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GIM Comprehensive Consultation Service

Welcome to the Hopkins GIM consultation service web page. The discipline of consult medicine continues to grow, and we intend to lead the way. Our mission is to provide our patients with world-class care and our trainees with a firm foundation in the basics of consultative medicine. We are proud to offer a unique learning experience for trainees of all levels. The service is led by the general internal medicine fellows and the general internal medicine faculty who have a special interest in consultative medicine.

Interns from the Osler medical training program along with medical students have the opportunity to collaborate with physicians from other services to care for patients with primarily surgical, gynecological, and psychiatric illnesses. The basics of consult medicine, peri-operative care, anticoagulation issues, and an evidence-based approach to practice are emphasized. Interns and students evaluate the patients initially and then present the patient care problem(s) to the attending faculty and senior clinical general internal medicine fellow. The trainees follow their patients daily with guidance from the fellow and make additional recommendations for evaluation and management.

The faculty and fellows all firmly believe that experiential and formal instruction of the trainees is essential. Selected articles regarding important consultation topics are provided and discussed. Teaching sessions are lead regularly by the fellows and faculty. Students also have the option of attending lectures on the basics of evidence-based medicine with the interns.

We welcome trainees from other institutions who wish to learn consultative medicine form our esteemed fellows and faculty members. The clerkship is particularly appropriate for students interested in entering a field of surgery, anesthesiology, psychiatry, or internal medicine. We ask that all students have finished a basic medicine clerkship before rotating on the consult service.

Join us as we provide a valued and important service to the rest of the Johns Hopkins community. For more information on the daily schedule and curriculum, please refer to the links below. If you have questions or would like to apply for an away elective with the consult service, please email me.

Lenny Feldman, MD
Assistant Professor, Division of General Internal Medicine
Director, General Internal Medicine Consult Service
Director, Hospitalist Education Programs
Director, Med-Peds Urban Health Residency Program
Associate Program Director, Osler Medical Residency Training Program

NEW:

The Johns Hopkins Consultative Medicine Essentials for Hospitalists
(An online consultative medicine resource, specifically created and designed for hospitalists and residents interested in the field, providing authoritative and comprehensive training in general medical care of hospitalized patients through four accredited case-based modules.)