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Specific Suggestions for Use of Family Medicine Clerkship Resources

The FMCR Family Medicine Clerkship resource seeks to be a repository for the best resources in clinical education of medical students in family medicine.  

Family medicine educators can utilize these resources, for example, to develop new clerkships, revise existing clerkships in response to local changes in curriculum, justify increases in clerkship time or create tighter linkages with residency education.    

Of particular note is a set of broadly defined objectives for the family medicine clerkship which are framed within the six ACGME competencies for residency education and within three themes of the family medicine clerkship (Acute and Chronic Illness, Prevention and Wellness, and Community and Population Medicine).   This document can be accessed at

http://fammed.musc.edu/fmc/data/ACGME_Themes.htm

Clerkship directors may wish to compare and contrast their own clerkship goals and objectives for student learning with this to assess how their clerkships are addressing the ACGME competencies for residency training.

Two other important family medicine clerkship pieces have been informed by the findings of the Future of Family Medicine project.   Specifically, descriptions of the family medicine principles http://fammed.musc.edu/fmc/data/FMPrinciples.htm and the family medicine clerkship setting

http://fammed.musc.edu/fmc/data/Setting.htm

as informed by the FFM can be accessed at the family medicine clerkship page.

A "How To Use FM Clerkship Resources" Slide Presentation

A slide presentation on how a clerkship director might use the FM Clerkship resources can be accessed at the site (under General Resources) at:

http://fammed.musc.edu/fmc/data/howto/clerkship.htm

Issues covered within this presentation range from "I want to improve my clerkship" to "I want to revamp the entire curriculum" to "I want to augment and rejuvenate" the family medicine clerkship.   Suggestions for using the FM clerkship resources to build from the top down or from the bottom up are included.   Additionally, other suggestions for how one can assess where the gaps are and address those are provided. An excellent example provided is with addressing a gap concerning how Practice-based Learning and Improvement is taught within the family medicine clerkship.   Within this slide presentation is included how the goals and objectives for PBLI from the cancer screening, hypertension and headache topic resources can be combined to better teach PBLI through these commonly addressed clinical topics within family medicine clerkships.

 

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This page last updated October 21, 2004