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Divisional Staff precept residents and interns in the afternoon General Medicine Clinic at King-Drew Center and also at Hubert H. Humphrey Comprehensive Health Center. The clinic at Humphrey is unique and uses a model of care called the "firm model" that involves the entire staff in the totality of care for the patient. Three full time faculty members work in that clinic. In addition, two faculty members are certified in Geriatrics and work in the Geriatric clinics at HHHCHC supervising residents. A Hypertension clinic is staffed at Humphrey and "T.H.E." clinic by one of our faculty members. Medical Students are precepted in the Imperial Heights Clinic.
General Medical Consults
The Division provides consultation for the various other hospital departments. Most consults are from Neurosurgery, Surgery, Psychiatry and Emergency Medicine. A majority of these are from Psychiatry or are for surgical clearance. This is vital to both these departments and also to the Department of Internal Medicine. Medical Consultation involves interfacing with other departments and as such represents the strengths of Internal Medicine and serves as a primary teaching vehicle for the art of consultation. Consultation is both an art and a science and the Division has created curricula and innovative methods of teaching medical consultation. Teaching is also geared to utilize Internal Medicine board type questions or studies.
Ward Attending
Excellence as a ward attending requires an extensive general internal medicine foundation and not simply knowledge of one subspecialty area. The residents and interns are made to see the patient as a "whole" and that they are the primary providers who may coordinate consultants but that the primary responsibility for the patient rests with the Internist. Work rounds occur daily and teaching rounds which expand on a particular case, topic or pathophysiology of a particular disease occurs at least three times weekly. In addition to attending on the medical wards, some faculty members from the Division also attend on the Geriatrics wards and are responsible for much of the coverage provided to the Medical Intensive Care Unit.
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