Advanced Courses in Family Medicine

Did you know that……

• Fellowship training in obstetrics, geriatrics, sports medicine is available to Family Medicine physicians?
• Many Family Medicine physicians hold leadership positions in County and State Health Departments?
• Many Family Medicine physicians do NIH funded research at major Academic Centers?
• Primary care physicians make up 89% of physicians working in Community Health Centers and the majority of those are Family Medicine physicians?
• Training in Family Medicine ideally positions you for a career in international work?

Family Medicine training prepares you for a broad spectrum of careers and these new courses will allow you to explore areas that interest you most. Designed to build on the skills learned in the Family Medicine Clerkship, enrollment for these courses is limited to ensure that students can develop close mentoring relationships with faculty who are national leaders in Family Medicine. Our list of new courses is below:

Sports Medicine in Family Medicine
Obstetrics in Family Medicine
Global Health in Family Medicine
New Models of Care for the Underserved
Procedures in Family Medicine
Geriatrics in Family Medicine
Rural Medicine in Family Medicine
Exploring the Breadth of Family Medicine
Urban Medicine in Family Medicine
Occupational and Environmental Medicine

These courses fulfill your Ambulatory Care Selective requirement

Permission is required to enroll: Please e-mail to lisa_slatt@med.unc.edu:

a) the name of the course you want
b) the elective period
c) one paragraph explaining your interest in the selective and how you see it benefiting your career

Last edited 3-31-2006