Family Medicine Clerkship
Goals
During
the family medicine clerkship, third-year students will learn to:
- Provide personal care for individuals and families as the physician
of first contact and continuing care in health as well as in illness.
(IO-3, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10)
- Assess and manage acute and chronic medical problems frequently
encountered in the community. (IO-6, 7, 8, 9)
- Provide anticipatory health care using education, risk reduction,
and health enhancement strategies. (IO-6, 7)
- Provide continuous as well as episodic health care, not limited
by a specific disease, patient characteristics, or setting of the patient
encounter. (IO-6, 7, 8, 9)
- Provide and coordinate comprehensive care of complex and severe
problems using biomedical, social, personal, and economic and community
resources including consultation and referral. (IO-1, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10)
- Establish effective physician-patient relationships by using appropriate
interpersonal communication skills to provide quality health care.
(IO-1, 10)
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