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What state are you talking about? Virginia certainly has no psychological testing requirement. There are some restrictions and a simple questionnaire to fill out, but passing a psychological test isn't one of them.In Virginia, Open Carry is legal. No permit is required if you are not concealing a firearm. A permit is only required for concealed carry of a firearm. Here is a copy of the form containing the questions for concealed carry: http://www.vsp.state.va.us/downloads/SP-248_Application_for_Concealed_Handgun_Permit_Rev_7-1-2013.pdfPurchasing a firearm involves filling out a questionnaire as well, but again there is no psychological test. Here are the questions a person must answer in Virginia to PURCHASE a firearm:Firearms Purchase Eligibility TestA person who answers "yes" to any of the below questions may be prohibited from purchasing or possessing a firearm pursuant to state and/or federal law.Are you under indictment for a felony offense?Are you the subject of an active misdemeanor or felony arrest warrant from any state?Have you ever been convicted, as an adult, in any court of a felony offense?If you are 28 years old or younger, have you ever been adjudicated delinquent as a juvenile 14 years of age or older at the time of offense of a delinquent act, which would be a felony if committed by an adult?Were you adjudicated as a juvenile 14 years of age or older at the time of the offense of murder in violation of § 18.2-31 or 18.2-32, kidnapping in violation of § 18.2-47, robbery by the threat or presentation of firearms in violation of § 18.2-58, or rape in violation of § 18.2-61? (If adjudicated as a delinquent for these offenses, you must answer yes. You are ineligible regardless of your current age and prohibited for life unless allowed by restoration of rights by the Governor of Virginia and order of the circuit court in the jurisdiction in which you reside.)Have you ever been convicted in any court of a misdemeanor crime punishable by more than 2 years even if the maximum punishment was not received?Is there an outstanding protective or restraining order against you from any court that involves your spouse, a former spouse, an individual with whom you share a child in common, or someone you cohabited with as an intimate partner?Is there an outstanding protective or restraining order against you from any court that involves stalking, sexual battery, alleged abuse or acts of violence against a family or household member?Are you an unlawful user of, or addicted to, marijuana, or any depressant, stimulant, or narcotic drug, or any controlled substance? The Federal Gun Control Act defines an addicted person, or unlawful user, as a person who has a conviction for use or possession of a controlled substance within the past year or persons found through a drug test to use a controlled substance unlawfully, provided that the test was administered within the past year.Have you ever been acquitted by reason of insanity?Have you ever been adjudicated legally incompetent or mentally incapacitated, or adjudicated an incapacitated person?Have you ever been involuntarily admitted to a facility or involuntarily ordered to outpatient mental health treatment?Have you ever been the subject of a temporary detention order and subsequently agreed to voluntarily admission for mental health treatment?Have you been discharged from the Armed Forces under dishonorable discharge?Are you an alien illegally in the United States?Are you a nonimmigrant alien? A nonimmigrant alien is prohibited from receiving a firearm unless he or she falls within an exception to the nonimmigrant alien prohibition (e.g., hunting license/permit; waiver).Are you a person who, having been a citizen of the United States, has renounced your citizenship?Have you ever been convicted for the misdemeanor crime of domestic violence? This includes all misdemeanors that involve the use, threat of, or attempted use of physical force (e.g., simple assault, assault and battery) if the offense is committed by one of the following parties: a current or former spouse, parent, or guardian of the victim, by a person with whom the victim shares a child in common, by a person who is cohabiting with or has cohabited with the victim as a spouse, parent or guardian, or by a person similarly situated to a spouse, parent or guardian of the victim.Are you a person who, within a 36 month period, within the last 5 years, has been convicted under Virginia law of 2 misdemeanor offenses for Possession of Controlled Substance or Possession of Marijuana? (Handgun Purchases Only)If you are denied the right to purchase a firearm because you have been convicted of a felony as described in Section 18.2-308.2 of the Code of Virginia, you may still be eligible to purchase a firearm if your rights have been restored under both state and federal law. Information pertaining to the restoration of firearm rights is available at http://www.vsp.state.va.us/Firearms_Restoration.shtm.And here's what that site says about getting your firearm rights restored:Restoration of Firearm Rights (EFFECTIVE JULY 1, 2015)One who is convicted of a felony automatically loses his firearm rights under state and federal law. If you have been convicted of a felony as described in Section 18.2-308.2 of the Code of Virginia, you may still be eligible to purchase a firearm if your rights have been restored under both state and federal law, as follows:You have been pardoned or have had your political disabilities removed pursuant to Article V, Section 12 of the Constitution of Virginia, and the executive order does not place any conditions upon the reinstatement of your right to ship, transport, possess or receive firearms.