Do interns participate directly in patient care?
Interns serve as Clinic Coordinators, ensuring clinic quality and efficiency. This job entails many duties, including triage (taking weight, height, and temperature measurements and screening patients for chief complaints), patient case management (getting other physicians involved and invested in the patients health outcomes, finding specialty appointments and medications for resource-poor families), and management of the patient database. Interns are involved directly in every clinic/patient interaction but will not provide direct medical care at any time. Roatan Public Hospital policy prohibits any unlicensed physician, including a medical student, from providing direct patient care.
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