Course Number: FMME____ /ACSM 401-53

Course Title: Exploring the Breadth of Family Medicine – Coastal AHEC

Faculty: Jennifer Yates, MD

Prerequisites: Completion of Third-Year Family Medicine Clerkship

Offered: Blocks 8, 10 (Availability depends on Selective ACSM 401-53)

Min. Enrollment: Max. Enrollment: 1

Duration: 1 elective period

Meeting Times: 8:00 a.m.

Credit Hours: 6

Meeting Place: Coastal Family Medicine

Learning Objectives: At end of course students will be able to:
• Experience the breadth of Family Medicine.
• More effectively incorporate behavioral medicine into care of patients.
• More effectively take care of women in primary care settings.

Learning Activities: The focus will be multifaceted, incorporating several different areas appropriate for family medicine. Areas include behavioral health; rural medicine; women's health. The student can identify 2 of the 3 areas of greatest interest to them for emphasis. Areas should be chosen prior to the rotation and the rotation will be designed to include focus in those areas. Joe Kertesz will be involved in the design of the behavioral health component, and will incorporate video precepting and clinic time. The Penslow Clinic Rural site is willing to commit to one day/week to allow the students some rural medicine exposure. Dr. Yates will develop the women's health focus, with the goal of incorporating prenatal visits, possibly colposcopy or other women-focused procedures, and well woman exams.

As part of the selective, the students are responsible for a project. This will entail the students preparing a topic for a lecture/presentation at the Residency PM Conference series at the end of their 4th week. The topic could involve one or more of the areas of interest. This will assure that the rotation is educationally sound and will incorporate an academic medicine component, as well.