-OR-You were convicted of a felony offense in a Virginia Circuit Court, you have been granted permission by the Circuit Court of the jurisdiction in which you reside or the court in which you were convicted to possess or carry a firearm (with no restrictions on the type or use of firearms) and one of the following:you have had all other political rights restored by the Governor, or,you have had your federal disabilities removed by the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms.-OR-You were convicted of a felony offense in a state other than Virginia, you have had your political rights restored by the Governor of the State in which you were convicted, or other legal authority of that state, and you have had your firearms rights restored (with no restrictions on the type or use of firearms) by a court or other legal authority in the State in which you were convicted.-OR-You were convicted of a felony offense by a federal court and have had your firearm disabilities removed by the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms.State restoration of all civil rights does not remove the disabilities imposed as a result of a federal conviction. The Supreme Court has held that persons convicted of federal felonies remain subject to the federal firearms disability until their rights are restored through a federal, not state, procedure. For more information concerning this process please contact the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives.The removal of federal firearms disabilities imposed by a state felony conviction will automatically result where there has been a restoration of all civil rights; i.e., the right to vote, hold public office, be a juror, and anunrestricted restoration of a person’s rights under state law to receive and possess firearms. An example of a restricted permit is one that limits the purchase, possession or transportation of a firearm to rifles or shotguns, only, for the purpose of hunting.If you have been granted restoration of your political rights from the Governor of Virginia, you may petition circuit court of the county or city in which you reside or of the county or city in which you were convicted, for a hearing to request restoration of your firearm rights. See Section 18.2-308.2 of the Code of Virginia. Please contact a court representative or visit the court’s website for further guidance in this matter.It is your responsibility to furnish evidence of eligibility to the Department of State Police Firearms Transaction Center at Post Office Box 85608, Richmond, Virginia 23285-5608, fax (804) 674-2791, or email [email protected]:Virginia Code Section 18.2-308.218 United States Code Section 921(a)(20)18 United States Code Section 922 (g)Beecham V. United States No. 93–445. Argued March 21, 1994—Decided May 16, 1994Caron V. United States No. 97–6270. Argued April 21, 1998—Decided June 22, 1998For more information concerning the restoration of civil rights, please contact the Office of the Secretary of the Commonwealth.For more information concerning the Federal Gun Control Act, please contact the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives.

Well, hypothetically speaking…0 hour. A member of a terrorist group, say, Aum Shinrikyo (a Japanese doomsday cult that orchestrated two similar biological attacks, but with sarin, more than a decade ago in Japan) or……a Chechen Islamist separatist group like the Caucasus Emirate (who, let us pretend, managed to gain access to smallpox stockpiles from Zagorsk before they moved it all to Koltsovo)……surreptitiously drops a vial containing smallpox on the floor of a busy international airport in Japan.↓0 hour. The vial hits the ground and shatters. The virus dissipates into the air.↓0 hour + 1 min. The virus diffuses 5 feet off the airport floor to head height (most people in an airport are adults) and enters the nasal and oral passages of everyone in the vicinity. They are now infected. The virus is called variola. The disease it causes occurs in two variants: variola major and variola minor. The latter is a far safer disease, but happens only 1% of the time.99% of the people who breathe in the virus will contract variola major.↓0 hour + 2 min. Life will go on for all these people as usual. They will board their flights, or collect their luggage and leave the airport, or finish their shift and check out of their airport job for the day. These people will infect nearly no one. Variola is only contagious once the symptoms appear. That hasn’t happened yet.