Course Catalog » Family & Community Medicine 130.23

Subject: Family & Community Medicine
Course Number: 130.23
Course Title: CIEx- Palliative Care - Fresno
Units: 3
School: Medicine
Department: Family And Community Medicine

Course Description: This is a Bridges Curriculum CIEx, which provides medical students in Foundation 2 opportunities to broaden and enhance their professional development in health care settings different from those of their core clerkships. Students will spend 2 weeks on the inpatient palliative care service at CRMC working with our multidisciplinary team, which includes a supervising physician, a Hospice and Palliative Medicine fellow, nurse, social worker, and Chaplain. Half day in our outpatient CCI, Clovis.
Prerequisites: All UCSF students must contact Linda Alvarez for enrollment (Armelinda.Alvarez@ucsf.edu) to initiate CIEx process at Fresno.
Restrictions: must be 3rd year students.
Activities: Direct - Lecture, Direct - Clinical Experience/Patient Contact, Student - Lecture

Instructor of Record: D. Gurusinghe
May the student choose the instructor for this course? No
Does enrollment in this course require instructor approval? No

Quarter(s) Offered: Fall, Winter, Spring, Summer
Course Grading Convention: P/NP (Pass/Not Pass) or S/U (Satisfactory/Unsatisfactory)
Graduate Division course: No
Is this a web-based online course? No
Is this an Interprofessional Education (IPE) course? No
May students in the Graduate Division (i.e. pursuing Master or PhD) enroll in this course? No
Repeat course for credit? No