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Care Across the Life Cycle Block

During your Care Across the Life Cycle Block rotation at Gundersen, be sure to keep track of your requirements for UWSMPH via Canvas.

Visit Canvas

Case Based Learning (CBL) is Tuesday afternoon starting at 1 pm, unless otherwise noted on your schedule. Complete your weekly pre-CBL requirements on Canvas! Your required continuity clinic - 1/2 day a week in a specialty, or WARM, 1 day every other week - is also on your schedule.

If you have any questions, please do not hesitate to ask!

Care Across the Life Cycle Block

Downtime materials

Geriatrics

Topics covered: 

  • Delirium in the clinic
  • Dementia in the clinic
  • Depression in the elderly
  • Montreal Cognitive Assessment
  • Montreal Cognitive Assessment Instructions

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Geriatrics rotation

Watch these videos prior to your Geriatrics rotation:

Mother/Child Dyad Week during OB/Gyn

During your 12-week CALC block, you will have one week devoted to exploring the maternal-child dyad of labor, delivery and postpartum care. It will be an opportunity to follow a mother-child pairing through the entire process and have a unique view at what goes on behind the scenes and not just the physician/patient interface. Your point of entry at the beginning of the week will be the on-call Labor and Delivery obstetrician.

You will present on your Exploration Project in either week 6 or week 12 to your peers - depending on if you had OB/Gyn during the first six or last six weeks of the rotation.

Requirements:

OB/Gyn rotation

If you are starting OB/Gyn in the last 6 weeks of CALC, review information on Orientation site and watch the videos posted there.

OB/Gyn Rotation Requirements


Things to know

  • OB/Gyn Clinic is on the 3rd Floor of the Main Clinic
    Ultrasound Clinic is located on 3rd Floor Main Clinic, check in at front desk
  • Get your scrubs from the student scrub machine on 2nd Floor Heritage, even when you are on L&D
  • OB/Gyn OR is located in the general OR on the 2nd floor of the Heritage Building

Pre-reading before BLTs

  • Canvas Pre-BLT Materials

Week 2: Pregnancy

Videos:

Reading materials: 

  • At Risk Drinking and Alcohol Dependence Obstetric and Gynecologic Implications
  • Marijuana Usage in Pregnancy
  • Methamphetamine Abuse in Women of Reproductive Age
  • Nausea and Vomiting of Pregnancy
  • Opioid Use and Opioid Use Disorder in Pregnancy
  • Prenatal Diagnostic Testing for Genetic Disorders
  • Screening for Fetal Aneuploidy

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Week 3: Delivery

Videos:

Reading materials:

  • Fetal Growth Restriction
  • Obstetric Analgesia and Anesthesia
  • Postpartum Hemorrhage
  • Shoulder Dystocia

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Week 8: Well women's care

Reading materials:

  • Cervical Cancer Screening and Prevention
  • Health Care for Lesbians and Bisexual Women
  • Management of Endometriosis
  • Polycystic Ovarian Syndrome

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Week 9: Common women's health issues

Videos:

Reading materials:

  • Abnormal Uterine Bleeding
  • Endometrial Cancer
  • Management of Abnormal Uterine Bleeding Associated with Ovulatory Dysfunction
  • Urinary Incontinence in Women

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Pediatrics rotation

Important documents

Recommended texts

Red Book
Gladiator Homepage>Top Clinical Resources>Health Sciences Library>Quick Links - Resources A to Z>Red Book Online
(access free through Gundersen)

Things to know

  • If the provider you are scheduled to be with isn't available, the department will need to place you with someone else
  • When you are on call, you will be on from 5 to 11 pm during the week. Weekend call hours are 8 am - 11 pm
  • Clinic start time is 8 am unless your provider tells you otherwise
  • NICU: arrive at 7:30 am in scrubs, 5th Floor Legacy
  • Hem/Onc: arrive at 8 am, 2nd Floor East Building
  • Peds Specialties are located on 3rd Floor Heritage

Mini-lectures for Inpatient

Topics covered:

  • Viral Croup 
  • Osteomyelitis
  • Hemolytic Uremic Syndrome
  • Fever
  • Community Acquired Pneumonia
  • Acute Bronchitis

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Contact information

Block Director

Dr. Kelly Hodgson Kline
(608) 372-4111

Email

Geriatrics Rotation Lead

Dr. Mary Bassing
(608) 775-2805

Email

Obstetrics and Gynecology Rotation Lead

Dr. Ken Merkitch
(608) 775-2204

Email

Pediatrics Rotation Lead

Dr. Lori Weber
(608) 775-1534

Email

Program Coordinator

Email

1900 South Ave.
La Crosse, WI 54601

(608) 782-7300

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