The Sovah Health Graduate Medical Education Program hosts third-year and fourth-year medical students in a variety of rotations in hospital and physician practice settings. The program strives to provide a patient-centric, evidence-based medicine educational experience in which learners gain valuable skills in examination techniques, differential diagnoses & therapeutic planning. Under the mentorship of attending physicians, students learn to take a primary role in the care of their patients, participate in procedures, and gain professional interpersonal communication skills. Students work closely with interns, senior residents, residency faculty members, and local osteopathic and allopathic physicians who are “hands-on” and committed to providing the best possible learning experiences for learners in each discipline.
Sovah Health is a core site for 3rd and 4th year medical students from Edward Via College of Osteopathic Medicine (VCOM) and Liberty University College of Osteopathic Medicine (LUCOM). Rotations are scheduled by the Medical Student Coordinator at Sovah Health - Danville, who in turn works with the respective Clinical Coordinators at the medical schools.
Sovah Health - Danville is a core site for VCOM and LUCOM students for these third-year rotations: Internal Medicine I (Hospital Medicine), Internal Medicine II (Cardiology or Outpatient IM), General Surgery, Pediatrics, OB/GYN, Family Medicine, Underserved Care (LUCOM), and Rural Clinical Primary Care (VCOM).
Fourth-year elective and audition rotations are available on a limited basis: Cardiology, Critical Care, ENT, Emergency Medicine, Family Medicine, Geriatrics, Hematology and Oncology, Infectious Diseases, Inpatient Internal Medicine, Outpatient Internal Medicine, Nephrology, Neurology, Pain Management, Pulmonary Medicine, Rheumatology, and Urology. Additional rotations may be available upon request.
The Sovah Health Graduate Medical Education program accepts a limited number of applications for visiting medical students to complete audition rotations in Family Medicine and Internal Medicine (Inpatient Hospital Medicine and Critical Care). Fourth-year medical students may apply for audition rotations by contacting the Medical Student Coordinator at Tyrell.Payne@LPNT.net. Visiting student rotations are approved based on the rotation(s) requested and whether the program’s master schedule can accommodate the request.
Audition students work one-on-one with residents, CORE faculty, and the FM residency program director to experience outpatient family medicine at its finest. The experience includes clinical time in the downtown state-of-the-art residency clinic caring for patients of all ages with a wide breadth of acute and chronic conditions. There are opportunities for outpatient procedures, OMT, nursing home rounds, prenatal clinic, and practice management.
CRITICAL CARE: Students play an active role in the caring of patients in the ICU. During this robust educational experience, students are part of a teaching team involving residents, interns, students and Critical Care Faculty. Audition students enjoy the thorough educational teaching rounds, mini-didactic sessions, and hands-on learning opportunities with the intensivists, including the IM residency program director.
INPATIENT MEDICINE TEAMS: Internal Medicine teams (senior residents, interns, and students) are trained and supervised by residency core faculty. Students carry their own patients, participate in teaching rounds with intentional instruction, and write patient progress notes using student documentation.
A variety of housing options are available for core students in Danville, including downtown lofts in the River District, popular with students and residents. The Sovah Medical Residency Program publishes a guide listing property management companies and available properties in the spring of each year.
Director of Student Medical Education
Family Medicine Residency Program Director
