Four Hamilton seniors and one junior are participating in a week-long internship working with medical residents in the St. Elizabeth Family Practice Residency program in Utica. Hamilton's Coordinator of Health Professions Advising Leslie North set up the program, and this is the third group of Hamilton students to participate. The student interns are Leann Brigham '09, Bryden Considine '08, Michael Gregg '08, Tamar Nobel '08 and Jenney Stringer '08.
The internship, "A Week in the Life of a Resident," offers students an opportunity to see clinical medicine practiced in a diverse community. Students work with a different resident every day, spending one day each in surgery, a family practice clinic, pediatrics, obstetrics and internal medicine. Each day starts at 7 a.m. with Morning Report and students also participate in Grand Rounds with the residents. "Not only do the residents offer the Hamilton students a great look at clinical medicine, but they demonstrate the personal skills required to be successful with patients," said North.
North explained that each year the insurance and privacy rules make it harder for Hamilton students to find out if they have the human skills required to practice medicine, and this program offers them a short, intense experience that is very enlightening. Hamilton provides the hospital with a certificate of insurance and students provide all their health and immunization records, sign a confidentiality statement and go through an orientation program.
Eighteen Hamilton students applied for the program, and the Health Professions Advisory Committee chose the five interns on the basis of seniority, maturity and suitability.
The internship, "A Week in the Life of a Resident," offers students an opportunity to see clinical medicine practiced in a diverse community. Students work with a different resident every day, spending one day each in surgery, a family practice clinic, pediatrics, obstetrics and internal medicine. Each day starts at 7 a.m. with Morning Report and students also participate in Grand Rounds with the residents. "Not only do the residents offer the Hamilton students a great look at clinical medicine, but they demonstrate the personal skills required to be successful with patients," said North.
North explained that each year the insurance and privacy rules make it harder for Hamilton students to find out if they have the human skills required to practice medicine, and this program offers them a short, intense experience that is very enlightening. Hamilton provides the hospital with a certificate of insurance and students provide all their health and immunization records, sign a confidentiality statement and go through an orientation program.
Eighteen Hamilton students applied for the program, and the Health Professions Advisory Committee chose the five interns on the basis of seniority, maturity and suitability.
