Intern Orientation Guide
MEDICINE
UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL
2021 Perdido Street
New Orleans, LA 70112
(504) 903-3000
Parking: Roman Street Parking Garage, 425 South Roman Street
You must have LSU ID to get in/out of hospital doorways
Call rooms: 1st floor, behind the ER dept. You will get your own access key card.
Log on to computer desktop with your username and password.
Click on Start, go to “My Computer” Click on “M drive” M Drive click on Rotations, then Dept of Medicine You will see Resources and Patient List Resources( Firm Resources: UH phone number list Hospital formulary Lasix IV protocol PORT score Framingham risk score, etc.)
Patient List: ward team lists and **patient tracking sheets V Drive click on MCL folder, then today’s date This is the “on call list” for all ward teams and subspecialities, for calling in consults
Clinical Package this is a folder on your desktop where you will find:
- CLIQ: program for looking up labs, your same username + pswd
- Up-To-Date
- EKG Web: program for looking up old EKGs
- Consent forms
Touro Hospital
1401 Foucher Street
NOLA 70115
(504) 897-7011 - Parking: Delachaise Parking Garage across the street from the Emergency Dept. Sign back of parking garage ticket and include your Touro ID # which you will be given at the monthly orientation. (free parking)
- To enter hospital, take parking garage elevator to 3rd floor. Turn left as you get off the elevator and cross the walkway into the hospital. You will pass a welcome desk then a nurses’ station on your right. Take the 1st stairs on your right to the 4th floor then go right to reach the morning report room. The computer in the morning report room has the ward teams’ patient lists, patient tracking sheets, and several helpful desktop folders (articles, lectures, etc). Helpful hospital phone #s are at the bottom of the patient lists.
- Take same flight of stairs to 2nd floor, turn right, then 1st left to reach doctors’ lounge.
- ER is on 1st floor.
- Call rooms: Interns: 5th floor Upper levels: 6th floor. You will get a key.
- Touro has Up-To-Date access on all computers.
- NetAccess is the program to check labs. Username + passwd given out at orientation each month.
- You will be given your Physician ID # for parking, dictations, etc.
- You will get a Touro ID badge which you must wear at all times.
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Ochsner Kenner Hospital
180 West Esplanade Ave,
Kenner, LA 70065- Parking: I would park in the front parking lot and enter through the main entrance the first day. You can park in the back parking lot for more convenient hospital access after that.
- During orientation you will get username and password for using computer system. Orientation is thorough and specific to Kenner; there you will find out all you need to know for the month.
- Call rooms: 4th floor
- Up-To-Date access
- You should practice and be comfortable with: H+Ps, Admit orders, SOAP notes (daily progress notes), D/C summaries
Helpful websites: - Up-To-Date
- E Medicine
- MD Calc
- LSU online library resources
- www.lsumedpeds.com
- https://www.medschool.lsuhsc.edu/internal_medicine/residency/residents/
- Residency Partner Website https://lsuhsc.residencypartner.com/ Log all duty hours and procedures Complete monthly rotation evaluations Case quizzes Intern Orientation Guide
Typical Admit Diagnoses:- Community-Acquired Pneumonia
- HF exacerbation
- Chest Pain (R/O ACS)
- Asthma/ COPD exacerbation
- GI bleed
- Morning Report Presentation Guidelines
PEDIATRICS
- Children’s Hospital
200 Henry Clay Ave - Parking: Go all the way down Henry Clay and park to left of hospital. Enter hospital through main entrance and take the main elevators to the 4th floor. Ask someone on that floor where to find the residents’ lounge.
- Morning report: 2nd floor, main elevators
- Typical Admit Diagnoses:
- Newborn fever/ meningitis
- RSV bronchiolitis
- Cellulitis
- Asthma
- Dehydration (calculate and replace fluid deficit)
- Pneumonia
Helpful websites
www.amion.com
www.aap.org
www.pedialink.org to complete 20 Prep ?s each month, when on Medicine AND Peds
www.utdol.com
www.lsumedpeds.com
CONTACT INFORMATION
MED PEDS CHIEFS (do not hesitate to contact us!)
Steven Smith stevensmith5000@gmail.com
Tammy Harvey harveta1@yahoo.com
MED PEDS COORDINATOR
Vilma Cervantes (very helpful resource for all of your Med Peds questions) vcerva@lsuhsc.edu 7th floor Lions’ Club Bldg (504) 568-3792
MED PEDS PROGRAM DIRECTOR
Betty Lo-Blais, MD
blo@lsuhsc.edu
Med/Peds Clinics
- LSU Med/Peds Clinic
- 2820 Napoleon Ave, Suite 890
Drs Wallis, McDermott, Lo
(504) 412-1366- Dr. Quang Vu (Harvey Med Care)
3709 Westbank Expy # B
Harvey, LA 70058
(504) 348-2310