Clerkship Director:
Sarah Pickle, MD
Email: picklesr@ucmail.uc.edu

Clerkship Coordinator:
Nancy Jamison
Office: Medical Sciences Building Room 4304
Phone: 513-558-1435
Email: nancy.jamison@uc.edu

The Family Medicine third-year clerkship is a required four-week outpatient rotation. Students are placed in a community or residency site and become an integral part of the health care team. The clerkship emphasizes strengthening competencies in history taking, physical examination skills, problem differentiation, disease prevention and management, written and oral presentations. In applying these basic skills the student will develop an understanding of the importance of the concept of a medical home in patient care: comprehensive, patient-centered, longitudinal primary care. Working one-on-one with family physicians, students will integrate knowledge of the basic sciences with the biopsychosocial factors that critically impact a patient’s experience of illness and health in the care of the patient.

Clerkship Director:
LeAnn Coberly, MD
Email: leann.coberly@uc.edu

Clerkship Coordinator:
Gabriela Ionascu
Office: Medical Sciences Building Room 6055
Phone: 513-558-2592
Email: ionascgi@ucmail.uc.edu

The Internal Medicine third-year clerkship is an eight-week rotation consisting of four weeks on an inpatient service and four weeks in ambulatory care. Our goal is to help students make the transition from a basic science student to a member of the health care team. On the inpatient service, students are assigned to general internal medicine and subspecialty ward teams and given patient care responsibility commensurate for their level of training under the supervision of interns, senior residents and attending physicians. The educational emphasis is on history and physical examination skills and assessing and prioritizing multiple medical problems. In the ambulatory setting, students are given significant patient-care responsibility in the Student Clinic, community preceptor office, and in an Internal Medicine subspecialty clinic.

Clerkship Director:

Starla Wise, MD
Email: wises3@ucmail.uc.edu

Clerkship Coordinator:
Angela Bustamante
Office: Stetson
Phone: 513-558-2968
Email: bustamam@ucmail.uc.edu

The Neuroscience third-year clerkship is a four-week rotation consisting of two weeks of an adult neurology experience (inpatient/consults or outpatient) and two weeks of a neurology specialty experience (e.g. pediatric neurology, physical medicine & rehabilitation, and more). This clerkship is designed to train physicians to approach neurological disease in a step-by-step fashion that helps them to accurately diagnose common neurological problems (both life-threatening and not) by developing excellent history taking and physical exam skills, utilizing diagnostic tests skillfully and improving patient outcomes by selecting treatments that are effective, safe and not wasteful of people’s money.

Clerkship Director:
Jane Morris, MD
Email: morri4j9@ucmail.uc.edu

Clerkship Coordinator:
Natalie Cassady
Office: Medical Sciences Building Room 4461
Phone: 513-558-7653
Email: cassadnc@ucmail.uc.edu

The Obstetrics and Gynecology third-year clerkship is a six-week rotation that consists of four weeks of inpatient care and two weeks of ambulatory care. The inpatient service is equally divided between obstetrics and gynecology at one of six hospitals in the Tristate. The obstetrics portion may consist of normal labor and delivery, high-risk obstetrics (maternal fetal medicine) or routine prenatal care. Gynecology may include benign gynecology, gynecologic oncology or reproductive endocrinology and infertility. The objective of the curriculum in obstetrics and gynecology is that the student learns the basic skills, attitudes and knowledge that are essential in dealing with women patients and learns how to apply the science of medicine in a caring and compassionate manner so as to benefit the patient.

Clerkship Director:
Corinne Lehmann, MD
Email: corinne.lehmann@uc.edu

Clerkship Coordinator:
Mimi Pence
Office: Kasota 553 (Cincinnati Children’s Burnet Campus)
Phone: 513-636-0339
Email: mimi.pence@cchmc.org

The Pediatrics third-year clerkship is an eight-week clinical rotation designed to present the fundamentals of pediatrics which should be mastered by any physician, as well as to provide a sound foundation for those choosing to enter the specialty. Clinical experience is split between four weeks of inpatient and four weeks of outpatient medicine. During the inpatient experience, students will rotation on Hospital Medicine (general inpatient pediatrics) and a subspecialty service (e.g. hematology/oncology, nephrology, etc.).  During the outpatient experience, students will rotate in an outpatient general pediatrics office as well as rotate in the newborn nursery and spend some days in subspecialty clinics.  This clerkship is a specialty of medicine dealing with the physical, mental, and psychosocial health of infants, children, and adolescents. The primary expectation of this clerkship is achievement of the competencies of an adapted curriculum developed by the Council on Medical Student Education in Pediatrics (COMSEP).

Clerkship Director:
Peirce Johnston, MD
Email: peirce.johnston@uc.edu

Clerkship Coordinator:
Sonya Kirkland 
Email: kirklasy@ucmail.uc.edu

The Psychiatry third-year clerkship is a six-week rotation in which each student is actively involved in patient care on two inpatient units, while spending some days in an outpatient clinic and the Psychiatric Emergency Room. The overarching clerkship objective is to provide medical students with a broad clinical exposure and greater understanding of the epidemiology, presentation, evaluation and treatment of common psychiatric disorders. Two consecutive three-week rotations working on an inpatient psychiatric unit allow the students to care for patients in acute crises as a part of a multidisciplinary treatment team. At the conclusion of the clerkship, students are able to elicit a psychiatric history, mental status examination and formulate a comprehensive treatment plan that incorporates the biologic, psychotherapeutic and social needs of their patients.

