Acting Internship

Welcome to the Acting Internship Rotation. This is the culmination of your medical school education and training where you finally can function like an intern under direct supervision. The course will help prepare you for you intern year by helping you improve your clinical efficiency, gain systems knowledge and practical skills, and learn to manage a variety of patient conditions through direct patient care. Students on their AI rotation will assume primary responsibility for the patients they are following as a part of the care team and perform all roles of a typical intern, including writing documentation (daily notes, discharge summaries, and admission histories and physicals), placing orders in the EMR (including admission orders), calling consults, answering nursing pages and triaging acute patient conditions, handing off patients, and using clinical reasoning and evidence/guidelines to help diagnose and treat patients. AI students will also gain feedback and show their ability to perform Core Entrustable Professional Activities (Core EPAs) through direct observations and workplace-based assessments during their rotation. Students are required to complete two types of AI rotations: ward AI (includes inpatient only and hybrid inpatient/ outpatient experiences) and critical care AI (Emergency Department and Intensive Care) rotations.

Acting Internship Course Director

Adam Garber, M.D.
Associate Professor of Internal Medicine
VCU Health/VCU School of Medicine
Email: adam.garber@vcuhealth.org

Clinical Curriculum Manager

Casey Mangin
VCU Health/VCU School of Medicine
Office: McGlothlin Medical Education Center, 4-228
Phone: (804) 601-4076
Email: casey.mangin@vcuhealth.org