Duration: Summer 10-week experience (flexible May through August)
Application Timeline: application deadline 4/15/2025 at 12pm, EST.Stipend: $4,500 (approximately $15 per hour on a 30-hour work week) Purpose: Hands on Introduction to rural medicine for college pre-medicine students. Concept: Introductory skill development for basic patient care and clinical medicine. This is not a job shadowing experience. All work will be supervised by an attending physician. Students will engage in developing hands on skills and honing interpersonal communication skills.
Qualification Requirements:
- Completion of freshman college year,
- Minimum GPA of 3.6,
- Graduated high school in Sampson County within past 4 years.
- CV
- Submission of 500-word essay on: What areas of medicine interest you and what makes you consider practicing rural medicine?
Selection Process: Sampson Regional Medical Center will appoint 0-3 qualified applicants based on its available resources, applicant pool, essay, and its internal needs. Selected candidates will be notified on or by May 15th.Curriculum:Week 1-6 Primary Care:
- Medical assistant work and Basic patient evaluation –Checking patient vital signs, urine analysis, documentation of chief complaint.
- Learning and practicing universal precautions.
- Learning and practicing HIPPA privacy.
- Honing communication skills through patient interviews, phone calls, care coordination
- Performing preventive care interviews and depression screening
- Health counseling: diet, exercise, medication compliance
- Introduction to osteopathic manipulation
Week 7-8 General Surgery: Apply Universal precautions. Learn and apply basic wound care techniques, dressing changes. Then assist in basic office surgical procedures as appropriate and available. Learn scrub technique and sterile process while participating in 1-2 operations per week when available. Week 9-10: Inpatient Medicine Experience inpatient care of adult, pediatric, newborn care. Participate with the inpatient care team interdisciplinary rounds. Participate through assisting inpatient pharmacy review, Discharge planning, social work, care coordination, process. Participate with the family medicine residency program hospitalist service to Interview patients, scribe and develop a comprehensive understanding of hospital-based care.