↓0 hour + 3 min. The virus invades the mucosa of the respiratory and oral tract of the infected.The first victims reach their destinations and disembark, or reach their homes and families relatively close to the airport.↓o hour + 1 day. The virus reaches the regional lymph nodes near the infected tissues and begins to multiply there as well.The infected are still asymptomatic and non-contagious. They hug, kiss, fist-bump and high-five other people, infecting none of them.↓0 hour + 4 days. The virus bursts out of the cells it infected, destroying them in the process. It breaks out of the respiratory and oral tissues it first infected, resulting in a cold and a sore throat respectively. It breaks out of the lymph nodes into the bloodstream, causing a fever.The infected come down with fevers, sniffles and a cough. Some of them take to bed. Some of them shrug it off and go to work. Some of them go the the hospital and get themselves looked at by doctors trained in scientific medicine. Some of them, depending on how badly their schooling failed to actually educate them, will go to a practitioner of Ayurveda, Homeopathy, Unani, Chiropractic, Acupuncture, Siddhi, Reiki or might decide it is time for a colon cleanse.The people the infected exchange fluids with get infected.The supportive boyfriend who owes more of his neural processes to a steady diet of Paulo Coelho than high school biology, and thus believes love trumps everything, who then kisses his girlfriend (who has what appears to be some variant of generic flu) on the lips… gets infected.The young and harassed medical intern who took a mouth swab of one of the infected without putting on a pair of gloves first (so the tip of his thumb just brushed the patient’s upper lip) and got the patient’s saliva on his thumb, and was about to wash it off but got yelled at by a harassed medical resident for being such a hypochondriac, and so delayed washing it off, and then ten minutes later forgot about it and rubbed his eyes… gets infected.↓0 hour + 10-12 days. The first rashes appear in the mouth, tongue and throat. The rashes are the most contagious. From here on, each infected person with a rash is a walking smallpox dispersal machine.More of the infected realize their illness is serious and get checked out at hospitals.The variola claims its first victims. Somewhere, someone suffers an accelerated version of the disease and dies from heart failure or fluid in the lungs. The body of the victim is brought to the mortuary.↓0 hour + 14 days. The rashes appear on the skin. They start at the forehead and work their way down over the face and across the trunk to the limbs. This spread takes less than two days. No more new rashes appear on the same person after this.Even more of the infected go to the hospitals. Most trained medical interns will be stumped by the disease (not having been trained to recognize a disease they successfully eradicated a long time ago). A few of them might confuse it with chickenpox (failing to notice the rash has involved the palms and soles, which is something chickenpox does not do). But the others, being professionals, will call in a resident, who will call in a professor or an infectious diseases specialist. One of them will figure it out.Someone in the medical community will realize what he or she is looking at.↓0 hour + 14 days + 30 seconds. The CDC will be immediately called. Quarantine measures will be taken immediately. The patient will be isolated and skin samples will be sent for microscopy, ELISA and culture.Worried relatives and other people on the quick-dial list of the infected will conglomerate at the infectious ward entrances, demanding to know what the problem is. The medical staff will keep them at bay with the infuriating but rational, “We suspect so-and-so might have a potentially infectious disease. Protocol dictated we isolate him/her until we can receive confirmation. Please be patient.” This only serves to make them more impatient.↓0 hour + 14 days + 1 hour. Microscopy returns. Guarnieri bodies are positive in some of the skin samples. The CDC is notified.Guarnieri bodies are negative in some of the skin samples. The CDC is notified.↓0 hour + 14 days + 4 hours. The ELISA test results begin to come in. Variola major positive. The CDC is notified.Hospital security is called to the containment area in force. Local law enforcement is briefed on the situation. The news is broken to the huddled clumps of anxious relatives outside the isolation wards. Some of them break down. Some go into shock. Then they turn and notice that hospital security hasn’t formed a barrier between them and the doctors, but around them. They are informed that they are all potentially infected and will have to be placed in quarantine. Some of them, usually the ones who read a lot of Ayn Rand in their twenties, start shouting about civil rights and have to be restrained. Some of them panic and try to run and have to be tackled. Most of them comply in shock.