Family Medicine Clerkship
Welcome to the Family Medicine Clerkship! We are excited to have you join us.
This four-week rotation covers the basic principles of Family Medicine to include caring for individuals in a community setting and understanding the epidemiology of the most common health issues affecting those communities.
At the beginning of the year, all students submit an interest survey. The clerkship committee uses responses in assigning students to clerkship sites. Following a thorough clerkship orientation, students spend the majority of their time engaged with their practice sites. Through their required clinical experiences and clerkship assignments, students achieve the learning objectives pertaining to the most common patient complaints and utilize preceptor feedback and the VCU School of Medicine Learning Management Systems, (LMS) to monitor progress.
Students are assessed based on a final preceptor evaluation, an OSCE, and written exam. There is a group debriefing at the end of the rotation. The intent of this session is to highlight the variety within the specialty of Family Medicine, while also underscoring the common attributes that can be found regardless of where or with whom students were placed.
Students also have the option to create a self-directed, evidence-based medicine project based on a clinical question that has arisen during their clerkship experience and share it with their clinical practice.
Welcome
Clerkship Director: Denee Moore, M.D.
Welcome from the Clerkship Director
Family Medicine Clerkship
Resources
- Perform a focused, efficient, and accurate history and physical examination of patients pertinent to their acute or chronic medical conditions.
- Identify immediate life threatening or serious conditions that require critical care and outline an initial course of management.
- Describe the indications, risks, limitations, complications, and interpretation of commonly used diagnostic tests.
- Perform routine procedures competently, identifying indications and risks, interpreting the results of these procedures if needed.
- Construct appropriate assessments, differential diagnoses, and treatment plans for patients, including indicated health maintenance screening tests.
- Gather information from the patient, their family, healthcare team members, and the medical record to facilitate the ongoing care of patients.
- Demonstrate the principles of the biopsychosocial model of family medicine care with an emphasis on cultural awareness, contextual care, and coordination and continuity of care.
- Develop evidence-based plans of care for the treatment of disease and promotion of health.
- Describe the psychosocial and cultural factors which influence a patient’s health status, risk of disease, adherence, and response to therapies.
- Engage in interprofessional collaboration in the care of patients.
- Employ compassionate communication with patients and their family members, creating an inclusive, respectful environment to promote shared decision making, patient wellness and disease prevention.
- Identify institutional, structure, and personal biases toward patients and families that can impact patient care.
- Develop one's own professional identity and promote the professional growth of others by soliciting learning opportunities and engaging in bidirectional feedback.
Please also review the institutional learning objectives.
Contacts
Family Medicine Clerkship
Family Medicine Clerkship Director
Denee Moore, M.D.
VCU Health/VCU School of Medicine
West Hospital, Fourteenth Floor, North Wing, Room 116
Phone: (804) 628-9932
Email: denee.moore@vcuhealth.org
Family Medicine Clerkship Coordinator
Briana Lowery
VCU Health/VCU School of Medicine
West Hospital, Fourteenth Floor, North Wing, Room 116
Phone: (804) 827-3555
Fax: (804) 828-5856
Email: briana.lowery@vcuhealth.org