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Outpatient Family Medicine - AIMMC

PREREQUISITES AND PLACEMENT IN THE CURRICULUM: Students must have completed the M3 Core Clerkship in Family Medicine.

PURPOSE: The UIC/Illinois Masonic Family Practice Outpatient Experience was developed as an opportunity for the 4th-year medical student to experience what it is like to be a family physician.

COMPETENCIES: At completion, the student will be expected to accomplish the following objectives:
•  To assess and manage acute and chronic medical problems frequently encountered in the community;
•  To provide anticipatory health care using education, risk reduction, and health enhancement strategies;
•  To provide and coordinate comprehensive care of complex and severe problems using biomedical, social, personal, economic, and community resources, including consultation and referral; and
•  To establish effective physician-patient relationships by using appropriate interpersonal communication skills to provide quality health care.

INSTRUCTIONAL FEATURES:
•  Case Management Problems -- the student will be given a “paper-case” per week. The student will then develop a management plan which will be discussed with the rotation coordinator.
•  Modeling -- the student will be exposed to different teaching attendings in their practice settings.
•  Preceptorship -- the student will be expected to see patients in the family practice center, to discuss the patient’s problems with the preceptor, and to develop management plans.
   
ASSESSMENT: The rotation coordinator will assess the students’ work regarding the case management problems. The preceptor will assess the students’ skills in the office setting.

ADMINISTRATIVE INFORMATION:

Program Number: ELEC 687
Location: AIMMC
Program Director: R.Guthman, M.D., Theresa Johnson (Coordinator), teresa.johnson@advocatehealth.com
Telephone: 773-296-7059

Duration: 4 Weeks
Night Call: No
Weekends: No

Students Accepted: 1
Housestaff Used as Faculty: No
Lectures/Conferences/Faculty Contact: 5
Laboratory/Independent Study: 0
Outpatient: 35
Inpatient: 0
Total Hours /Week: 40

KEY WORDS:
Note: Clinical electives at Advocate hospitals (ACMC, AIMMC, ALGH) are only available to students from LCME and AOA accredited institutions.