Elective Clerkships
Bayhealth offers our campus students the opportunity to choose electives in medical and surgical subspecialties, including gastroenterology, pulmonology, nephrology, infectious disease, critical care, hematology/oncology, pathology, physical medicine and rehabilitation, sports medicine, anesthesia, neurosurgery, plastic surgery, urology, and cardiovascular/thoracic surgery.
Critical Care: Venkata Ravi Kumar Angirekula, MD
Gastroenterology: Bhavin Dave, MD
Hematology/Oncology: Rishi Sawhney, MD
Infectious Disease: Ramesh Vemulapalli, MD
Nephrology: Sangeetha Satyan, MD
Neurosurgery: Aaron Sigler, DO
Pathology: David Brenner, MD
Plastic & Reconstructive Surgery: Jonathan Sarik, MD
Pulmonary & Sleep Medicine: Michel Samaha, MD
Urology: Michael Zaragoza, MD
In addition, Bayhealth has a few unique electives:
Practice Management and Leadership is precepted by Shalini Shah, MD and offers a perspective in the business of medicine, committee membership and other leadership responsibilities. Students enjoy 1:1 time with her and other leaders in the hospital system, and complete a project based on social determinants of health.
Medical Nutrition and Rehabilitative Medicine is overseen by Shalini Shah, MD and offers students time with Bayhealth’s physical therapy, occupational therapy, registered dieticians, and speech language pathology teams.
Consultation-Liaison Psychiatry is precepted by Andrea DeSimone, DO the Psychiatry Department Chair at Bayhealth Medical Center. She enjoys precepting students at the 4th year interested in psychiatry. This rotation is inpatient, consultation-only.
Students interested in the residency programs at Bayhealth may apply in VSLO for an audition rotation. Applications open March 1st every year. Every program offers a scholarship to students underrepresented in medicine. More details found in the FAQ and on VSLO. Information about the residencies may be found on the Graduate Medical Education page.
Didactics
Students will enjoy structured lecture and simulation time throughout the year. While on inpatient, family medicine, general surgery, and emergency medicine rotations students will join residents in their didactic sessions. Additionally, the UME team schedules student-only lectures and simulation activities aimed at providing students with board preparation and time to practice hands-on skills before they encounter clinical situations in the field. Students also receive monthly wellness lectures with the UME program director and a physician wellness consultant.