Big Bend Rural Healthcare Elec

Catalog description

The elective will allow the student to have an experience rotating with family physicians in a federally qualified health center providing health care in the ambulatory setings of Alpine, Marfa and Presidio, Texas. Inpatient expierences, including maternity care, with these physicians will be performed at Big Bend Regional Medical Center, a critical access 25 bed hospital, in Alpine, Texas. Opportunities to scrub on surgeries will also be available. House calls are also a component of this rotation. (2 or 4 weeks, 4 weeks preferred for continuity of experience)