Medicine

Degrees and Certificates

Courses

MDR 820: Ambulatory Internal Medicine

Credits 2
The ambulatory block rotation serves to enhance the medical student’s knowledge and skills in caring for the ambulatory medical patient. Students will primarily be seeing patients which are new to the outpatient clinic, addressing preventive screening as well as care of chronic conditions such as diabetes, hypertension, cardiomyopathy, and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease. In addition, they will be exposed to patients with the following characteristics: -Ambulatory patients with acute complaints -Gender-specific medical care -Patients recently discharged from the inpatient setting or from the emergency room -Patients being evaluated for surgery -Patients presenting for routine GYN care.

MDR 821: Arthritis

Credits 2
This elective will teach the student an approach to the diagnosis, management and therapy of common rheumatic disease including rheumatoid arthritis, gout and osteoarthritis. In addition, unusual diseases such as systemic sclerosis, polymyositis, and vasculitis are seen. Students will become proficient in the examination of joints and interpretation of joint fluid findings.

MDR 822: UMH Cardiac ICU and Consults

Credits 2
This elective is intended to provide the senior medical student with a variety of cardiac critical care experiences, including acute myocardial infarction, cardiogenic shock, heart failure, valvular heart disease, post cardiac surgery, and arrhythmias. The student will also be exposed to clinical research ranging from valvular heart disease to stem cell transplantation. Three-to-four cardiology conferences will be offered each week, supplementing the daily teaching rounds, which include didactic presentations. An opportunity for procedures experience, including central line placement, will also be available.

MDR 824: JMH Cardiology Consult

Credits 2
This rotation includes consultative diagnosis, electrocardiography, and intensive medical and surgical cardiac care at either JMH or VAMC.

MDR 826: ACE: Endocrinology, Diabetes and Metabolism

Credits 4

This is a 4-week elective intended to expose the senior medical student to a spectrum of experiences in 
Endocrinology and Diabetes. Students must reach out to both Dr. Soliman and Deylin Pedroso at least one
week prior to the start of the rotation for their schedule and instructions on where to report.

MDR 827: Advanced Geriatrics

Credits 2
This advanced geriatrics elective allows students to gain additional experience evaluating older patients in a variety of care settings under the supervision of attendings physicians and fellows in geriatric medicine. It can also be designed to give students a clinical or research experience in a specialized area of geriatrics tailored to their interests. Students will be assigned to a primary clinical venue and will have opportunities to rotate through other care settings (inpatient consultation, outpatient, long-term care, specialty clinic, spinal cord service). As most of our clinical venues are located in the VA, students must be fully onboarded at the VA with up-to-date credentials.

MDR 829: JMH Coronary Care Unit

Credits 2
This elective presents students with the opportunity to follow patients with life endangering cardiac problems from the moment of admission to the hospital to discharge from the Unit. Particular emphasis is placed on clinical aspects of diagnosis and management of these patients. Participation in the insertion of Swann-Ganz and pacemaker catheters shall be allowed for students who show exceptional interest. The rotation will, in addition, provide experience in computerized monitoring of arrhythmias, EKG and echocardiographic interpretations, and experience in interpreting cardiac catheterization data.

MDR 830: ACE: Gastroenterology

Credits 4

This is a 4-week clinical elective intended to expose the medical students to a wide spectrum of experiences in gastroenterology. Generally, each two weeks, the students will rotate through a different clinical setting and see patients/procedures based on the emphasis at that location.

MDR 833: Hematology

Credits 2
The Hematology consult service at JMH is responsible for the initial evaluation and ongoing management of patients admitted to JMH in which a hematology consult is requested. These requests can include consultations for malignant hematology conditions, benign hematology conditions and coagulopathies.

MDR 834: Hepatology

Credits 2
This is a two-week clinical elective to expose medical students to a wide spectrum of experiences in General as well as Transplant Hepatology.

