FME 30000 - Core Clerkship in Family Medicine (Chattanooga)

Cr Hrs: 9
Session Length: 6 weeks

This is a face to face clinical rotation. This clerkship is a 6-week clinical experience during which students participate in the breadth of family medicine. Students spend 3 weeks in the inpatient setting caring for medical and obstetrical patients and 3 weeks in an office-based practice, either community or residency-based. Students will experience a broad range of clinical presentations and participate in both inpatient and office-based procedures. Students placed with community preceptors might also experience home visits and nursing home care. Every clerk will work at least one week of night float on an inpatient team. Students are responsible for writing H+Ps, progress notes, and discharge summaries while on inpatient, as well as completing several other written assignments, readings, and logging diagnoses and procedures (community preceptors also allow student EMR access). This clerkship is one of several site options for the core clerkship in Family Medicine.

Grade Mode: Standard

Instructional Method: Clinical-Required
Location offered: Chattanooga
Hospital: Erlanger Health System and the UT Family Practice Center in Chattanooga
Prerequisites: Satisfactory completion of 1st two years and Step 1 taken

Term offered: Fall, Spring

Fall - Instructor of Record: Betsy Close - Elizabeth.close@erlanger.org
Spring - Instructor of Record: Betsy Close - Elizabeth.close@erlanger.org
Course Coordinator: Elissa McCoy - elissa.mccoy@erlanger.org - 423-778-2957

Website: http://utcomchatt.org/subpage.php?pageId=798
Prior Authorization: No
Blocks Not Offered: D
Off-cycle timing allowed: No
Deadline for Excused Absence: Thirty days before start of elective/rotation
Deadline for Cancellation: Thirty days before start of elective/rotation
Overnight Call and/or Float: Yes-1 weekend night shift
Time off for interviews: No