Hospitalist - LHSC
Contact person: | Dr. Paul Dulay, LHSC |
This elective rotation at LHSC under the Subacute Medicine program will provide experience in the management of a mixture of acute, subacute, and chronic in-patients in the Department of Medicine.
The opportunities, responsibilities and goals of this elective consist of:
- Admitting subacute patients directly from the Emergency Room, in collaboration with Senior Medicine Resident
- Transferring subacute patients from other services (Medicine, Surgery, Psychiatry)
- Participating in multidisciplinary rounds bi-weekly (allied health, home care, nursing etc)
- Performing relevant procedures such as paracenteses and minor skin procedures
- 1 week-end of on-call involving rounding (approximately 09:00 - 12:00 Saturday and Sunday, home call remainder of week-end), plus additional call if interested
- Learning management of acute, subacute, and chronic medical conditions and, if interested, management of low-acuity mental health in-patients under Hospitalist for Mental Health service (new as of 2019)
- Exposure to daily lunch teaching rounds offered by clinical teaching units as well as Department of Medicine Grand Rounds on Fridays at noon