FMP5000 Family and Community Medicine Clerkship

This six-week clerkship provides supervised exposure to the evaluation and management of patients at the ambulatory setting of family and community medicine with undifferentiated health problems. Introduction to evaluation and management of health problems requiring hospitalization which routinely confront the Family Physician.

The fundamentals of problem-solving in these clinical settings emphasized in all patient-care encounters. Emphasis on concepts of health maintenance and comprehensive and longitudinal health care in the setting of the family. The student's clinical exposure is provided by family and community medicine residency programs and private group practice teaching sites.

Family and community medicine residency teaching sites are located at: Augusta University Health, Augusta; The Medical Center, Columbus; Memorial Health University Medical Center, Savannah; Floyd Medical Center, Rome; Phoebe Putney Memorial Hospital, Albany and Dwight Eisenhower Army Medical Center, Fort Gordon.

Group practice teaching sites are located in Augusta, Blackshear, Jesup, Villa Rica, Tifton, Thomson, Waynesboro and Moultrie, GA and Edgefield and North Augusta, SC.