MS4 Catalog

Neuroscience Care Delivery

LOCATION: Berkeley Medical Center; WVU Medicine Brain and Spine OP Clinics
PRECEPTOR: John R. Caruso, MD, FACS, FAANS
DURATION: 2-4 weeks
OFFERED: Intermittently (by arrangement)
MAXIMUM ENROLLMENT: 1
STATUS: Elective

OBJECTIVES:

This is a Neurosurgery elective will focus on collaboration between neurosurgery, neurology, and rehabilitation pain management. This is designed for those on the primary care track to gain a better understanding as to what imaging needs to be ordered and when, as well as which specialty to refer to and when to refer. This course would provide the student with a set of clinical and diagnostic skills and give them the ability to manage musculoskeletal conditions in a relevant fashion.

Patient Care:

  • Obtain an accurate and complete medical history and perform a focused, accurate physical examination for neurological
  • Communicate effectively while demonstrating compassion and
  • Make informed decisions based on patient information and preferences in developing management
  • Be actively involved in the care of patients, and expected to participate in developing treatment options and seeing these
  • Work with other sub-specialists to provide interdisciplinary patient-focused
  • Expect to be part of the Patient care team in both the inpatient and out- patient

Medical Knowledge:

  • Learn a spectrum of neuromuscular conditions and how physicians approach these
  • Know and apply the basic and clinically supportive sciences needed to address patient symptoms with neurological issues from the perspective of a primary care
  • Interpret the results of patient history, radiographic studies, and physical examination
  • Retrieve, manage and critically appraise sources of medical information and research for lifelong learning.
  • Be an "active" learner by identifying and sharing knowledge that benefits patients and the team of health care
  • Learn the initial management of problems that range from spinal pain to brain
  • Understand how to read x-rays, CT scans, MRl's and other imaging modalities, as this is key to learning treatment options and sub-specialty roles in providing quality

Practice-Based Learning:

  • Students will work closely with Neurosurgeons, Psychiatrists, lnterventional Pain Management, and
  • Analyze practice experience and improve practice using a systematic
  • Locate, appraise and assimilate evidence from scientific
  • Obtain and use information about one's own patients as well as the larger population from which patients
  • Use information technology to research and manage
  • Facilitate the learning of other medical students and health care

Communication Skills:

  • Create and sustain a therapeutic and ethically sound relationship with
  • Use effective listening skills and effectively elicit and use
  • Work effectively with others as a member of a neuroscience healthcare
  • Counsel and educate patients and their
  • Work with health care professionals to provide patient-focused
  • Communicate effectively with all members of healthcare
  • Practice legible, comprehensive and focused write-ups complete with differentials and treatment
  • Respect the expertise of others and collaborate effectively with all members of the healthcare team.

Professionalism:

  • Demonstrate a commitment to ethical principles, including provision or withholding of care, confidentiality, informed consent, and business practices
  • Demonstrate sensitivity and responsiveness to patients' culture, age, gender, race, ethnicity, religious beliefs, sexual orientation and disabilities
  • Demonstrate a continuing commitment to excellence and life-long
  • Advocate for best practices among colleagues, other health professionals and for the profession of medicine

Systems-Based Practice: 

Identify surgical and nonsurgical interventions appropriate to manage complex patients.

EXAMINATION PROCEDURES AND EVALUATION CRITERIA:

Formative Assessment: Direct observation and direct feedback

Summative Assessment: Written clinical performance evaluation. Grading will be pass/fail.

PRIOR TO THE FIRST DAY OF THE ROTATION: