic health
• Recognize intra-oral diseases and lesions
• Perform the oral/head/neck examination
• Become familiar with dental clinical facilities

Clinical Knowledge And Skills Sessions
General Review of Antibiotics (Tom French)

Top Ten Drugs for the Inpatient Adult (Tom French)

Top Ten Drugs for the Inpatient Child (Tom French):
These interactive sessions are intended to review the pharmacology of commonly prescribed drugs in clinical practice. The sessions will specifically focus on antibiotics, plus the most commonly prescribed drugs for adult and children in a pediatric setting.

Respiratory Failure (Alex Benson):

Mechanical Ventillation (Jeff Sankoff or Bill Jansen):

Shock and Hemodynamic Monitoring (Kelsey Gray):

Skills Station: Vent 1/Pre-ACLS (1 hour each):

Acute Coronary Syndromes (Justin Hopkin):

Critical Care in Pregnancy (Steve Frankel):

Special Considerations (Eddie Stenehjem and Geoff Conners):

Trauma and Burns (Fred Sevryn):

Skills Stations: Vent 2/Trauma (45 minutes each):

Board Review Jeopardy: Includes an interactive 2 hour review of important concepts surrounding neurology and psychology, obstetrics and pediatrics (Kristina Tocce and Christine Jelinek), medicine, surgery and emergency medicine (CMRs).

Panel Discussion and Small Group Session on Medical Errors (Wendy Madigosky and Faculty Panelists): This panel discussion and the small group session that follows will provide students with strategies for recognizing and dealing with medical errors in clinical practice.

Additional Curriculum And Seminars
Hidden Curriculum (Clinical Facilitators): The Hidden Curriculum session will provide students with an opportunity to discuss positive and negative issues that they’ve encountered in the clinical setting.

Brown Bag Seminars: Will provide students with information about the CS and CK Step 2 exam along with information about loan management.