Emergency Medicine Electives Emergency Medicine Prerequisite: Fourth-year medical students who have successfully completed their Internal Medicine, Surgery, and Pediatric clerkships. Availability is limited. Munson Medical Center's Emergency Department is staffed by board-certified emergency physicians and has achieved designation as a Level II Trauma Center. Objectives: Acquire a core knowledge base in emergency medicine, including recognition of life-threatening conditions and initial basic resuscitation. Topics to be covered include (but are not limited to): airway management, CPR, shock

Family Medicine Electives Family Medicine Elective Prerequisite: Fourth-year medical students who have successfully completed their Family Medicine, Internal Medicine, and Pediatric clerkships. Objectives: Improve the student's ability to perform and document a history and physical exam, obtain laboratory evaluations, formulate an appropriate differential diagnosis, develop a provisional diagnosis, and formulate effective management, which includes further diagnostic evaluation, treatment, and rehabilitation programs. Improve the student's ability to monitor the course of illness and

Internal Medicine Electives Ambulatory Care Medicine Elective Prerequisite: Fourth-year medical students who have successfully completed their Family Medicine, Internal Medicine, OB/GYN, and Pediatric clerkships. Availability is limited. Objectives: Become proficient in the comprehensive evaluation/physical exam skills for new patients presenting in the ambulatory setting. Understand the interpretation of laboratory, procedural, and diagnostic data as it relates to ambulatory care. This elective offers students the opportunity to enhance skills in patient management, including initial

Neurology Electives Neurology Elective Prerequisite: Fourth-year medical students who have successfully completed their Internal Medicine clerkship. Availability is limited. Objectives: Become proficient in the comprehensive evaluation/physical exam skills for new patients with neurological disorders. Understand the interpretation of laboratory, procedural, and diagnostic data as it relates to neurological diseases. This elective is offered primarily in the outpatient setting, although in-hospital consultations may be included. Review of neurologic examination and discussion of common

Pathology Electives Pathology Elective Prerequisite: Fourth-year medical students who have successfully completed their Internal Medicine clerkship. Objectives: Complete a review of the basic concepts of pathology and histology through study of disease processes in current and archived patient material. Understand the basic principles and patterns of histopathology used in evaluation of patient specimens in surgical pathology. Demonstrate basic microscopy skills in the areas of cytology, hematology, and urinalysis. Understand the role of autopsy in modern medicine. Develop an appreciation for

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Radiology Electives Radiology Elective Prerequisite: Fourth-year medical students. Objectives: Become familiar with imaging procedures, including indications, limitations, and possible complications. Understand the development of appropriate algorithms or decision steps in applying imaging procedures to the solution of clinical problems. Demonstrate improved skill and confidence in base interpretation of routine cases. This elective includes an overview of diagnostic imaging procedures and interpretation. Emphasis is placed on understanding the indications, contraindications, limitations, and

Research Electives Research Elective Prerequisite: Fourth-year medical students. Objectives: Be able to search the research literature efficiently and use the literature to frame a research project. Understand the process of experimental design and recognize the importance of research design in the success of a project. Be able to determine appropriate statistical analysis techniques for the most widely used experimental designs. Be able to plan and carry out a research project from concept development through data analysis and report writing. Understand and appreciate the complexities of both

Surgery Electives Thoracic Surgery Prerequisite: Fourth Year Medical Student who has completed basic Surgery and Internal Medicine clerkships Objectives: Student will be presented with the clinical working knowledge of cardiac and thoracic disease processes and their management. Student will gain exposure to surgical procedures related to cardiothoracic surgery and become aware of postoperative management of patients. Student will become familiar with pre and post-operative care of thoracic and cardiovascular surgical patients. Students will become acquainted with the use of reliability

“The community is only as good as we make it. To keep it great, we all have to participate.” - Casey Cowell, Traverse City Cowell Family $5 Million Leadership Gift Launches New Cancer Center In late 2011, long-time Traverse City resident Casey Cowell stepped forward with an enormous gift to the community – $5 million for a new cancer center. Munson Medical Center physicians and leaders have identified a cancer center as the next critical need for the region. A new cancer center has been discussed for nearly a decade, but an economic downturn made it challenging to consider a major capital