Danville Regional Medical Center offers the following core electives for medical students:

4th Year Electives:

3rd Year Electives:

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Core electives are subject to change.

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Secondly, the student will be expected to develop familiarity with other procedures through observation rather than performance.

Thirdly, the student should develop a comprehensive understanding of important didactic concepts and principles through self-study and lectures by the anesthesiology department personnel.

• Understand the variety of management strategies for cardiac disease.

• Recognize symptoms of cardiac disease.

• Understand the cardiac effects of pulmonary disease.

• Understand cardiac manifestations of systemic diseases.

• Understand the indications for open-heart surgery.

• Understand the role of somatic dysfunction in cardiac disease.

• Integrate osteopathic manipulative treatment into the management of patients with cardiac disease.

• Perform a preoperative cardiac assessment.

• Understand electrolyte and acid-base disturbances.

• Understand the etiology and diagnosis of nephritic diseases.

• Diagnose and manage common medical disorders of the kidney.

• Utilize pharmacologic agents appropriately in patients with renal disease.

• Screen appropriately for colorectal cancer.

• Understand the role of osteopathic principles and treatment in the diagnosis and management of gastrointestinal disease.

• Understand the indications for surgery in gastrointestinal disease.

• Manage uncomplicated diseases of the gastrointestinal system.

• Diagnose and manage common infectious diseases.

• Understand the epidemiology of infectious diseases.

• Appreciate the role of the health care team in the control of infectious disease.

• Understand the role of the immune system in health and disease.

• Understand the role of antibacterial, anti-fungal, and anti-viral agents in the management of infectious disease.

• Understand and utilize appropriate pharmacologic interventions.

• Understand electrolyte and acid-base disturbances.

• Understand the etiology and diagnosis of nephritic diseases.

• Diagnose and manage common medical disorders of the kidney.

• Utilize pharmacologic agents appropriately in patients with renal disease.

• Diagnose and manage common disorders of the nervous system.

• Understand the role osteopathic manipulation plays in the management of patients with neurologic disorders.

• Diagnosis and manage common ophthalmologic conditions that may present to the family physician's office.

• Diagnose and manage corneal lesions.

• Remove a foreign body from the eye.

• Diagnose and manage common orthopedic conditions that patients may present in the physician's office.

• Integrate osteopathic manipulative treatment into the management of orthopedic disorders.

• Perform a preoperative pulmonary assessment..

• Diagnose and manage common pulmonary diseases.

• Understand the role of osteopathic manipulation in the treatment of pulmonary disease..

• Develop skills in identifying signs and symptoms of urological diseases..

• Develop clinical skills in formulating a differential and provide management of the patient.

• Perform a rapid and accurate assessment of the overall status of a patient in an emergent situation.

• Formulate a differential diagnosis for the most common emergent conditions.

• Understand the role of osteopathic manipulation in treating the whole patient in the assessment and management of emergent patients including cultural, social, spiritual, family, and behavioral considerations.

• Develop skills to perform a comprehensive geriatric medical and social history using all available sources of information.

• Develop skills to conduct a comprehensive physical examination.

• Understand appropriate use of osteopathic manipulative therapy in the treatment of the elderly.

• Understand and utilize appropriate pharmacologic interventions.

To provide the student, through didactic and clinical experiences in outpatient and inpatient settings, with educational experiences that will expand his/her knowledge and skills in the management of obstetrical patients and patients with gynecologic problems.

• Manage low risk obstetrical patients in the inpatient and outpatient setting.

• Recognize early signs and symptoms of fetal and/or maternal distress during pregnancy.

• Seek appropriate preventive or corrective measures to insure the health and safety of both the fetus and the mother.

• Recognize medical and surgical problems in the obstetrical patient.

• Manage common gynecologic problems.

• Integrate the use of osteopathic manipulative treatment in the management of obstetrics and gynecologic disorders.

• Obtain appropriate consultation.

• Develop basic knowledge of growth and development of children from birth to adolescence.

• Develop communication skills to facilitate the clinical interaction with children.

• Develop skills that will help the student to rapidly assess the pediatric patient and to rapidly formulate a differential diagnosis.

• Develop skills to perform a psychiatric history.

• Develop decision-making skills and patient management skills.

• Demonstrate a complete pre-surgical history.

• Perform a focused examination as it relates to the presenting surgical condition

• Generate a differential for the most common surgical conditions

• Develop a management plan.

• Perform soft tissue, indirect, and muscle energy techniques when and as appropriate on post-operative cases.

• Provide evidence-based care to medically underserved patients in a variety of settings including but not limited to:

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  •   Hospital inpatient care

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  •   Outpatient fee for service clinics

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  •   The Free Clinic of Danville