FAMP 731A Family Medicine Continuity Core

Credits: 12
The purpose of the Family Medicine Core Clinical Experience is for students to learn how access, continuity, comprehensiveness, coordination, and context of care by family medicine physicians improves the health of individuals, families, and communities. The Continuity Core Clinical Experience is to augment the Family Medicine Core Experience with an additional four weeks in the same clinical environment to allow for an enhanced continuity experience. Working with their clinic, students tailor the experience to allow exploration of specific aspects of the field of Family Medicine in greater depth (for example additional adolescent, maternity, or geriatric care, inpatient, procedures, or sports medicine). Students will learn how access, continuity, comprehensiveness, coordination, and context of care improve the health of individuals, families, and communities. Students will also learn about the patient centered medical home, population health and the role of the physician in health advocacy and will complete a clinic-based project. Dedicated time is built in for project work and medical knowledge study. Students should approach this experience with flexibility of schedule and transportation as students will care for patients of all ages with chronic and acute disease processes, also addressing preventative medicine, in a variety of settings, which may include ambulatory clinics, nursing facilities, hospitals, home visits, group visits, athletic training rooms, and urgent care. Students will simultaneously satisfy requirements for: Family Medicine core clinical experience and the continuity experience.

Graded: Pass/No pass
May be taken only once for credit
Also offered as: FAMP 731RA