Medical Internship Mid-Year 2025

Internship for medical students provides valuable exposure to real-world healthcare settings, allowing them to shadow experienced professionals and gain insights into various medical specialties. Through this observer ship, students have the chance to observe clinical procedures, patient interactions, and healthcare delivery systems. Additionally, they can learn about the interdisciplinary collaboration involved in patient care and witness the application of medical knowledge in diagnosing and treating illnesses. Overall, observer ship offers medical students a unique learning experience that complements their formal education and helps them make informed decisions about their future career paths in medicine.

By the end of this internship participants will be able to:

Outpatient Clinic:

• Acquire how to gather information (history taking, physical examinations, and vital signs) and proper clinical assessment of all patients in the hematology, solid, BMT and neuro-oncology departments.
• Identify and apply basic infection control measures including strict precautions for isolated cases.
• Recognize common presenting signs & symptoms.
• Recognize and learn the importance of the electronic medical system in providing medical care including basic investigations and daily notes.
• Define how ethical behavior, respect, patient privacy, and responsiveness to the needs of patients and families are undertaken.
• Acquire how to communicate with patients/families, colleagues, and other health professionals

Emergency:

• Recognize the most common emergency features presented to emergency room and how to deal in a professional way.
• Categorize patients presented to the emergency room according to the severity of the condition using the triage assessment score.
• Identify how to screen the suspected cases of infectious disease presented to emergency and patient flow for any suspected cases.
• Acquire how to apply smooth patient flow in the emergency to make a safe environment for patients and staff.

Radio diagnosis:

• Define the Types and values of different imaging modalities including X-Ray, ultrasound, CT, and MRI.
• Identify the Role of imaging in diagnosis, staging, and follow-up of oncology patients

Radiotherapy:

• Recognize the patient workflow and common indications for radiotherapy in different childhood cancer.
• Recognize the main complications of radiotherapy

Endocrinology:

• Identify the growth and development in different pediatric age group.
• Acquire how to take full history and clinical examination for common endocrinal problem in countered in childhood cancer survivors.

Cardiology:

• Acquire the Introduction to pediatric cardio- oncology.
• Select Cardiac history taking and symptomatology Echo-cardiograph evaluation, Cardio-protective and Ant failure medications, ECG evaluation and interpretation Full echocardiographic examination, modes and Evaluation of Cardiac dimensions and LV systolic function detection.
• Identify the Overview of heart failure Understand patient flow in pediatric cardiology clinic.

Daycare and Procedure:

• Recognize the workflow and how oncology procedures (lumbar punctures, intrathecal chemotherapy, bone marrow aspirates, and biopsies) are being done.
• Define and apply basic infection control measures utilized in the procedure room and daycare Know the workflow and chemotherapy given and medical service provided in the daycare

( 5 ) Working days  

Total hours:  35 Hours

Wave 1 : 26/01/2025 – 30/01/2025

Wave 2 : 16/02/2025 – 20/02/2025

Wave 3 : 23/02/2025 – 27/02/2025

Faculty of Medicine

In order to receive your certificate, you have to attend not less than 70%

• Hard copy for 100 Egyptian Pounds
• Soft copy for free