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For details about Family Medicine elective clerkships in each community, see Family Medicine Electives Notebook (pdf) (Word).
PreApproved Sites in Assigned Communities
001 - Flint
002 - Grand Rapids
- Volunteer Offices/residency
003- Kalamazoo
- Volunteer Offices/residency
004 - Lansing
- Volunteer Offices/residency
005 - Saginaw
- a. Midland
- b. Volunteer Offices/residency
006 - Upper Peninsula
- Volunteer Offices/residency
010 - Other
- (Prior approval required if outside assigned community)
FMP 610 Family Medicine Elective – Outpatient
The Family Medicine elective clerkship trains the student in the broad range of patient problems cared for in Family Medicine, with particular emphasis on patient interviewing, clinical procedures, diagnosis, and the use of community resources. The clerkship often helps students to clarify their career goals concerning Family Medicine.
The Family Medicine elective clerkship may be taken as a four or an eight week block experience.
Prerequisites
Completion of FMP 608, Family Medicine Clerkship and approval of the clerkship coordinator in the Department of Family Medicine. It is recommended that students complete most or all of their required clerkships before taking this elective.
Intended Audience
Fourth year students in the College of Human Medicine.
Instructional Methods
Under the supervision of the precepting physician, the student participates in the care of patients in office and hospital settings.
Methods of Evaluation
Pass/Fail. The precepting physician to whom the student was assigned completes the standard Clinical Performance Evaluation form. A summary of the student's performance is sent to the student in a form of a letter written by the Clerkship Coordinator in the Department of Family Medicine. A copy of the letter is sent to the community administrator, and to the student's file.
Expectations
The student is expected to attend clinical sessions and educational activities as scheduled by the precepting physician.
When Offered
Fall, Spring and Summer semesters, depending on the availability of faculty at the instructional site.
Location
Community campuses of the College of Human Medicine, as well as a variety of arranged experiences throughout the U.S. The sites in the same community campus to which the student is assigned have pre-approval. All other sites must be approved by the clerkship coordinator in the Department of Family Medicine at MSU on the Inter-Community/Off Campus Clerkship Request Form.
Instructors
Physician preceptors are arranged at the instructional sites.
Credits
Six credits are awarded for the completion of the course as a four week elective, and twelve credits for the eight week option.
FMP 610 Family Medicine Elective – Outpatient
Flint – Genesys Sec 001a
Hospital/Residency:
- Genesys Regional Medical Center
One Genesys Parkway
Grand Blanc, MI 48439
- (810) 606-5981 or (800) 233-2863
http://genesysfp.org/
Contact Person:
- Kenneth E. Yokosawa, M.D., A.B.F.P.
Genesys Regional Medical Center
One Genesys Parkway
Grand Blanc, MI 48439
- (810) 505-5981 or (800) 233-2863
http://genesysfp.org/
Community Campus:
- Flint Area Medical Education (FAME)
MSU-FAME
One Hurley Plaza
Flint, MI 48503-5902
- (810) 232-7000
http://www2.msufame.msu.edu
Dates Offered:
When and Where to Report:
- Genesys Regional Medical Center - Health Park
Medical Education Office
Department of Undergraduate Education
One Genesys Parkway
Grand Blanc, MI 48439
Schedule:
- Hours: As Arranged
- Rounds: As Arranged
- On-Call: As Arranged
- Clinic: As Arranged
- Length of clerkship: 4 to 8 weeks
Goals and Objectives:
- As dictated based on specific clinical experience design
Duties and Responsibilities of Advanced Clerk:
- Based on clerkship design
Duties and Responsibilities of Attending:
- Based on clerkship design
Readings:
- Based on clerkship design
Evaluation:
- Based on goals and objectives of clerkship
FMP 610 Family Medicine Elective – Outpatient
Flint – McLaren Sec 001b / 001c
The McLaren Regional Medical Center Family Practice Residency Program offers an advanced Family Practice Elective to all interested fourth year medical students from accredited medical schools. This Elective is structured as an in-depth Family Practice experience with an emphasis on in-office and hospital procedures. Supervision will be provided by a senior resident and by teaching faculty. It offers the senior student interested in a career in Family Practice an excellent hands-on experience in a community-based university affiliated medical center.