Clerkship Director:
Latifa Silski, MD
Email: sagesila@ucmail.uc.edu

Clerkship Coordinator:
Nicole Norman
Office: Medical Sciences Building Room 1586
Phone: 513-558-2134
Email:normanno@ucmail.uc.edu

The Surgery third-year clerkship is an eight-week inpatient rotation. Students spend four weeks on a core surgery service (e.g. trauma, acute care surgery, etc.) and four weeks on a specialty surgery service (e.g. urology, plastics, ortho, etc.). During that time, students will be an integral part of the surgical team, be responsible for patient care, and will participate in surgical procedures. The activities of general surgeons and surgeons in specialty fields will be experienced firsthand in both inpatient and outpatient settings. The students will learn basic surgical techniques and wound management. Upon clerkship completion, students are expected to understand the basics of surgical disease processes, as well as the decision making used to manage surgical patients.

Clerkship Directors:
John Campbell, MD
Email: campbejb@ucmail.uc.edu

Clerkship Coordinator:
Caitlyn Hadsell
Office: Medical Sciences Building Room 1551D
Phone: 513-558-5552
Email: hadselcn@ucmail.uc.edu

The Emergency Medicine Specialty Clerkship exposes the student to a wide variety of acutely ill patients presenting to an urban emergency department. Time on the clerkship is divided between several distinct areas in the emergency department, each offering a different mix of patient types and supervising personnel. Eight and twelve-hour shifts are spent working in the main emergency department (A-pod, C-pod) seeing patients with acute medical, surgical, gynecologic, neurologic and toxicologic presentations. This portion of the clerkship allows the student to participate in the initial evaluation of patients with unknown diagnoses and exercise skills in physical diagnosis, history taking, performance and interpretation of diagnostic tests, oral presentation, formulation of differential diagnoses and clinical reasoning. Students will have the opportunity to participate in the performance of procedures such as venipuncture, arterial puncture and passage of nasogastric tubes and urinary drainage catheters. Students also will be exposed to critically ill patients in the Shock/Resuscitation Unit of the department. Several 10-hour shifts are spent in the Minor Care area of the department. Minor Care serves patients with focused complaints who generally can be definitively treated in the emergency department, or referred for outpatient treatment following temporizing emergency department management. The Minor Care portion of the clerkship allows the student to participate in a broad variety of procedures including local anesthesia, wound debridement and suturing, splinting, conscious sedation, incision and drainage of abscesses and slit-lamp evaluation of the eye.

Clerkship Director:
Ashley Soaper, MD
Email: ashley.soaper@cchmc.org

Clerkship Co-Director:
Catherine Hart, M.D.
Email: Catherine.Hart@cchmc.org

Clerkship Coordinator:
Angie Keith
Office: Medical Sciences Building Room 6413
Phone: 513-558-5391
Email: keithae@ucmail.uc.edu

During the Otolaryngology Specialty Clerkship, students will gain exposure to the wide range of ear, nose and throat diseases treated by the otolaryngologist. Each student will learn the appropriate history and examination techniques for head and neck diseases. Students will learn the diagnosis and management of a variety of common otolaryngologic disorders, including otitis media, hearing loss, rhinitis, sinusitis, and cancer of the head and neck. In addition, specific otolaryngologic emergencies such as airway obstruction, epistaxis and facial trauma will be covered. Students will participate in the day-to-day activities of the otolaryngologic team including inpatient and outpatient care and observe surgery. The experience will be divided between UC Medical Center, Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center and the Cincinnati Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) Medical Center.

Clerkship Director:
Amy Guiot, MD
Email: amy.guiot@cchmc.org

Clerkship Coordinator:
Mimi Pence
Office: 3333 Burnet Ave, MLC 3009
Phone: 513-636-0339
Email: mimi.pence@cchmc.org

The student will participate in all clinical activities of the Division of Human Genetics including dysmorphology and genetic assessments of infants and children, inpatient consults, genetic counseling, prenatal diagnosis, outreach and specialty clinics. Structure will be one week inpatient with consults and one week outpatient with clinics.

Clerkship Director:
Amy Guiot, MD
Email: amy.guiot@cchmc.org

Clerkship Coordinator:
Mimi Pence
Office: 3333 Burnet Ave, MLC 3009
Phone: 513-636-0339
Email: mimi.pence@cchmc.org

This rotation is designed to give students exposure to a breadth of developmental and behavioral topics. Students will participate in multi-disciplinary team evaluations of children with neurodevelopmental disabilities, including autism spectrum disorder, intellectual disability, and genetic syndromes. Students will observe and have opportunities to develop their skills in taking comprehensive developmental histories, completing physical exams on children with developmental delays, understanding medication management of symptoms of developmental diagnoses, and connecting families with both hospital-based and community resources.

Clerkship Director:
Amy Guiot, MD
Email: amy.guiot@cchmc.org

Clerkship Coordinator:
Mimi Pence
Office: 3333 Burnet Ave, MLC 3009
Phone: 513-636-0339
Email: mimi.pence@cchmc.org

This two-week observational experience serves to expose students to pediatric physical medicine and rehabilitation.  Students will rotate through a variety of outpatient clinics to explore pediatric rehab (e.g. cerebral palsy, brain injury, spinal cord injury, spina bifida, neuromuscular, cancer rehab)