Core Clerkship in Family Medicine (Chattanooga)

Catalog description

This is a face-to-face clinical rotation. This clerkship is a 6-week clinical experience during which students participate in the breadth of family medicine. Students spend 2 weeks in the inpatient setting caring for medical and obstetrical patients and 4 weeks in an office-based practice, either community or residency-based. Students will experience a broad range of clinical presentations and participate in both inpatient and office-based procedures. Every clerk will work at least one day each week on inpatient until 9pm est. Students are responsible for writing H+Ps, progress notes, and discharge summaries while on inpatient, as well as completing several other written assignments, readings, and logging diagnoses and procedures (community preceptors also allow student EMR access). This clerkship is one of several site options for the core clerkship in Family Medicine. Optionally, with letter of intent, students may also experience work with Clinica Medicos (Minority/inner city medical experience) and Nursing Home (Geriatric medical care).