General Medicine (GMD) School of Medicine

GMD 192 — Internship in General Medicine (1-12 units)

Course Description: Supervised work experience in general medicine.

Prerequisite(s): Upper division standing; approval of project by preceptor prior to internship.

  • Learning Activities: Internship 3-36 hour(s).
  • Repeat Credit: May be repeated 12 unit(s).
  • Grade Mode: Pass/No Pass only.

GMD 291 — Seminars in Human Health Services Research & Clinical Epidemiology (1 unit)

Course Description: Critical review, evaluation, and discussion of research in health services and clinical epidemiology. Presentation of statistical, epidemiologic, and econometric methods. Students present their own research and critique the work of others.

  • Learning Activities: Seminar 1 hour(s).
  • Repeat Credit: May be repeated.
  • Cross Listing: EPI 291.
  • Grade Mode: Satisfactory/Unsatisfactory only.

GMD 460 — General Medicine Consults (1-18 units)

Course Description: Supervised opportunity to see entire spectrum of medical problems encountered by a general internist. Student spends time in General Medicine Clinic and on the General Medicine Consult Service. Consultation Service is particularly concerned with medical evaluation of surgical patients.

Prerequisite(s): Fourth-year medical students with consent of instructor; a general medicine clerkship.

  • Learning Activities: Clinical Activity 1-18 hour(s), Variable 1-18 hour(s).
  • Enrollment Restriction(s): Limited enrollment.
  • Grade Mode: Honors/Pass/Fail.

GMD 470 — Health Care Ethics (3-9 units)

Course Description: Guided independent study of issues in biomedical ethics, with discussion of readings that are based on student interests and needs. Participation in ethics rounds.

Prerequisite(s): Consent of instructor.

  • Learning Activities: Lecture/Discussion 2 hour(s), Discussion/Laboratory 1 hour(s).
  • Cross Listing: NRS 470.
  • Grade Mode: Honors/Pass/Fail.

GMD 485 — Introduction to Health Care Ethics (1 unit)

Course Description: Introduction to concepts and methods of healthcare ethics. Emphasis on problems and methods.

Prerequisite(s): Medical student in good standing.

  • Learning Activities: Lecture.
  • Grade Mode: Honors/Pass/Fail.

GMD 499 — General Medicine Research (1-18 units)

Course Description: Student will be involved in a clinical research problem within the areas, interest and expertise of members of Division of General Internal Medicine. Alternatively,the research effort will be directed toward investigation of a clinical problem of general medical interest.

Prerequisite(s): Consent of instructor.

  • Learning Activities: Discussion 3 hour(s), Clinical Activity 8-40 hour(s).
  • Repeat Credit: May be repeated.
  • Grade Mode: Honors/Pass/Fail.