↓0 hours + 14 days + 15 hours. The CDC declares a smallpox emergency. It sends out alerts to all hospitals, clinics and healthcare centers. Trained medical staff hit Wikipedia (no time for the textbooks) and instantly go on the alert for the symptoms of smallpox. The CDC alerts all airports. Flights are instantly quarantined. The CDC alerts the media. The media promptly starts broadcasting the alert.While local and state agencies mobilize resources to cure the infected, federal agencies mobilize resources to prevent further infection. Each country mobilizes its Strategic National Stockpile, that has been formed precisely for this purpose. The SNS, if they’re lucky, will contain stocks of smallpox vaccine. If they’re really smart, they will already have these vaccines in “push packs” ready to go. The federal government simultaneously orders mass production of these vaccines.Patients exhibiting symptoms are quarantined in negative air pressure rooms wherever possible.Local and state authorities start tracking down everyone exposed to the patient and informing them of the crisis, requesting them to come in, even finding and escorting them into quarantine units.Mortuary assistants who handled any bodies with similar signs are brought in and screened.Where negative air pressure rooms are unavailable, airtight rooms are quickly equipped with HEPA filters and converted into quarantine units.Healthcare personnel wearing N95 masks and protective clothing attend to the infected patients in these units.A bunch of smartasses will take advantage of the omnipresent image of doctors in these masks tending to smallpox patients and will hawk these masks (below) at wildly inflated prices, falsely claiming these masks will protect the person from smallpox (not really, and everyone will probably wear them wrong).↓0 hours + 15 days. The rash in the first infected progresses to form papules; raised lesions that feel solid to the touch.Air force personnel that have already received the vaccine will fly push packs out to collection points for hospitals. Armed military units will pick up the packs and transport them to hospitals.Schools, TV channels and internet websites quickly form educational modules to modulate the response to the smallpox alert. The outpatient departments of hospitals and local clinics are inundated with anxious people worried their acne could be smallpox. Google will change its homepage doodle to reflect the emergency.Stampeding ensues. Law enforcement, if it wasn’t prepared already in anticipation of this, steps in now. The unruly crowds are quickly disciplined and streamlined into a semblance of order. Some people die in riots.↓0 hours + 17 days. The smallpox nodules form hollow lesions called vesicles that are filled with tissue debris.Over the course of the next 12 days, these pustules individually leak and deflate to form a crust and scab. The scabs are still infectious. The patient remains infectious until the last scab disappears.Now, if they are not treated in time, the variola will kill 30–35% of these patients. Some of them might develop a lung infection or a brain infection (encephalitis) and die faster. Which is why…↓0 hour + 17 days and any time soon. The push packs arrive at health centers. Priority levels are instituted. The healthcare personnel coming in direct contact with potential infected (friends and relatives of the infected, who have already been quarantined) are the first to be vaccinated. Any soldiers assisting in transport who were not vaccinated are also vaccinated. Then all people with a history of exposure to the disease are vaccinated. Older people who were vaccinated back in the day when smallpox wasn’t eradicated wouldn’t need the vaccine because duh.Those also in advanced stages of the rash are treated mostly with supportive therapy. They are treated using protocols similar to patients with first-degree burns: fluid resuscitation, ventilator assistance and wound care.But everyone who was vaccinated within 2–4 days of infection stands a very high chance of survival. Even people vaccinated within 4–7 days of infections stand a very good chance.Not everyone who was infected can be saved. Those who lived in isolated areas might die. Those who already had other diseases might die. Those who consciously choose to rely exclusively on Ayurveda, Homeopathy, acupuncture and other similar forms of non-scientific psychological reassurance might die, (but not before infecting far more people than the former two groups, like the a**eholes they are). The smarter among the quacks who treat this group will rush to healthcare centers begging for the very medicines they criticize. The dumber among them who actually “trust” their “science” won’t. Many of them might die.In the end, without assistance, 30% of all those infected would die. With modern medicine, that number can be dropped to the single digits.So no, it wouldn’t be the end of civilization as we know it. Put away your Mad Max cosplay costume.But even the number of the people infected would be relatively small. Smallpox was the first disease we managed to eradicate because, you see, smallpox was easy to eradicate.Diseases that become contagious before the first symptoms appear (like AIDS and the common cold) are hard to eradicate. But smallpox advertises itself all over the body right before it starts spreading its