Major responsibilities
Your major responsibilities are:

• To provide care to patients, and to provide care of the highest quality. Care is provided under appropriate supervision.
• To be there. Unlike other types of education, which are designed primarily for the benefit of the learner, clinical medical education assumes obligations to other persons. These include patients and other health care providers.
• To learn clinical medicine.

Patient-care responsibilities

• Patient load. You will be responsible for the care of the following numbers of patients.
  1. Regular medical services: 2-4 patients
  2. Cardiology: 1-2 patients
  3. MICU: 1 patient
• Admitting patients. You will admit at least one patient every time you are on call. You may also admit on other days, if your patient load permits.
• Patient responsibilities. For each of your patients, you will:
  1. Perform an admission history and physical examination.
  2. Write the admission note.
  3. Write patient orders, including admission orders, daily orders, and any others that may be indicated.
  4. Interview and examine each patient daily.
  5. Write a daily progress note.
  6. Perform clinical procedures, when necessary.
  7. Order tests.
  8. Obtain and record test results.
  9. Discuss the diagnostic and therapeutic plan with the patient and family.
  10. Coordinate care with others on the health care team.

Learning responsibilities

1. Attendance at tutor groups and seminars is required
2. Timely submission of case write-ups
3. Keeping well informed about your patients' clinical conditions, and about internal medicine generally