594 Dr. Kiran C. Patel College of Allopathic Medicine—M.D. Program MDCM 9064—Sports Medicine Elective This two-week elective is designed to give students the opportunity to evaluate and manage the range of sports medicine conditions that present to a busy, private practice, multispecialty, outpatient office. Students will work under the direct supervision of faculty members, medical assistants, and physical therapists. There may be exposure to sports medicine fellows from Nova Southeastern University’s D.O. Sports Medicine Fellowship. Students will be active members of the interdisciplinary team of health care providers who work in an outpatient sports medicine office and will gain exposure to the scope of practice of a sports medicine physician. Plastic Surgery (Direct Patient Care) MDCX 9027—Plastic Surgery Elective This elective will provide an opportunity for students to experience the range of conditions encountered in the fields of adult and pediatric plastic surgery. These range from repair of congenital anomalies (cleft lip and palate, craniosynostosis, vascular malformations) to post-trauma reconstructive surgery and cosmetic plastic surgery procedures in adults. Students will have exposure to residents at some of the hospital sites where operative procedures are performed. Psychiatry (Direct Patient Care) MDCY 9068—Advanced Psychiatry Elective (HCA Florida Aventura Hospital) This elective at Aventura Hospital and Medical Center provides senior medical students with the opportunity to spend four weeks immersed in a psychiatry specialty service. Students will serve as an active member of the clinical team on either the psychiatry consult service, the psychiatry inpatient service, or both. Students will be working under the direct supervision of faculty members and residents. This course is designed to provide a deeper knowledge base and enhanced skill set to students interested in pursuing it to improve clinical skills for treating patients with mental illness. MDCY 9067—Advanced Psychiatry Elective (HCA Florida JFK Hospital) This elective provides senior medical students with the opportunity to spend four weeks immersed in a psychiatry specialty service. Students will serve as an active member of the clinical team on either the psychiatry inpatient service, the partial hospitalization (PHP)/ECT program, or both. Students will be working under the direct supervision of faculty members and residents. This course is designed to provide a deeper knowledge base and enhanced skill set to students interested in pursuing it to improve clinical skills for treating patients with mental illness. Public Health and General Preventive Medicine (No Patient Care) MDEV 9059—Public Health and Informatics Elective The objective of this course is to provide students with exposure to, and experience in, public health and public health informatics. This course will increase students’ medical knowledge regarding basic concepts and common topics in public health. Sample topics that will be covered include outbreak investigation, immunizations, preventive medicine, and interprofessional teamwork. Students will have the opportunity to apply the public health knowledge they have learned to their previous clinical experiences. The course also aims to highlight the importance of following ethical guidelines with respect to public health practice and information. Radiation Oncology (Direct Patient Care) MDCR 9030—Radiation Oncology Elective This course is designed to expose students to the field of radiation oncology, including the opportunity to see both outpatient and inpatient consultations, on-treatment patients, follow-up patients, treatment planning, and SRS/SBRT/HDR brachytherapy procedures performed both in the OR and in Mercy Hospital’s CT simulation room. Urology (Direct Patient Care) MDCW 9033—Urology Elective This course is designed to expose students to the specialty of urology. Students will be able to experience all phases of the evaluation and treatment of the urology patient. Activities will include in-office evaluation; office-based procedures, such as cystoscopy and prostate biopsy; hospital consultations; hands-on experience in the operating room (including robotic surgery and cystoscopy suite); and post-op evaluation. Other Clinical (Direct Patient Care) MDC 9034—Student-Designed Clinical Elective This elective opportunity is for students seeking to design an individualized clinical learning experience in an area not currently offered by NSU MD or through its active affiliations. Students will identify a specific gap in their medical knowledge base/clinical skill set and create a set of learning objectives and clinical experiences related to achieving those goals. Students must identify a clinical supervisor under whose auspices and direct supervision they will work. Students will submit SDCE proposals to the Office of Medical Education for review as early as possible, at least 90 days prior to desired start date, as an affiliation agreement must be developed between NSU MD and the clinical site prior to approval. Students will be notified approximately every two weeks regarding status of their application. Clinical supervisors may not have a conflict of interest in assessing student performance (e.g., no family
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