Family Medicine Clerkship

• Preceptor’s Final Description of Student Performance 50%
• Performance on Final Written Examination 40%
• Quality of Written Paper (Case Report, Research, or Ethnographic) 10%

Mandatory Requirements

• Mandatory attendance at lectures
• Completion of all Weekly Clinical Activity (Teleform) Reports
• Evidence-Based Medicine (EBM) Project
• Satisfactory completion of OSCA

Honors in the rotation will be awarded to students in the top 20% and will be based on overall scores.

Required Text

“Essentials of Family Medicine (3rd Edition)”, by Philip D. Sloane, M.D., and Lisa Slatt, M.Ed.

The textbook is available in the HSC Bookstore and there is a copy on reserve in the Norris Medical Library.

Requirements and Evaluation Criteria

• Percent of final grade

• Satisfactory evaluation from preceptor* 45%
• Passing score (70%) on final examination* 45%
• Completion of written case-based paper 10%
• Completion of weekly student activity record
• Attendance at lectures (required)
• Satisfactory completion of standardized patient examination

• Preceptor Evaluation

• Preceptors provide individual written evaluations of each student.
  Evaluation Form »

• Final examination

• The final examination given the last day of the rotation will be a multiple choice examination based primarily on the required readings, with additional questions from the weekly seminar series.

• Other activities

• Written case-based paper on a selected common problem in Family Medicine
• Weekly student activity record.
  Failing to satisfy this requirement will result in a subtraction of 5 points from your final grade.
• Standardized Patient Examination and video evaluation
  Failing to satisfy this requirement will result in a subtraction of 5 points from your final grade.

• Requirement Scores

Each component of the requirements for completion of the clerkship are scored on a 100 point scale. Honors in the rotation will be awarded based on numerical total scores from above components as follows:

• Honors* 90%
• Near Honors 80%
• Pass 70%

All requirements are due on the final day of the rotation

*To be eligible for honors, the student must receive honors evaluation on both the preceptor's evaluation and the final examination.

Required reading

Sloane PD, Slatt LM, Curtis P. Essentials Family Medicine. Williams & Wilkins, Baltimore, 1993. No exam items will be taken from the chapters 14 or 33

Additional handouts from the following lectures:

• Alternative Medicine
• Asthma
• Low Back Pain
• Headaches,
• HIV Seminar
• Hypertension
• Prevention
• Smoking Cessation
• Vaginitis,
• Domestic Violence
• Hypercholesterolemia
• Menopause

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