The Department of Medicine offers undergraduate training in internal medicine. The third year clerkship in internal medicine is administered by Dr. Marvin L. Crawford, MD, M. Div., and offers an eight week experience in inpatient internal medicine based at Grady Memorial Hospital. Students are also exposed to sub-specialty: outpatient clinics.

The principles of internal medicine form the foundation of the diagnostic evaluation of all patients. Internal medicine, as a discipline, emphasizes and places great importance on the skills of history taking and physical examination. All students are expected to master these skills. This discipline further seeks to foster problem solving skills through acquisition of a broad knowledge base, generation of clinical hypotheses, and synthesis of a plan to discriminate among hypotheses. This process of differential diagnoses formation and problem definition are best learned in the internal medicine clerkship. Patient management skills for hospitalized patients are emphasized. The internal medicine ward experience also teaches the student to take personal responsibility for the individual patient’s medical care.