FAMP 709D Community Family Medicine - PeaceHealth Sacred Heart

Credits: 4
The course will provide a community experience with a Family Medicine clinic or combined Family Medicine and Internal Medicine primary care clinic. Students will spend time with chronic disease management, in-clinic office procedures or preventative care. Students may also gain experience with older adult populations and round in skilled nursing facilities to gain greater understanding of transition of care needs, palliative care and management of patients through the lifespan. As much as possible, students will be given opportunities to demonstrate skills at the level of an incoming intern. In clinic, students will see patients independently and observe or be observed by their preceptors during the course of patient care. Under the supervision of their preceptors, students will be expected to write chart notes and to help provide ancillary care. PeaceHealth Sacred Heart Medical Center has three hospitals; University District in Eugene, RiverBend in Springfield, and Cottage Grove Hospital in Cottage Grove, Oregon (locations are approximately 100 miles south of the main OHSU campus). Students participating in rotations in this community will work one on one with their attending with increased autonomy.

Graded: Pass/No pass
May be taken only once for credit