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Boot Camp for UM Medical Students

Help Them Prep for Residency

The boot camp was initially
launched in 2015 as a two-week
elective for a pilot group of eight
students, to ready them for resi-
Specializing in Medically dency training. Since then, word
of mouth has spread about the
value of the boot camp, with the
Complex Patients result that the 2022 cohort of 50
students was the largest to date.
Kindred Hospitals are owned by Kindred In 2023, the boot camp will
Healthcare, Inc., a national network of Long Term become a four-week required
Acute Care Hospitals (LTACH's). course for all graduating med-
ical students, and will include
Kindred Hospitals provide specialized, high quality specialty components such as
care for acutely ill patients. For more than a decade, emergency medicine, internal
we have fine-tuned the art of medically complex care.
medicine, surgery, obstetrics-
Our services range from complex catastrophic gynecology, and pediatrics. The Phlebotomy practice with
illnesses that require intensive care, post-surgical medical course will be directed by Gauri medical students.
rehabilitation to patients suffering from chronic diseases requiring respiratory and Agarwal, M.D., associate dean
rehabilitative therapies. Kindred Hospitals provide outcome-oriented of curriculum; Alecia Stein,
cost effective care for patients with a wide spectrum of M.D., director of simulation
medical conditions. education; and Paul Mendez,
M.D., director of clinical skills.
Admissions to Kindred Hospitals may be Faculty members from the
recommended by physicians, acute-care hospitals, Departments of Medicine,
rehabilitation hospitals, managed care providers, case Anesthesiology, Radiology, and
management companies or by the patient’s family. Medical Education, and the
In all cases family tours are encouraged. Division of Emergency
Medicine, will also contribute
to the lessons in a voluntary
role.
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patients, to handle acute emergencies using high-fidelity simulations at the Gordon
Center, to prepare for the professionalism required of residency training, and to con-
solidate the knowledge gained over four years of medical school,” Dr. Agarwal said.
Students taking the course can expect an interactive experience, performing simu-
lations, procedure labs, and standardized patient sessions in “real” scenarios that they
will encounter in residency.
A favorite of the students has been emergency scenarios in which they are the first
person in the room and must make an assessment and begin initial management,
exercising a greater and unaccustomed level of independence. They also practice com-
munication scenarios they may never have encountered, such as significant medical
errors or informing a family member of a patient’s death.
“I had been waiting for an experience like this throughout medical school,” said
Daniel Beckerman, a fourth-year student. “To be challenged with working effectively
as a team to navigate common yet extremely consequential scenarios is important. I
am glad the Miller School is leveraging the resources available to them through the
Gordon Center to improve the way medical education is delivered, and hope they find
more ways to integrate this type of learning into the new curriculum.”
The Department of Medical Education has been taking notes throughout the boot
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