Family Medicine

Catalog description

This is a clinical, ambulatory rotation during which students adopt their preceptor’s schedule and community engagements and meant to further our students’ family medicine experiences within the community. This rotation is predominantly outpatient with attention to chronic and acute conditions and longitudinal care across a wide range of patients, utilizing the patient-centered interview, and can include aspects of the business of medicine within a changing healthcare system and community projects, where possible. Students are evaluated via observation, leading to a final evaluation, and will strengthen their history and physical-taking, differential diagnoses, and pharmaceutical knowledge, all connected to evidence-based medicine. Course may be repeated up to unlimited credit hours.