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Resident Responsibility: Residents are responsible, under
supervision, for total patient care, including admission, initial evaluation,
diagnosis, selection of therapy and management of complications for patients
at the University, Veterans Hospital, Methodist, LeBonheur and St. Jude Hospitals. The residents encounter these patients in
the out-patient clinics of these facilities, arrange the admission, the
initial evaluation and diagnosis, and select the appropriate therapy under
supervision. Complications are managed
by the residents under supervision.
They are responsible for continuity of care of these non-private
patients throughout their rotation.
This includes night and weekend responsibility (when on call) and
long-term care within the limits of the length of the rotation. In all of the training sites, residents are
also responsible, under supervision, for the total patient care of private
patients. However, due to the
diversity of volunteer faculty office sites, they may not be associated with
the decision for patient admission and similarly, they may not be available
to participate in the office follow-up and long-term continuous care of these
private patients. On the other hand,
many of the private patients, especially those of the full time faculty, are
initially seen as inpatient consultations.
In these instances, the resident is responsible, under supervision,
for the initial evaluation, diagnostic studies, and therapy plan. In addition, as the private patient office
of the full time faculty is adjacent to the training sites, residents are
encouraged, and time permitting, to attend our private clinics. This allows them an opportunity to
participate in the post hospitalization care of those patients they were
responsible for during hospitalization, as well as to experience other office procedures. These include renal/transrectal
ultrasonography/prostate biopsies, vasectomies, flexible/rigid cystoscopy,
complex urodynamics, and other important techniques for their training. |
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