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This course requires application using VSAS or other arrangements made by the student. Off-Campus Add Form Required.
Course Description: This elective gives students the opportunity to pursue educational opportunities in other residencies or practices outside the MCG system.
Category: Clinical
Eligible: All
Length: 4 weeks
Course Description: Students will work in a variety of practice locations in order to gain experience in the evaluation and management of patients with undifferentiated clinical problems encountered in the practice of Family Medicine. Note that this course is designed for students to work in a variety of private practice locations in the state but does not meet the requirements for the Sub-I selective.
Category: Non-Clinical
Eligible: All
Length: 4 weeks
Course Description: This course is designed to allow students to pursue research opportunities in Family Medicine.
Category: Clinical
Eligible: Enrichment Only
Length: 4 weeks
Course Description: This course is designed to give the students a clinical experience in Sports Medicine. Students will have the opportunity to experience the practice in the clinic setting as well as in the field-side delivery of care.
Category: Clinical
Eligible: Enrichment Only
Length: 4 weeks
Course Description: Students will rotate in a rural setting where you will see patients, performing history and physicals examinations, and assist in the care management with consideration of the challenges to care that exist in this environment. Opportunities to perform procedures available at the site will be afforded as circumstances permit. Students will be expected to be engaged in all clinical care and settings including out of the primary office setting if necessary (e.g. nursing home rounds, home visits, etc...). Availability will be at the discretion of individual faculty practices.
Category: Clinical
Eligible: All
Length: 4 weeks
Course Description: Students will rotate in a variety of settings in order to appreciate the problems facing the homeless and other vulnerable populations and to gain an understanding of the resources available in the community to help these populations.
Category: Clinical
Eligible: Enrichment Only
Length: 4 weeks
Course Description: This course is designed to give students who are interested in Family Medicine exposure to the procedures commonly performed by Family Physicians including women's health procedures, simple skin procedures, joint injections as well as opportunities for procedural integrative approaches such as osteopathic manipulation and acupuncture.
Category: Clinical
Eligible: All
Length: 4 weeks
Course Description: The course will engage students in researching key health policy topics and developing advocacy strategies to influence policy in these areas. Students will be engaged in discussions about required readings, literature reviews, and data analysis. Group discussions and small group work will be utilized to complete tasks. Sometimes group members may include full time faculty / staff assigned to certain topics and other times groups may be composed of solely students with a faculty lead. Students will required to conduct extensive literature reviews and acquire latest research findings in topic area of interest, develop and participate in advocacy strategic planning, and develop and scholarly work products (e.g. fact sheets, position white papers, resolutions, etc.) and utilize these as indicated with various advocate groups.
Category: Clinical
Eligible: Clerkship Plus
Length: 4 weeks (Available Beginning in July 2026)
Course Description: This hands-on elective provides medical students with an immersive experience in Osteopathic Manipulative Medicine (OMM) within the context of Family Medicine. The elective emphasizes the integration of osteopathic principles and manipulative techniques in a primary care setting. Students will gain exposure to the full spectrum of OMM as applied to acute and chronic musculoskeletal conditions, sports injuries, somatic dysfunction, and structural contributions to systemic disease. Under the supervision of experienced osteopathic physicians, participants will refine their palpation skills, learn patient-centered diagnostic approaches, and apply direct and indirect techniques including muscle energy, counterstrain, myofascial release, and facilitated positional release, amongst others.
Course Description: This enrichment phase elective, located at the Georgia War Veterans Nursing Home (GWVNH) in Augusta, Georgia, consists of direct clinical care of Georgia Veterans under the supervision of the GWVNH clinical director in coordination with assigned residents, student peers, and interdisciplinary learners. Activities include interdisciplinary service through clinical care and performance of comprehensive geriatric assessments of new admissions, participation in daily rounds with the medical team, attendance at Family Medicine morning reports and other structured learning opportunities as time permits, completion of assigned readings, and presentation of geriatrics or palliative care topic to the medical team and nursing staff. These activities are to further completion of the following course objectives:
1. To increase you medical knowledge in the fields of geriatrics and palliative care.
2. To increase you clinical skills in providing care to geriatric and palliative care patients.
3 To provide direct patient care under direct supervision of geriatric patients residing in a long-term care facility.
4. To experience being on a multidisciplinary care team in the provision of geriatric and palliative care.
5. To develop the necessary skills and attitudes to provide competent and compassionate care for the elderly and their loved ones.
6. To develop fundamental knowledge in the discipline of medical ethics and develop moral reasoning skills. Explore how your fundamental assumptions shape your moral framework.
Course Description:
Course Description: This non-clinical elective will expose students to multiple aspects of lifestyle medicine to include nutrition, movement, sleep, and well-being/connectedness. They will explore the importance of lifestyle medicine's benefits in chronic diseases such as diabetes and obesity. They will learn how to effectively implement this into primary care practice and in their own lives.
Course Description: The purpose of this elective is to provide peer support to M3 students transitioning into the Family Medicine Primary Care clerkship. Student Chiefs will orient M3 students to expectations of the FMPC clerkship and student roles. The chiefs are expected to be available to the M3 students on the FMPC rotation for support with knowledge and skills required in the clerkship. Students interested in being a Student Chief need to apply and will be selected by the faculty. Students selected to be chiefs must attend a training session during the first week of the rotation and do a project determined by the Site Clerkship Director and student Chief.
*The duration of this course is 4 weeks but you will only receive 2 weeks of credit.