RPAP - Primary Care Introduction Clerkship

Catalog Description: This portion of the overall LIC curriculum occurs during the first 3 months of RPAP and is integrated with the other core disciplines encompassed within the LIC.

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Direct patient care: Yes

Consent Requirement: Arranged

Course Objectives: By the end of this rotation, students will be able to do the following:

• Provide culturally sensitive comprehensive care (including preventive, acute, chronic & end of life care) in the context of the patient’s family & the community
• Perform basic procedural skills essential to primary care clinicians
• Demonstrate understanding of the role of Family Medicine within a health care team
• Work effectively with local health care team members to enhance individual & community health
• Develop communication skills & sensitivity to the psychosocial, sexual & family components of medical problems
• Practice evidence-based medicine in the context of primary care
• Understand & apply the principles of preventive care
• Apply principles of quality improvement in practice improvement activities
• Identify factors that contribute to and perpetuate health disparities
• Develop the habit of reflective practice necessary for success as a life-long independent learner
• Experience a rural lifestyle & gain personal confidence & competence in assuming the role of a rural physician
• Understand fundamental aspects of rural health care including practical issues that impact care delivery, rural health care systems, and health problems specific to a rural population

Graded Components:

• Completion of the Evidence Based Medicine project
• Completion of online educational modules on Preventative Care, Rural & Underserved Medicine, & completion of MedU online virtual patient cases
• Communication Session 1 (CS1) which entails a 1:1 visit with RPAP academic faculty who videotapes a History & Physical performed by the RPAP student, as well as observe students as they perform patient encounters & deliver case presentations to preceptors

Grading Scale: P/N