Family Medicine Clerkship (6 weeks)  MED MS 315  In the Family
Medicine Clerkship, students work in high volume ambulatory care
practices of family physicians and residency programs. In the
course of the clerkship students learn: to understand and
promote a patient centered model of care; to understand Family
Medicine approaches to seeing and evaluating patients and
families with undifferentiated problems, and the clinical
reasoning that guides the definition and diagnosis of such
problems; skill in the diagnosis and management of frequently
occurring acute and chronic problems; to understand the patient
as part of a family and community; to understand and use a
comprehensive and continuous approach to care; to understand and
use the concepts of Information Mastery, including Patient
Oriented Evidence that Matters, the Usefulness Equation, and
point of care EBM resources to guide patient care decisions; to
understand and use techniques of evidence based preventive
medicine and health promotion; to understand