Ambulatory Medicine

Catalog description

The Ambulatory Medicine elective occurs in a clinical environment in an outpatient clinic setting. Students will gain a foundation for the principles of primary care including differential diagnosis, periodic health examinations, screening for disease, psychosocial aspects of health and illness, nutrition and medicine. Students will actively participate in discussions of common ambulatory problems. Students will work closely with an attending physician and can assume responsibility for clinical decision making at a level appropriate to his/her experience