Clerkships in Internal Medicine

All three of our programs in Internal Medicine sponsor clerkships. Click on the links below for more details. Oakland San Francisco Santa Clara Also remember to review our general policies before you contact our residency coordinators regarding available clerkship dates. Thank you for your interest in our programs, and we hope to hear from you soon.

Oakland Internal Medicine Clerkships

Welcome to the Oakland Clerkship page! We have a very active clerkship program and include medical students in every aspect of their patient’s care. Medical students have lively small group sessions each week with our program director, Dr. Michael Clement, and the chief residents. Our residents enjoy the additional teaching opportunity and camaraderie the students add to the team.

We have 4th year medical students on:

• general medicine wards
• cardiology
• critical care
• pulmonary
• rheumatology
• hematology/oncology
• nephrology
• infectious diseases
• gastroenterology
• neurology

Medical students have direct patient care responsibilities and attend teaching conferences including:

• daily reports
• noon conferences
• inpatient teaching rounds
• journal club and chiefs rounds

For more information regarding clerkships at our program, please contact Joy Gundersen, GME Coordinator at (510) 752-6126 or e-mail her at medicine.oakmeded@kp.org.

To apply, please complete our clerkship application forms.

For domestic medical students: Oakland IM Clerkship Application (pdf)

For international medical students: Oakland IM Clerkship Application (FMG) (pdf)

San Francisco Internal Medicine Clerkships

We welcome fourth year medical students as subinterns on our wards. We attach one student to each team and allow the student as much responsibility as he or she can handle. Most students can handle four or five patients at a time, but we allow them more patients if they wish or fewer if they find that more comfortable. The student subintern participates in every activity of the resident staff teaching program. The subintern is encouraged to attend the ‘morning residents' report between 8:00 a.m. and 9:00 a.m. The remainder of the morning is occupied by patient care and work rounds with the resident. Every weekday, there is a formal lecture (noon conference) held from 12:45 p.m. to 1:45 p.m. Following that, an attending internist joins the ward team for teaching rounds (1 hour). Each Wednesday, there are intern rounds, specifically covering areas that interns have problems with in Medicine. The subintern attends these rounds. The on-call rotation is every fifth night.

We particularly encourage students to apply for subinternships if they have any intention of considering us in the National Residency Matching Program. This gives us a chance to get to know each other. We do not offer subinternships in July when we are acclimating the new group of first-year Interns.

CARDIOLOGY - Visiting Medical Student Clerkship

We are able to offer to a limited number of fourth year medical students a one month rotation with the Department of Cardiology through the Internal Medicine Residency. Such an experience would involve participation in Cardiology CCU rounds, Cardiology inpatient consults, and all of the teaching experiences offered by the Internal Medicine Residency Program. Optional experiences would include EKG readings, ECHO review with staff Cardiologists, weekly Cardiology cath conferences.

Students would develop the following skills through participation in this elective experience:

Develop the ability to perform a directed cardiac history and accurate bedside cardiac physical examination. Formulate assessment of cardiac problems and order appropriate diagnostic procedures. Understand utilization and beginning interpretation of treadmill testing, thallium treadmill and persantine treadmill testing, echocardiograms, nuclear cardiac studies, cardiac catheterizations, and electrophysiologic testing. Assess risks and benefits of relevant diagnostic procedures.

Topics to be discussed include the management of acute myocardial infarction, management of cardiogenic shock, management of valvular heart disease, management of congestive heart failure, management of malignant cardiac arrhythmias, and indications for cardiovascular surgery and percutaneous coronary intervention.

For more information, please contact:

Helen Lee, Kaiser Permanente Residency Program Coordinator
Internal Medicine Residency Program
Kaiser Permanente San Francisco Medical Center
2425 Geary Boulevard/Room M-160
San Francisco, CA 94115-3395
Phone: (415) 833-3034, Fax: (415) 833-4983
Helen.I.Lee@kp.org

Santa Clara Internal Medicine Clerkships

Santa Clara's Internal Medicine Department offers a 4 week ward inpatient clerkship to qualified 4th year medical students interested in pursuing a career in internal medicine.

Requesting a Clerkship at Santa Clara

In order to begin your request for clerkship, please contact the program coordinator to check for the availability of clerkships on the dates you request. If the dates are available, please complete our application form (pdf)and submit the form and all requested documentation back to our program as soon as possible.

PLEASE NOTE:
No clerkships will be scheduled for the months of June and July.
Applications must be submitted no less than four weeks prior to requested start date.
No changes up to four weeks before your scheduled start date.

For information regarding clerkships, please contact Susan Krause, GME Coordinator at (408) 851-3836 or e-mail her at susan.krause@kp.org.