Course Catalog

 
30-230 FAMILY MEDICINE ROTATION - MEDICAL SCIENTIST TRAINING PROGRAM
Department FAMILY & COMMUNITY MEDICINE Campus Birmingham
Course Type(s) Elective Facility UAB Family Medicine
Course Director SAMEERA DAVULURI, MD Enrollment Limit 10
Contact FAMILY MEDICINE Enrollment Minimum 1
Email fmstudenteduc@uabmc.edu Address UAB Department of Family & Community Medicine
930 20th Street South, Suite 331B
Birmingham, AL 35205
Phone (205) 975-2288 Fax (205) 996-3468
Weeks
Normally Offered
See Offering Dates		 1-2, 1-4, 3-4, 5-6, 5-8, 7-8, 9-10, 9-12, 11-12, 13-14, 13-16, 15-16, 18-19, 18-21, 20-21, 22-23, 22-25, 24-25, 28-29, 28-31, 30-31, 32-33, 32-35, 34-35, 36-37, 36-39, 38-39, 40-41, 40-43, 42-43, 45-46, 45-48, 47-48, 49-50, 49-52, 51-52
Prerequisites Enrolled in UAB Heersink SOM Medical Scientist Training Program 
Specific Clerkship Prerequisites:
Visiting Students
No LCME students accepted.
No osteopathic students accepted.
Course Contact will provide details about approvals for this course.
Course Description The rotation provides early 3rd year medical students with an ambulatory family medicine experience in academic and community family medicine clinics. This experience aims to improve student's knowledge and clinical skills to a wide range of clinical problems encountered in Family Medicine. Students will be assigned to work with faculty and family medicine residents in their respective clinics during their rotation. They are required to actively participate in patient care that is applicable to their level of training. At this level it is expected that students should be able to able to obtain a history, perform appropriate and necessary physical exam, documentation in electronic health records and participate in clinical decision making. These should be done under the guidance and instructions by the preceptor.
Where To Report Preceptor's office. This can be done with any of our Family Medicine or Rural Medicine preceptors anywhere in Alabama.
Requirements Attendance at clinics, noon conferences and other as determined by the supervising faculty.
Evaluation Final review will be performed by the supervising faculty and will include input by other faculty dependent upon actual time spent with those individuals. Evaluation will be based upon a pass fail system. Completion of the UASOM clerkship evaluation form may be necessary to communicate strengths and any problems encountered.
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