Weekly schedule

Weekly Schedule

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Daily schedule

Each site makes its own schedule. In general, the day begins at about 7 AM and finishes at about 6 PM. If you are on call, you should plan on staying on the hospital floor until about 11 PM. Sleeping facilities are provided for students on call at the affiliate sites.

Transportation to and from the affiliate sites is provided for the morning and afternoon, but not for the night or weekends.

Attendance at rounds, patient sessions, seminars, conferences and meetings with tutors is required.


Weekends

The clerkship continues during weekends.

At New York Presbyterian Hospital on Medicine Services

1. Round on Saturday morning. If you are not on call, you can leave after rounds are complete and you have finished the work pertaining to your patients.
2. Round on Sunday morning only if you are on call Sunday, or if you were on call Saturday.
3. If you are on call on Saturday or Sunday, the day behaves like a weekday.

At Affiliates: each site makes its own schedule.
During Cardiology/MICU blocks: no weekend call


Calendar.

The clerkship lasts for 12 weeks and is offered 4 times each year. The dates of the modules are as follows:

Quarter 1, Block A:	July 5-28, 2006
Quarter 1, Block B:	July 31-Aug 25, 2006
Quarter 1, Block C:	Aug 28-Sept 22, 2006
Quarter 2, Block A:	Sept 25-Oct 20, 2006
Quarter 2, Block B:	Oct 23-Nov 17, 2006
Quarter 2, Block C:	Nov 20-Dec 15, 2006
Quarter 3, Block A:	Jan 2-Jan 26, 2007
Quarter 3, Block B:	Jan 29-Feb 23, 2007
Quarter 3, Block C:	Feb 26-Mar 22, 2007
Quarter 4, Block A:	Apr 2-27, 2007
Quarter 4, Block B:	Apr 30-May 25, 2007
Quarter 4, Block C:	May 29-June 22, 2007

Holidays.

You are excused from work on official Cornell holidays:

• Labor Day - September 4, 2006
• Thanksgiving - November 23-26, 2006
• Winter Recess - December 16, 2006-January 1, 2007
• Martin Luther King, Jr - January 15, 2007
• Presidents' Day - February 19, 2007
• Spring Recess - March 24-April 1, 2007
• Memorial Day - May 28, 2007

Religious observances

The Weill Cornell policy regarding religious observances may be found in the Student Handbook. In brief, you are excused from responsibilities for the purpose of religious observances. We will make every reasonable effort to accommodate your requests and to provide you with an opportunity to make up any missed work or information.


What happens in a typical day on the Medicine services

1. Pre-rounds (about 7 am): you will see your own patients. See how they did overnight, check their vital signs, see if any new notes were written since you saw them last.
   
   
2. Work rounds (about 7:15 am): round with the PGY2 resident, two PGY1 residents (interns), and the students assigned to them. You will see all patients managed by this unit.
   
   
3. Attending rounds (time varies): the entire team meets with the attending physician(s). The purpose of attending rounds is to choose 1-2 cases and discuss them from a scientific and educational perspective.
   
   
4. Noon: there is often an educational event, such as a seminar, scheduled for this time slot. Some events are for housestaff, some for students, and some for both. Sometimes food is provided at housestaff conferences. As supplies may be limited, it is best to ask whether medical students are invited to partake, or not.
   
   
5. Tutor group: you will typically meet with the tutor 3 times a week.
   
   
6. Chart rounds: at New York-Presbyterian Hospital, the PGY2, PGY1 and student meet in the afternoon to review each patient's progress during the day, to analyze clinical data, and to make a plan for the next day.
   
   
7. Sign-out rounds: at the end of the day, you will meet with the on-call team to summarize each patient very briefly, to request any services that are needed (e.g., "please check cardiac enzymes at 10 pm"), and to outline potential if-then scenarios ("if the patient develops a new fever, add vancomycin.")
   
   

Other seminars and conferences may also occur. During unscheduled times, you will see your patients, perform procedures, write notes, etc.

Schedule in the Medical Intensive Care Unit at New York Presbyterian Hospital

1. The MICU rotation at NYPH is organized into two shifts:
   
   
   • Morning shift: 8 AM-4 PM
   • Evening shift: 2 PM-10 PM
   
   
   
2. The MICU rotation at NYPH lasts 2 weeks. During this time, students spend one week on the morning shift, and one week on the evening shift.
   
   
3. There is a didactic seminar each weekday at 2 PM. Students in the morning shift will generally go home at the end of this seminar. Students in the evening shift will begin their work at the beginning of this seminar, then continue to 10 PM.
   
   
4. Students rotating through the Critical Care Unit at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center will work 8 AM-5 PM and will attend the seminars at NYPH.