Critical Care Acting Internship
The Critical Care Acting Internship is a four-week required clerkship that takes place within one of the Northwell Health System's Hospitals. As part of our goal to better prepare students for residency, students can choose to rotate through the Medical ICU, the Surgical ICU, the Pediatric ICU, the Neonatal ICU or the Neurosurgical ICU. The students have primary responsibility for patients under the direct supervision of an attending, fellow or resident. In these settings, the student has an opportunity to learn from and gain first-hand clinical experience in the care of medically complex patients. The students are expected to assume the role of an incoming intern with the help of senior residents, fellows and attendings.
General questions can be directed to somprepres[@]hofstra.edu.
- Critical Care Acting Internship: Goals
Goals
- To equip students with the knowledge, skills, and attitudes necessary to understand the multi-organ system and multi-disciplinary approach to caring for critically ill patients.
- To provide students with an authentic role in caring for critically ill patients, under the direction and supervision of a resident, fellow, and an attending physician.
- Clinical Presentations
By interacting with patients, student accomplish the following:
- Describe an approach to evaluating a patient with the "clinical presentation"
- Describe the differential diagnosis for a patient presenting with the "clinical presentation"
- Describe the historical features, epidemiology of disease physical exam findings, diagnostic strategies and treatment for the most common diagnoses associated with the "clinical presentation"
- Compare and contrast illness scripts
- Describe prevention strategies for patients presenting with the "clinical presentation"
- For procedures, demonstrate the ability to perform the procedure and to know the indications, contraindications
Clinical Presentations
A: Assist P: Perform- Acute Myocardial Infarction or ACS (P)
- Cardiac/Respiratory Arrest (A)
- Coma/Impaired Consciousness (P)
- Joint Pain (knee, shoulder, hip, neck and back) (P)
- Nosocomial Infection (P)
- Shock/Sepsis (P)
- ~Procedure: Central Catheter Placement (A)
- ~Procedure: 12-Lead EKG Placement (P)
- ~Procedure: IV Placement (P)
- ~Procedure: Venipuncture (P)
- ~Procedure: Ventilator adjustment (A)
- Assessment Methods
Assessment Methods
Students are assessed in a variety of ways to generate a grade in the Critical Care Acting Internship. As a faculty member or resident who is responsible for supervising a student, you will be expected to complete a “Clinical Assessment of Student” form. The questions/anchors can be found on the Second 100 Weeks assessment page.