OCOM 8202 - Elective - Continuity in Primary Care:Longitudinal Integrated Clerkship

This course is a one-year rotation, during the third year of medical school, situated within a rural or urban underserved family medicine practice and providing exposure to the continuity of primary care across the continuum of the inpatient and outpatient settings. It exposes the student to the breadth of family practice including medical care of all ages, as well as enhances the student’s ability to provide continuity in care. This rotation also exposes the student to the collaboration of health care entities in the community, practice, management, practice quality improvement, and possibly research. It also provides exposure to the direct supervisory role of the physician CNP/PA/MA relationships. Overall, the goal of this rotation is to allow the student to develop rural/urban primary health care training by developing a continuity practice of their own under the direction of their supervisory site director. With this knowledge and experience, a better understanding of the scope of rural/urban underserved primary health care is achieved.

Credit Hours: 2

Course Outcomes

The student will be able to care for patients along with the site preceptor, both outpatient and inpatient, as indicated, following inpatients into the outpatient setting
The student will be able to adapt and provide alternative care options based on resource availability
The student will be able to provide documentation of the development of a panel of patients which have been followed over the clerkship showing required demographics and data
The student will be able to show improvement in their history taking, note production, and development of their differential diagnosis abilities
The student will be able to show improved skills using EHR, documentation of encounters and developing coding practice with each encounter
The student will be able to demonstrate that they can be adaptable in care delivery under the restrictions placed by insurance coverage and available resources
The student will be able to demonstrate their understanding of the practice’s business model