Family Medicine

Catalog description

The Family Medicine Clerkship is specifically designed as a 5-week clinical clerkship rotation providing students with exposure to and training across the life span to include infants, children, adolescents, adults, and the elderly in the family medicine practice setting. The clerkship focus is on epidemiology, pathophysiology, clinical presentation, interviewing and physical examination, laboratory, imaging, and procedural evaluation, medical education and counseling, treatment, management, and preventative healthcare specifically related to family medicine in a family practice setting. Each student is assigned a clinical site and preceptor at the inception of the clinical year. Prerequisites: Successful completion of the didactic year of the Physician Assistant Studies curriculum. The pre-requisites of MS 504C, 508B, 511, 512, 513 and 514 are all required.