Course Catalog

 
02-303 FAMILY MEDICINE CLERKSHIP
Department FAMILY & COMMUNITY MEDICINE Campus Montgomery
Course Type(s) Clerkship Facility UAB Health Center Montgomery
Course Director VIKAS GUPTA, MD Enrollment Limit 4
Contact BRITNEY SELLERS Enrollment Minimum 1
Email britneyc@uab.edu Address UAB Montgomery Regional Medical Campus
2119 E South Blvd., Suite 304
Montgomery, AL 361162946
Phone (334) 398-0853 Fax (334) 284-7542
Weeks
Normally Offered
See Offering Dates		 1-4, 5-8, 9-12, 13-16, 18-21, 22-25, 28-31, 32-35, 36-39, 40-43, 45-48, 49-52
Prerequisites SUCCESSFUL COMPLETION OF THE FIRST TWO YEARS OF MEDICAL SCHOOL AND USMLE STEP I EXAM. 
Specific Clerkship Prerequisites:
Visiting Students
No LCME students accepted.
No osteopathic students accepted.
Course Description The Family Medicine Clerkship is a required 4 week rotation taken during the third year of medical school at the UASOM. On the Montgomery campus this rotation is coupled with Rural Medicine to form an integrated eight week Family and Community Medicine block that is designed to foster clinical competencies within the frame work of the family physician's approach to medicine, one that emphasizes the provision of continuous, comprehensive, and coordinated care for a broad spectrum of patients in the ambulatory setting. To ensure that students gain exposure to the diversity that is inherent to Family Medicine the Family Medicine clerkship includes assignments in patient care settings TBD. Because of the variety of patient care settings offered, students are exposed to all facets of Family Medicine. While on the clerkship students are expected to become proficient in interviewing patients, performing physical examinations, and formulating differential diagnoses based on their histories and examinations. Students are also expected to improve their interpretation of ECG, as well as basic radiology, and to demonstrate basic suturing skills.
Where To Report TBD - Montgomery
Requirements Students are required to attend orientation at which they will receive a final schedule including assignment to preceptors in each of the three patient care settings above, didactic sessions, and workshops; attendance and participation in all these scheduled activities is mandatory. All students are required to keep an E-Value patient log during the clerkship and to make a 15-20 minute Ambulatory Case Presentation on a patient with a common complaint seen during their out-patient experience.
Evaluation Clinical Component - 65%. NBME Shelf Exam - 35%.
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