Course Description
This 8-week combined ambulatory course provides students with 4-week experiences in medicine and in pediatrics. During one half-day per week, students participate in a longitudinal curriculum that covers topics common to both disciplines. The clerkship curriculum is presented in an integrated fashion across both disciplines, and incorporates many cross-cutting themes, such as evidence-based medicine, health-care finance, tobacco cessation, women’s health, geriatrics, wellness and prevention, and interpersonal communications.
The objectives of the course are that students should become able to:
- assess the well patient in the ambulatory setting.
- evaluate common acute clinical problems in the ambulatory setting.
- participate in the longitudinal care of patients with chronic conditions.
- incorporate cost-effective, age-specific, preventive strategies into routine care.
Students participate in patient care at offices and clinics throughout the region, including hospital-based sites and a variety of community-based locations, in generalist and/or specialist settings.
Educational Methods
- Ambulatory patient-care activities
- Critically appraised topic assignments
- Standardized patient sessions
- Multimedia modules
- Lectures
- Web-based CLIPP cases
- Structured readings
- Learning logs
- Workshops
Evaluation
Evaluation in this course is based on medicine preceptor evaluations (30%), pediatrics preceptor evaluations (30%), written exam (15%), standardized patient OSCE (15%), and professionalism (10%).
Grading: The Clerkship is graded Honors, High Pass, Pass, Low Pass, or Unsatisfactory.
Faculty Note
Clerkship Co-Director Elmer Holzinger, MD, is a recipient of the Chancellor’s Distinguished Teaching Award, the Donald S. Fraley Award for Medical Student Mentoring, and the Clerkship Preceptor of the Year Award. Philip Kaleida, MD, is the recipient of multiple Provost’s Innovation in Education Awards. Melissa McNeil, MD, is a recipient of the Kenneth E. Schuit Master Educator Award. Eric J. Anish, MD is the recipient of the Clerkship Preceptor of the Year Award. In addition, Clerkship Director Michael Elnicki, MD, and Drs. Holzinger, Kaleida, McNeil, Anish, and Phrampus are members of the UPSOM Academy of Master Educators.
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