MEDICINE 412C
Hospital Medicine
Talia Bernal
Description from DukeHub
The student on the Hospital Medicine elective will help manage acutely ill patients as a member of the Hospital Medicine Service. Through a variety of shifts, the following major learning areas may be emphasized: 1) Management of inpatients on the hospital medicine service. 2) Admitting patients from the emergency room, transferred from outside hospitals, or as direct admissions from clinic. 3) Overnight patient care including patient admissions, cross cover emergencies, and transitions of care. 4) Procedures including line placement, thoracentesis, paracentesis, and lumbar puncture through participation and direct observation. This course is a two-week course. When contacting the course director with interest, please indicate if you prefer the first or second two weeks of the four-week block. Prerequisite: Permission of course director is required. Contact (contact listed in DukeHub) for permission to enroll. Enrollment Max.: 2. Credit: 2. Talia Bernal, MD
Skills
- clinicalSchool of Medicine clinical course
AI-resilient: 2 of 5
- Yes: Physical, lab or field work · "patient care"
- Yes: Live work with people · "patients"
- No: Judgment someone is accountable for
- No: A craft you practice with your hands or body
- No: Small, in-person format
The checks lean on Microsoft Research, Working with AI (2025), which found generative AI applies least to physical work and hands-on work with people. A signal, not a promise. How the score works
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