OCOM 8005 - Family Medicine

Throughout this course, students work to acquire and demonstrate the foundational knowledge and basic skills necessary to practice family medicine. They explore the attitudes and behaviors that enable excellent patient care, consider the principles underlying this field and discuss the value of family medicine as an integral part of any health system.

Credit Hours: 8

Course Outcomes

• Students will be able to assess, evaluate, and execute an initial evidence-informed plan of care for patients with presentations typical of that encountered in a primary care setting.
• Students will be able to apply the principles of health promotion, disease prevention and patient-centered care in an ambulatory primary care setting.
• Students will be able to discuss and demonstrate basic procedural skills, including OMT, that are commonly used in the outpatient primary care setting.
• Students will be able to demonstrate basic proficiency in establishing and maintaining effective communication with patients, their caregivers, and with an interprofessional health care team.
• Students will be able to provide professional care for all patients encountered in the primary care setting.
• Students will be able to reflect on and explore ones own identity as a developing professional.
• Students will be able discuss the principles of family medicine, the role of the family physician within the health system and the opportunities, attractions, and challenges of family medicine as a profession.