Monique Forskin-Bennerman, M.D., FACP
Assistant Professor of Medicine
Clerkship Program Director
Kehinde Carew, M.D.
Assistant Professor of Medicine
Associate Clerkship Program Director
The Junior Medicine Clerkship is a twelve-week rotation divided into three separate four-week blocks. Each student spends at least four weeks rotating on a general medicine ward performing history and physical examinations, assisting with various medical procedures and participating in call duties under the supervision of senior medical residents and medical attending physicians.
General Medicine ward rotations are available at the following clinical sites:
Nashville General Hospital at Meharry (NMGH)
Alvin C. York V.A. Medical Center (VAMC)
Ambulatory rotations are available at the following sites:
Matthew Walker Comprehensive Health Center (MWCHC)
Centennial Medical Center (CMC)
Nashville General Medical – Surgical Clinic
Smyrna Medical Group Clinic
At least four of the remaining eight weeks are spent in an ambulatory clinical setting. Students evaluate patients in this setting with emphasis on diagnosis and management of common ambulatory diseases, and screening for diseases when clinically applicable. During the clerkship, students actively participate in regularly scheduled teaching rounds, grand rounds and clinical conferences. Students are provided with a structured medical curriculum, which includes weekly core lectures pertaining to common and uncommon medical problems.
Students are given constructive feedback regarding their clinical performance via attending/resident and clerkship director’s evaluation with adequate time to correct clinical deficiencies.
Clerks are expected to have attained a basic level of knowledge, skills, and attitudes and professional behaviors prior to starting the clerkship. Our goal is to build on these attributes in a 12-week period so that each student would have grasped the core of internal medicine at the end of the rotation.