Senior students must have successfully completed a clerkship in Family Practice and be a student in good standing at their respective school. Fourth-year students not previously completing a clerkship in Family Practice who are interested in the advanced procedures, must first obtain permission from the dean of the respective medical school and the director of the Family Practice Residency Program.
The in-hospital experience occurs at the McLaren Regional Medical Center. The senior student will participate in morning teaching sessions and hospital rounds supervised by the senior resident and Family Practice faculty.
Hospital activities will include assisting faculty and/or resident physicians in performing minor surgical procedures, common hospital procedures, and deliveries at the McLaren New Life Center.
The office experiences will be held at the McLaren Family Practice Center, and students will have an opportunity to perform procedures with direct supervision of the Family Practice Faculty. Procedures commonly performed include: flexible sigmoidoscopy, cryotherapy of the common skin lesions, biopsy, and/or removal of common skin lesions, endometrial biopsy, removal of in-grown toenail, and colposocpy. The weekly schedule will vary depending upon scheduled procedures. However, the student is expected to spend a minimum of three half-days per week in the Family Practice Center.
In addition, the students will have one-on-one teaching seminars with the Family Practice faculty. These hands-on seminars will include advanced suturing techniques, splinting and casting techniques, sigmoidoscopy mannequin practice, and colposcopy mannequin practice.
Goals and Objectives
By the end of the elective rotation, the senior student will be able to:
- Perform, with supervision, common office and hospital procedures
- Monitor patients in active labor and perform vaginal delivery, with supervision. This includes exhibiting knowledge of the stages of labor, common obstetrical emergencies, and post-partum complication.
Limited housing is available for students participating in advanced Family Practice elective. Food in the McLaren Medical Center cafeteria is free to all medical students.
Free parking, access to library and research material is also available.
Students must provide their own short white lab coat and stethoscope. All other medical instruments are available at the Family Practice Center and hospital. Students will also be required to pass a written end-of-clerkship examination covering common procedural topics.
Contact person
For more information, please contact Stephanie LeSchuk, Program Administrator for the McLaren Family Practice Program at (810) 733-9654.
FMP 610 Family Medicine Elective – Outpatient
Grand Rapids Sec 002
Objectives:
- The student will develop an appreciation for family medicine as a specialty and become aware of the goal of continuous and comprehensive care as it relates to Family Medicine.
- The student will develop skill in the assessment of problems presented by ambulatory patients.
- The student will observe all facets of Family Medicine, stressing the inter-relationship of disease and prevention of disease within the family unit.
Description:
This elective will introduce the student to the concepts of Family Medicine, including the comprehensive family health care provided in the outpatient setting. A major emphasis will be placed on practical, clinical experience through direct patient care.
The student will be paired with one primary preceptor and schedule a number of secondary options. Possible settings include: the Family Medicine residents’ office, a neighborhood clinic for the underserved homeless, a neighborhood clinic for Hispanic residents, private community family physicians. Students are invited to participate in Tuesday morning didactic learning with residents (8-12Noon).
Evaluation:
Preceptor(s) will be asked to submit a written evaluation at the conclusion of the clerkship. Faculty are encouraged to provide ongoing feedback throughout the elective rotations.
Hospital/Residency:
