FME 30000 - Core Clerkship in Family Medicine (Knoxville)

Cr Hrs: 9
Session Length: 6 weeks

PD

This is a face to face clinical rotation receiving 9 credit hours. This clerkship is a 6-week clinical experience during which students participate in the breadth of family medicine. Students spend 2 weeks in the inpatient setting caring for medical and obstetrical patients and 4 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 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. This clerkship is one of several site options for the core clerkship in Family Medicine.

Grade Mode: Standard or Honors/High Pass/Pass/Fail

Instructional Method: Clinical-Required

Location Offered: Knoxville
Hospital: University of Tennessee Medical Center-Knoxville and University Family Physicians
Prerequisites: Satisfactory completion of 1st two years and Step 1 taken
Term Offered: Fall, Spring

Fall - Instructor of Record: Bill Dabbs - wdabbs@utmck.edu

Spring - Instructor of Record: Bill Dabbs - wdabbs@utmck.edu

Course Coordinator: Jennifer Parris-Horner - jparris@utmck.edu

Website: http://gsm.utmck.edu/students/third_fammed.cfm
Prior Authorization: No
Blocks Not Offered: None
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 - 2 late weekday calls
Time Off for Interviews: No