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- Altoona Family Physicians Inpatient Medicine Service - 1 month
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- One to two senior residents and three Interns
- Supervise the interns
- Daily teaching and interdisciplinary rounds
- Run codes and rapid responses
- Perform admissions
- Dermatology - 1 month
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- Work closely with three local dermatologists
- Perform full skin exams and a variety of skin procedures
- Assist with Moh’s surgery
- Geriatrics - 1 month
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- Rotate with the palliative medicine service in the inpatient and outpatient settings
- Work at local skilled nursing facilities
- Gynecology - 1 month
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- Work with our community gynecologists
- Staff the Women’s Health and Wellness Center
- Outpatient and surgical experience
- ICU - 1 month
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- Includes Surgical/Trauma ICU, Cardiothoracic ICU, Medical ICU, and a Neurological ICU
- Perform procedures such as intubation, central line placement, arterial line placement, chest tube insertion, foley catheterization, and others
- Work closely with intensivists and participate in daily interdisciplinary rounds
- Night Float - 6 weeks
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- Supervise the intern on all services
- Perform admissions
- Run codes and rapid responses
- Obstetrics - 1 month
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- Divided into alternating shifts of inpatient Labor and Delivery and outpatient responsibilities at the Pregnancy Care Center and Pregnancy Recovery Center
- First assist on cesarean deliveries
- AFP delivers 600 to 700 babies per year
- Orthopedics - 1 month
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- Work with two local orthopedic groups
- Perform joint injections and musculoskeletal focused physical exams
- Able to work with Altoona Curve (AA affiliate of Pittsburgh Pirates)
- Work with family physicians who have completed sports medicine fellowships
- Work in a dedicated musculoskeletal clinic in our family medicine office to learn point-of-care ultrasound
- Pediatrics - 1 month
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- One senior resident and one to two interns
- Typically coordinate care for 10 to 14 pediatric patients on service
- Admit all pediatric patients
- See pediatric patients in outpatient clinics and attend pediatric cardiology clinic
- Daily Teaching from local pediatricians
- Perform newborn exams
- Supervise intern
- Perform circumcisions
- Practice Management - 1 month
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- Work with office managers and coding experts at two community family medicine offices
- Perform a chart audit on 25 of your charts
- Work closely with a practice management faculty member
- Elective - 6 weeks
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- Can choose from a wide variety of electives offered at UPMC Altoona as well as throughout the entire UPMC system
- Can arrange international electives