Family Medicine Clerkship

Catalog description

This five-week clerkship course in family medicine provides the student with practical clinical experience in working with the ambulatory medical patient. This preceptorship is intended to augment and develop directed data collection skills emphasizing a wide range of primary care medical problems. This rotation focuses on exposing the student to preventive care and chronic care. Emphasis is placed on data gathering, differential diagnosis, patient management, maintenance of medical records, performance of diagnostic and therapeutic skills, follow up care and referral, and the provision of health education and counseling. Students learn the value of an interdisciplinary approach to primary care. Further, he or she will gain an appreciation for practice management and the role a PA may play in a community health and learn the value of an interdisciplinary approach to primary care/community health.