Medical Student Rotations
Third Year Students:
M-3 Ambulatory Medicine Clerkship – DFCM
24 students/year (2 students per month, 12 months per year)
Course goals and objectives
- Strengthen interpersonal/communication skills with patients
- Strengthen H&P skills and the need for focused H&P’s for common problems
- Develop skills in generalized problem solving
- Become familiar with common problems in primary care
- Understand the scope of family practice
- Appreciate continuity of care
Required Activities:
- Team Based Learning sessions given by the Department of Family and Community Medicine, Medical College of Wisconsin (on Tuesdays)
- Pathway activities on Thursday afternoons
- Clinic Sessions at Waukesha Family Practice Clinic
- OB Call Day
- Morning Report (Tuesdays and Thursdays)
- Review a complete exam with primary faculty or resident.
Optional Activities:
- Nursing Home Visits
- Teaching Service Rounds
- Newborn Rounds
- Journal Club
- M&M Conference
- Ortho Lecture
- HROB Conference
Fourth Year Students Elective:
Family Medicine: An Inpatient/Outpatient Experience
Number of students: average of 3 per year.
Students spend 3-4 afternoons/week in clinic seeing patients; the remainder of the time is spent with teaching service at WMH. Optional activities: nursing home visits, practice management activities, attend educational conferences.
Learning Activities:
- Participate as sub-intern in the daily inpatient teaching service rounds at WMH.
- Attend semi-weekly teaching service conferences and present patients.
- Independently evaluate patients and formulate initial assessment and treatment plan under the guidance of faculty preceptors and residents.
Evaluation Criteria:
- History and physical exam skills
- Understanding of the role of psychosocial factors in illness and patient compliance
- Understanding of the role and tools of the effective family physician
- Ability to formulate an appropriate patient assessment and effective treatment plan.
Fourth Year Students Elective:
Apprenticeship with a Master Physician
Number of students per year – 3 this year.
This elective is offered by MCW only 3 times per year. Students select the MCW faculty member they would like to work with.
Time at WFPC: Approximately 20 clinic sessions for one month. The students are scheduled with their faculty member whenever possible when he/she is in clinic during that month, plus other optional activities (TS, OB, educational conferences).
Goals:
- Independently take patient history and perform physical exam.
- Master principles of effective and efficient interviewing.
- Practice effective physical diagnosis maneuvers for common physical findings.
- Construct prioritized differential diagnoses and appropriate management plans.
- Display appropriate communications skills, including respect/empathy for patients and clinical staff, and understanding of cross-cultural issues.
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