Family and Community Medicine Clerkship - Student Requirements

In order for students to accomplish the performance goals, it has been determined that they should be required to complete certain tasks during their Family and Community Medicine Clerkship. The students should evaluate, by appropriate historical and physical assessments, a minimum of 120 patients in the outpatient setting and a minimum of six to eight hospitalized patients. At least one home visit should be made. The students should also observe and participate in diagnostic and therapeutic procedures. They should subsequently present the patient's clinical case summaries orally to the faculty and make appropriate written notations in the patient's medical record and in the Patient Experience Logbook.

During the clerkship, the students are expected to develop a knowledge base of diagnostic problems commonly seen in the practice of family and community medicine. To assist the students in the development of this knowledge base, required reading assignments concerning frequent presenting problems in family and community medicine have been established. Throughout all patient evaluations, the concepts of comprehensive, continuous and preventive health care are emphasized, as well as the impact of illness on the eventual health of the family.