love.Diseases that linger in the host’s body for long after the symptoms subside are hard to eradicate. But smallpox leaves the person right around the time the last scab clears up.Diseases that change their identification signatures (like AIDS and influenza) from time to time are hard to develop a vaccine against. But smallpox never bothered (and never will bother) to procure more than two or three fake IDs.Of all the diseases in the world that we can beat, smallpox was one of the easiest. I say “was” because we beat it once, at the peak of its strength. We can beat it all over again.Really, diseases like smallpox are easy to beat if we have a coordinated force of technically trained operators armed with plastic and steel delivery systems that can fire lethal doses of the right stuff.Diseases of belief, however, that can cause a person to try to infect his/her own kind with smallpox, are slightly harder to beat. But then again, if we have a coordinated force of technically trained operators armed with plastic and steel delivery systems that can fire lethal doses of the right stuff, nothing is impossible.So this story isn’t over until I elaborate on what this force’s treatment protocol would be for the person who purposely dropped the vial in the first place, but that’s a better story for another time, and my expertise ends here.

Q. Can someone do a sub-internship in the USA, being a medical graduate?A. My standard answer would have been sub-internships are reserved for medical students who have not graduated. Until I saw this listing:Postgraduate Sub-Internship ProgramOtherwise, graduated physicians can apply for observerships which may or may not allow much direct patient care. Below are programs for IMG listed with the AMA.Observership Programs for International Medical GraduatesObserverships are designed to help international medical graduates (IMGs) adapt to the practice of medicine in the United States. Review the list of observerships that have registered with the AMA.American International Integrated Observership Program (MedicalObs)New applications are being accepted for 2018 positions at this time. Scholarships now available for highly competitive candidates.At MedicalObs, our focus is on the applicant’s experience. While there are many programs to choose from to help better prepare for entry into U.S. medical residency programs, what distinguishes us is our customized, integrated and individualized program curriculum designed to formulate an action plan to set applicants apart from the competition. Our values and philosophies are centered around the importance of personal growth, innovation, communication, commitment, teamwork and reliability.Length of Program4-12 weeksPreceptorsMedical Director for Hospitalist Program, Internal Medicine Physicians, Emergency Medicine Physicians, Psychiatry, SubspecialistsProgram OverviewObserving with U.S. licensed physicians in a hospital-based settingPerformance and evaluation review with chairman/program director*Letter of recommendation from chairman/program director*Certificate of completion with honors from AIIOP-MedicalObs*Review and edit of personal statement for residency applicationLive mock interview seminarsComplex clinical case reviews and live didactic sessionsAccent reduction and dialect coaching coursesAttending colloquium guest speaker series run by U.S. physician leaders and coachesExclusive alumni membership network with U.S. physicians via MedicalObsIntegrated cultural experiences with local community groups and social events*Based on a successful performance/evaluationEligibility CriteriaForeign medical graduates (FMG) from medical school and ECFMG certifiedU.S. senior graduatesU.S. FMGsNonmatched residency graduatesRecommend completion of USMLE Step 1 and Step 2Applications for Observers/PreceptorsGo to www.MedicalObs.com, click on the “apply now” section to fill out formsFor questions and enrollment, email us at [email protected] us via phone at 1 (833) 876-3627 or 1 (833) USMDOBSApplication DeadlinesWe screen applications year round.We accept and screen applications from all countries.Tuition and fees to be paid in full prior to start.AmeriClerkships Postgraduate Subinternships With Residency ProgramsLength of ProgramMinimum 4 weeks; maximum 48 weeks. Start in as little as 2 weeks.​PreceptorsProgram Directors (PDs), Associate PDs, Residency Program Faculty, Teaching Attending Physicians and ResidentsProgram OverviewAmeriClerkships Medical Society (AMS), in partnerships with Graduate Medical Education (GME) departments offers a rare opportunity for medical graduate members of AMS to enroll in Postgraduate Subinternships (PGSIs) in over 30 specialties.PGSIs are designated as AMS-PGY1CONNECT sites, meaning that AMS members have secured residency interviews and even “matched” into such hospital(s).A typical “matched” AMS member who has matched into a PGSI residency program has:Completed 12-28 weeks of PGSISecured 2-4 letters of reference directly from PGSI supervising attendingsIs a U.S. citizen or permanent residentPassed USMLE Step 3By enrolling as an AMS PGSI, medical graduates may expect to gain first-hand exposure