MDR 835: Applied Procedural Medicine

Credits 2

This two-week medical school course offers students structured, hands-on exposure to common bedside procedures and multidisciplinary care in a hospital setting. Students will gain comfort in working in sterile environments while maximizing patient safety and comfort. This course emphasizes both procedural observation/participation and interdisciplinary collaboration, providing students with a well-rounded clinical experience in invasive bedside care and specialized support teams. Students will complete the two-day hands-on training period with residents coming onto their month-long procedural medicine rotation and take a quiz at the completion of this training. Students will get the chance to observe and set up for procedures, consent patients, and may have the opportunity to perform/assist with procedures on a case-by-case basis. This elective is designed for students entering inpatient-heavy specialties who may not have had significant hands-on exposure to bedside procedures, multidisciplinary inpatient care teams, or sterile environments during prior rotations. It aims to build clinical confidence, procedural literacy, and team-based care readiness prior to residency.

MDR 836: ACE: Infectious Diseases

Credits 4
This elective provides a learning experience in the clinical discipline of Infectious Diseases, a discipline that stresses accurate definition of disease and establishment of an etiologic diagnosis through clinical assessment and microbiologic testing. Treatment can be rationally selected when the etiologic diagnosis is correctly identified. Appropriate initiation and discontinuation of antimicrobials are key activities on the ID service. Performing these steps under guidance of a physician with ID specialty training provides the essence of this clinical experience. This elective provides a unique opportunity to see a broad range of infectious diseases.

MDR 839: CCS: Medical Intensive Care Unit

Credits 2
The Critical care selective is mandatory for Phase 3 students who have successfully completed their clerkships. The purpose of this selective is to provide the student a robust exposure of critical care concepts, aligned with their career of choice. This selective focuses on developing skills to recognize early signs of a critically ill patient who would benefit from specialized intensive care and to implement interventions to stabilize a patient during the initial critical phase of their illness. The course will build on core physiological concepts students were introduced to previously. There will be unique opportunities to implement these concepts in real-time in the care of their critically ill patient, allowing them to directly observe changes in the patient’s clinical status related to their intervention.

MDR 840: ACE Street Medicine

Credits 4

The Street Classroom elective, hosted by the Dade County Street Response, will provide a unique experience for 
University of Miami Miller students in the care of our unhoused patient population. There will be opportunities to 
develop medical skills used in atypical social and environmental situations. Students will have the chance to 
identify barriers and coordinate outreach strategies. Additionally, students will manage problems related to 
mental health and substance use. They will work closely with the Dade County Street Response student staff, 
case managers, and other members of a multi-disciplinary outreach health care team.


The primary function of DCSR is in social justice and solidarity - not in the creation of volunteer or student 
learning opportunities. However, we believe it is possible to offer an ethical balance of teaching/learning while 
providing critical social services. By offering this opportunity, we may hold the door open for students after us who 
wish to engage in the care of unsheltered person s. We hope our program encourages the next generation of 
physicians to see this population with clearer eyes and a more open heart.

MDR 842: ACE: Nephrology

Credits 4

The clinical and teaching activities focus on the provision of consultative and direct medical care for patients with renal disease, hypertension, disorders of water, electrolyte and acid-base balance, and related metabolic and immunologic disease. Contemporary technologies used in diagnosis and treatment include renal biopsy, acute and chronic hemo- and peritoneal-dialysis, renal transplantation, plasmapheresis, evaluation of nuclear flow studies, and interventional nephrology.

MDR 853: UMH Cardiac Catheterization

Credits 2

This is a 2-week elective intended to expose the senior medical student to the procedures performed in interventional cardiology. During the rotation, the student will have the opportunity to interact with multiple specialists who have expertise in various areas of interventional cardiology and attend cardiology conferences.

MDR 962: Internal Medicine SUB-I

Credits 4
The sub-internship (Sub-I), a 4-week experience, offered during Phase 3 of the NextGen curriculum is intended to provide a learning experience for the student that prepares them to serve as competent interns and effective members of an interdisciplinary team.

MDR 979: AISS: Pulmonary and Pulmonary Physiology

Credits 4

Students will integrate physiology and pathophysiology of pulmonary processes into their clinical encounters both inpatient and outpatient. Students will see patients in the mornings and present them to the attending during rounds. They will have opportunities to observe procedures such as bronchoscopies and thoracenteses, and participate in hands-on workshops involving pulmonary functional tests, sleep studies and mechanical ventilator simulations.