- Grand Rapids Family Medicine Residency
Grand Rapids Medical Education & Research Center for Health Professions
1000 Monroe, N.W.
Grand Rapids, MI 49503
Contact Person:
- Alicia Crispin
- Grand Rapids Family Medicine Residency
Grand Rapids Medical Education and Research Center
for Health Professions
300 Lafayette, S.E. #3400
Grand Rapids, MI 49503
- Phone: 1-800-276-1807 or e-mail crispina@trinity-health.com
Dates Offered:
- One month timeframe, any month during the year
When and Where to Report:
- Arranged with Alicia Crispin as above address
Schedule:
- Hours: 8:30 am to 5:00 pm
- Rounds: Not required
- On-Call: Not required
- Clinic: Monday - Friday, hours listed above
- Length of clerkship: 4 weeks
Duties and Responsibilities of Clerk and Attending:
- Will be discussed during orientation
Living Arrangements:
- Free Room and Board will be Provided
Evaluation:
- Will be provided by the attending
FMP 610 Family Medicine– Outpatient
Saginaw Sec 005
Outpatient Family Medicine Experience
Instructors: Dr. Jackson and faculty
Responsible agent: Dr. Jackson/Joyce Pruitt 989-583-7917
Periods Offered: Calendar months throughout the year
Students accepted: Fourth year students
Distribution of student’s time:
- 40% seeing patients in Family Medicine Center
- 20% in Procedures Clinics of VA Dermatology clinic
- 20% in Travel Medicine, Laboratory Medicine, AGES Clinic, or St. Francis’ Nursing Home
- 20% in Department’s didactic conferences
Average no. of patients see each week: 55
Where to report the first day of the clerkship:
- Department of Family Medicine (Joyce Pruitt’s office by 9:00 am)
Clerkship description:
This rotation is designed to provide an outpatient experience for medical students in the breadth of problems encountered in Family Medicine. Students will attend to patients in the Family Medicine Center. Students will also rotate through the Department’s Clinics in Procedures, Dermatology, Travel Medicine, and Ambulatory Geriatrics. Students will visit the St. Francis Nursing Home during the month, performing geriatric patient care. Students will have the opportunity to work closely with current faculty and residents in managing patients.
FMP 610 Family Medicine– Outpatient
Saginaw Sec 005
Family Medicine Outpatient Procedures Elective
Instructors: Dr. Jackson and faculty
Responsible agent: Dr. Jackson/Joyce Pruitt 989-583-7917
Periods Offered: Calendar months throughout the year
Students accepted: Fourth year students
Distribution of student’s time:
- 50% in outpatient Procedures Clinic
- 10% in VA Dermatology Clinic
- 20% in Travel Medicine/Laboratory Medicine Clinic
- 20% in Didactic lectures with Family Medicine residents
Average no. of patients see each week: 75
Where to report the first day of the clerkship:
- Department of Family Medicine (Joyce Pruitt’s office by 9:00 am)
Clerkship description:
The student will have the opportunity to work directly with a faculty member and resident in the very popular Procedures Clinic. Procedures include skin biopsies, skin flaps and plasties, LEEP and Colposcopy, joint injections, and nasolaryngoscopy and EGD. Students also will participate in the weekly Dermatology Clinics at the VA Hospital, and work in the Department’s Travel Medicine Clinic. Residents will attend the daily didactic lectures including the weekly Procedures Lecture on Thursdays. Self study is performed by reviewing the Department’s Procedures Quizzes, and students have access to the procedures training room.
FMP 610 Family Medicine– Outpatient
Midland Sec 005a
Family medicine, with special emphasis in:
- OB
- Sports medicine
- Geriatrics (nursing home/home health/hospice)
- Procedures
- Women’s health
- Family medicine service (adult inpatient medicine)
- Family Practice Center (outpatient)
- Practice management
- Medical ethics
- Patient education
- Critical care
The student will be able to create a personalized learning experience in family medicine. Pre-rotation planning with a full-time family medicine faculty member will ensure that goals and objectives are accomplished. A month-long rotation can be created from a long list of experiential learning opportunities. The student can choose to: spend time in the Family Practice Center with full-time family medicine faculty mentors; experience a first, second, or third year resident’s typical day; become the house officer and manage the ICU and CCU; spend a shift in the emergency department or on labor and delivery with a resident; choose a faculty mentor with a Certificate of Added Qualifications in geriatrics or sports medicine; spend time in the procedures suite with faculty and residents, learning OB ultrasound, flexible sigmoidoscopy, vasectomy, colposcopy, and dermatologic procedures; spend time on the family medicine service, an inpatient adult medicine service run by the faculty, first, and third year residents; make nursing home rounds, home visits, or assist in hospice care. The student can emphasize what is most important by creating his/her own experience. The options are limitless.