to the inner workings of U.S. GME and medical residencies (even in 100% inpatient settings), and develop into an effective PGY1 by learning how to:Become an integral member of U.S. medical residency teams who manage acute and chronic medical problemsRotate and collaborate with top residency program faculties, teaching attending physicians, chief residents and even program directorsParticipate in teaching rounds, and possibly present in journal clubs and residency conferencesRefine history taking and physical examination skillsFormulate problem lists, prioritize medical problems, select laboratory and ancillary tests, as well as institute drug and supportive therapiesUtilize subspecialty consultative servicesDevelop definitive plans for ongoing care and follow-up of dismissed patientsUpon satisfactory completion of each PGSI clinical block, AMS PGSI will be evaluated based on the 6 ACGME Core Competencies, and may request a performance-based letter of recommendation on official GME/teaching hospital letterhead.For questions and enrollment, please contact AmeriClerkships Medical Society directly at +1 (949) 417-8980, or visit the website.Bridgeport Family Medicine Externship/Preceptorship ProgramBridgeport Family Medicine offers real hands-on experience in family medicine, internal medicine, pediatrics and urgent care medicine. The program is structured as a "mini residency program" to prepare IMGs for the U.S. medical system by using state of the art EMR/HER systems.Length of the Program:4-12 weeks, extern may start any Monday of the weekProgram OverviewThe extern interviews the patient, performs the physical exam along with attending physician and discusses differential diagnoses, management options, labs, imaging and forms a management plan. In addition, the extern will:See and manage patients with their preceptorLearn on a state-of-the-art Electronic Medical RecordImprove physical examination skillsImprove patient note taking skillsImprove history taking skillsLearn to perform EKG, Phlebotomy, PFTs and UADiscuss family medicine topics and the latest guidelines on a daily basisFor more details, visit www.usmedicalextern.com or email: [email protected] Medicine® Physician Refresher/Re-entry PreceptorshipDrexel University College of Medicine has a tuition-based structured preceptorship/observership for IMGs preparing for a U.S. residency. Preceptorships are offered in internal medicine, pediatrics, OB-GYN, surgery and anesthesia. Rotations are all on the main university campus in Philadelphia.Length of Program6-week rotations; repeatable once. The course starts on the 1st Monday of every month and is first come, first serve. The application process takes 4–6 weeks.Program OverviewAttend inpatient and outpatient rounds, core conferences, lecture and learn about medical care in the United StatesAttend didactics: morning reports, noon reports, grand rounds and clinical case discussionsHomework will be assigned to hone in on medical knowledge, clinical reasoning and communication skillsMeet weekly with preceptor to review the exercises and receive feedbackFind more details on the program or call (215) 762-2580.Griffin Medical Clinical Observership ProgramThe application process for 2017-2018 runs through Sept. 30, 2017. New applications are accepted during this time only.The program is no longer accepting applications for October 2017 - January 2018. All positions for time have been filled. Only applications for the months of February 2018 - June 2018 are being accepted.Length of Program4 weeksProgram OverviewTo familiarize yourself with the U.S. medical systemTo become proficient in presentation of history and physical examinations on daily roundsTo become proficient in ascertaining patients' acute symptoms and making a therapeutic planTo learn to write daily progress notesTo learn how to interpret basic lab tests and radiology data such as blood, urine serum, X-rays, etc.Eligibility CriteriaForeign medical student graduates must be:Graduates of a medical schoolMust be ECFMG certifiedApplicationsThe following are required to be submitted to the Committee for consideration of participation in the program:A completed application or ERAS application (for ERAS, months for which the candidate is applying should be indicated in the email. In the event that ERAS application is not available, a common application form can be substituted)A cover letter detailing desired rotationA curriculum vitaeAt least 1 letter of reference from a clinical supervisor or advisor, or an attending physicianUSMLE score reportsMedical school diplomaECFMG certificateTOEFL score report ( if available)Documentation of up-to-date immunization record (including flu shot during flu season (Oct-March)Proof of health insurance coverageA recent photograph for identificationCopy of passport and valid visaApplication DeadlineA completed application must be received no later than Oct. 1Formal start date is usually the first working day of a calendar monthTiming is at the discretion of the program coordinator and teaching service schedulesVisit Griffin Medical’s website for more details and to apply.International Observership