- Altoona Family Physicians Inpatient Medicine Service - 1 month
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- One to two senior residents and three Interns
- Supervise the interns and second-year resident
- Daily teaching and interdisciplinary rounds
- Run codes and rapid responses
- Perform admissions
- Emergency Medicine - 1 month
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- Work with the attendings in the ED for triage and disposition of patients
- Level II Trauma Center, stroke center, and cardiac center
- Work a variety of shifts
- ENT/Ophthalmology/Urology
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Work with local specialists in each of these areas in inpatient and outpatient settings.
- Transitional Care Medicine and Health Quality Literacy - 1 month
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- Work with health care registries and measures to improve health care quality
- Assist the night float team with their responsibilities in the evenings
- See hospital follow up patients in the office
- Night Float - 2 weeks
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- Supervise the intern and second-year resident on all services
- Perform admissions
- Run codes and rapid responses
- 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 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
- Option to rotate at Children's Hospital of Pittsburgh
- Cardiology and Pulmonology - 1 month
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- Two weeks of each
- Work with local cardiologists and pulmonologists in the inpatient and outpatient settings
- Rural - 1 month
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Spend time seeing patients at our rural outpatient office in Williamsburg
- Elective - 14 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