Contact:
- Luella Rosencrants , Coordinator
Midland Family Practice Residency Program
4005 Orchard Drive
Midland, Michigan 48670
- (989) 839-3320 or toll free at 877-509-1794
- luella.rosencrants@midmichigan.org
Website: http://www.midmichigan.org/residency/
FMP 610 Family Medicine Elective – Outpatient
Upper Peninsula Sec 006
Location: Marquette, Michigan
Coordinator: Dr. William Short
Objectives:
1. To focus on and clarify for the student the realities and advantages of community-based family medicine.
2. To develop an esprit de corps among students interested in family medicine.
3. To provide an opportunity for students to work in an educationally sound community based primary care setting.
4. To improve the student’s ability to perform and document a history and physical examination, obtain laboratory evaluations, formulate an appropriate differential diagnosis, develop a provisional diagnosis, and formulate effective management, which includes further diagnostic evaluation, treatment and rehabilitation programs.
5. To improve the student’s ability to monitor the course of illness and appropriately revise the treatment and rehabilitation planned.
6. To enhance the student’s understanding of psychological, social and economic principles involved in illness and in the delivery of health care and his/her ability to respond appropriately to patients’ needs related to these principles.
7. To enhance the student’s understanding of the role of both non-physician health care workers and other physicians in the delivery of health care.
8. To reduce the student’s personally perceived educational (clinical and non-clinical) deficits.
Methods:
This fourth year elective will acquaint the student with family medicine in an Upper Peninsula community. The student will be encouraged to explore the health services, both within the hospital and in the community. This is an elective for students who are concerned with improving community-based health care and with learning how to define their primary care roles and responsibilities.
Marquette General Hospital is a community-based regional medical center, with both primary and secondary care facilities, and serves the needs of a large rural population. Our Family Medicine Residency Program will provide a unique opportunity for each student to develop an understanding of the patient’s total health care needs and experience the satisfaction that can be gained from helping people who need care.
Each student’s individual interest will be developed and pursued and the student will be treated with professional dignity and given responsibility commensurate with increasing skills. The student will become aware of how challenging practice is and also how exciting and rewarding an experience it can be.
The curriculum is divided into three areas: in-hospital training, ambulatory-site training, and community-medicine training.
The curriculum defines the overall objectives, includes core content, guidelines for expected educational fulfillment regarding this elective, and suggests student and course evaluation tools, bibliography, audio-visual aides, methods of instruction, specific clinical learning experiences, and schedules for the basic program. The student will be evaluated both as to content knowledge and the utilization of clinical skills.
In the hospital, the student will be assigned to a busy family medicine service where he/she will work up and follow patients. The student will take a thorough history and perform a complete physical examination at the time of admission of patients to the service. The student writes an admission note, formulates a diagnostic and therapeutic plan, and writes orders. The family medicine resident assigned to the service and the private staff physician are then notified and conferred with regarding the diagnosis and therapy, so that the initial orders and subsequent care of the patient represents a joint effort between the physician and student. These steps in patient care are reviewed and discussed with the family medicine residents and the attending physician on daily rounds. Progress notes are made by the student and the Problem Oriented Medical Record is utilized. All activities involving the student are supervised. The student spends four mornings per week involved in patient work-ups and rounds.
The student will be assigned to the Family Care Doctors, where the family medicine residents see their private patients. He/she will spend three half-days per week in the Family Medicine Center. During each of these sessions, the student will share in the office experiences of the resident physicians. He/she will see patients and present the case to the preceptor. The patient will then be seen by the preceptor and student together. A diagnostic and therapeutic plan is then devised.
The student will also participate in the family medicine resident conferences, which are held daily. Other activities the student will be involved will include:
- Morning report each day.
- Family Medicine teaching rounds.
- Family Medicine section meeting.
- Other activities as assigned by the coordinator of the rotation.
The student will also spend one morning per week in a community agency. For example, a geriatric nursing home experience, in which the student will learn the basic concepts of geriatric medicine, etc.
With the experience, the student will have the opportunity to observe family medicine as it is practiced in a rural community hospital, as well as observe the role of the family physician and the family medicine resident.
Recommended Reading Material: Journal of Family Practice
Length: 1 month
Days/Week: 5
Hours/Week: 60
Nights Call/Month: 4-8
Evaluation: Oral and written
Maximum Number of Students: 1 |
