Core Objectives
- Junior medical students will describe the epidemiology, treatment, and prevention of illnesses usually encountered in a family medicine practice.
- Junior medical students will demonstrate information management by using electronic and other methods to access information necessary for managing clinical problems.
- Junior medical students will accept faculty supervised responsibility for individual patient management through advanced elicitation of history, communication, physical examination, and the use of critical thinking skills.
- Junior medical students will demonstrate behaviors commensurate with members of the medical profession.
- Junior medical students will describe the role of Family Medicine as it relates to clinical medicine.
- Junior medical students will demonstrate sensitivity and responsiveness to culture, age, gender, sexual orientation, and disabilities of patients, patients’ families, faculty, residents, other health professionals, and peers.
- Junior medical students will differentiate models of practice between academic health centers and rural clinics.
- Junior medical students will describe the basic principles and components of health care quality improvement.
- Junior medical students will describe the family physician's role in the physician’s community.
- Junior medical students will describe methods for monitoring business management in a family physician’s office.
- Junior medical students will analyze costs and funding sources associated with health care.
- Junior medical students will demonstrate effective oral and written communications with patients and their families, colleagues and others with whom patients must exchange information.
- Junior medical students will demonstrate the ability to adapt communications to a variety of professional settings and roles.