ProgramAllegheny General and West Penn hospitals host observers from around the world. This program was designed for physicians, nurses, pharmacists, medical students, physiotherapists, technologists, technicians and health administrators.Length of Program4 weeksThe observership is a specific exchange program in which the observer accompanies the medical staff through their daily hospital routine, sharing experiences with doctors, residents, staff and students. This program is not for academic credit.Program OverviewObservation of the clinical care of patientsParticipation in lectures, grand round and other related eventsNo privileges are granted to participate in the clinical treatment of patients to assist in any medical procedures, test or surgeriesFor inquiries about international educational opportunities available through Allegheny General, call International Services (412) 359-5269 or email [email protected] Memorial HospitalIt is the policy of the Public Health Trust to accept physicians or resident physicians desiring to participate as an observer/rotator at Jackson Health System facilities. All requests for observer/rotators must be reviewed and approved by Risk Management.Length of ProgramObserverships may last up to 4 weeks (1 month), longer if written approval by the department is obtained.Program OverviewThe individual desiring to participate must provide the Office of Physician Services all required documentation as set forth in this policy in order to be considered for a rotation or observership. Jackson Health System will not provide professional liability coverage for any resident for an outside institution. If the home institution will not provide the coverage, then they will be classified as observer status only. An observer is a health care professional or student who will not provide patient care or have direct patient contact. Observers differ from students in an academic program in that the observership is not an educational requirement of any academic program (see administrative policy 389 for students).Observer may be one of the following:Physicians (foreign or domestic)Registered nurses (foreign or domestic)Other health professionals (e.g. radiology, respiratory therapy, psychology, pharmacy technicians, etc.)Students not covered under an existing affiliation agreementObserverships may be in an inpatient or outpatient setting and must be approved by the Jackson Health System facility’s department(s) director(s) of the area being observed. For physicians, approval is needed from the associate/chief medical officer. For residents, approval is needed from the GME office. For nurses, approval is needed from the director of patient care services and/or the chief nursing officer. For all other students, approval is needed from the associate/chief medical officer.For more information, view the Policy & Procedure Manual.Contact InformationGraduate Medical Education OfficeJackson Memorial HospitalInstitute 118B1611 NW 12th Avenue, Miami, Florida 33136Phone: 305-585-4310Fax: 305-585-4309For more information on visiting medical students, please visit the information page.Somerset Family MedicineHands-on externship/observership in outpatient family medicine in Michigan for FMG, international medical graduates, Caribbean medical students and Caribbean graduates. Outpatient family medicine office in Troy and Sterling Heights, Michigan.Length of ProgramMinimum 4 weeks; maximum 12 weeksPreceptorNeil Jaddou, M.D., M.S. board-certified family medicine, clinical assistant professor of family medicine and community health, Wayne State School of Medicine and Oakland Beaumont Medical School. Staff at 4 hospitals and affiliated with St. John Oakland-Macomb medical students teaching program.Program OverviewBecome efficient in electronic medical or health records.Get familiar with the health system in the United States.Practice on presenting a patient and doing history and physical examinations.Learn how to interpret basic lab tests and radiology data such as blood, urine, X-rays, EKG and PFT.Expand your medical knowledge and build on your differential diagnosis.Improve your scores on CK, CS and USMLE Step 3.Tour the hospitals and attend conferences when available.Online lectures given by Dr. Jaddou on common problems in family medicine, taken from future textbook by professor Jaddou.Opportunity to publish patient education article in the community newspaper.Receive a letter of recommendation at the end of the rotation that has a university and hospital logo.Receive a certificate of completion at the end of externship. There is also a possibility of finishing with honors and student of the month award.Opportunity to be chief extern and teach others.Volunteer in the church clinic once a week.Eligibility CriteriaUSMLE not required.Immediate availability. Start any day that is convenient for you.Must be living in U.S. to apply. We do not sponsor visas.All visas are accepted as long as you are physically present in U.S.ApplicationVisit www.americanexternship.com for details on price and submitting an application. For additional information or questions email us at [email protected].