HuBio 600A

Capstone I

Transition to Clerkships

Karen McDonough, MD

Course Chair

 

 

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Course Description

Capstone I is a required course aimed at smoothing your transition to 3rd year.  Lectures will cover important aspects of life on the wards: team structure, what to do (and what not to do), legal requirements and issues, and infection control.

 

Small group sessions will focus on skills you’ll need for the wards: placing IVs, drawing blood gases, managing team dynamics and more.

 

Course Objectives

At the completion of this course, students will be able to:

1.      Describe the roles and responsibilities of members of the medical team.

2.      Describe indications for and steps in performing basic procedures.

3.      Write basic admission orders

4.      Demonstrate the principles of effective team communication for safe patient care

5.      Appropriately order common diagnostic studies.

6.      Recognize and respond to student mistreatment

7.      Demonstrate respect for patients of all cultures

Eligibility to Take HuBio 600a Capstone I: Transition to Clerkships

All students, including those in concurrent degree program or year-out research projects, are required to complete the Transition to Clerkships course at the end of the second year (or completion of HuBio curriculum for expanded student) regardless of whether the students will be entering the clinical curriculum that year, and need to register through MyUW for Capstone I - HuBio 600A: Transition to Clerkships for the Spring Quarter (registration is open February 20-March 29).  MSTP students or students taking a year out are also encouraged to audit the relevant portion of the course as needed after the completion of their graduate or year-out work prior to entering the clinical curriculum.

Course Time and Location

The 2009 Capstone I course will run from May 28 to May 29, 2009. Classes will be held from 8:00-4:20 pm each day in various rooms throughout Health Sciences and the medical center (T5wing, T4 lecture halls, T6 labs, ISIS). 

 

Directions to ISIS Lab.

Go to the main lobby of UWMC on the third floor.  Keep walking (south) past the gift shop and the Cascade elevators, over the sky bridge to the Surgery Pavilion.  Take the spiral staircase or the elevators down to the first floor of the surgery pavilion.  The ISIS Lab is behind (south of) the staircase, on the first floor.

Course Materials

Materials for lectures will be available on our web site and can easily be downloaded. Some lecturers will have Word documents, PDF, and/or Power Point Slides. Materials will be continuously updated so please check the web site prior to presentations.

Grades

The course is Credit/No Credit. Your grade is solely dependent on your attendance, which is tracked by the evaluations you submit for each session.

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Questions?

Contact Angie Wick, angwick@u.washington.edu

 

 

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