Primary Care Clerkship

Catalog description

This five-week clerkship in primary care/community health provides the student with practical clinical experience in working with chronic care and/or ambulatory medical patients. 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, rehabilitation, chronic care and ambulatory clinics. 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.