Ambulatory Family Medicine Mercy health
Title of Clerkship: Ambulatory Family Medicine
Elective Type: Fourth Year Elective
Department: Family Medicine
Clerkship Site: Mercy Health – St. Luke’s Family Medicine Residency Program
Course Number: FMMD 714
Blocks available: 1
Number of students per block: 1
Faculty: Megan Cranor, DO; John Hanna, MD; Suchitra Nair, MD; Anna Nelson, MD; David Oram, MD; Chris Zona, MD
Elective Description/Requirements: The Department of Family Medicine offers a four-week ambulatory experience. The students will work with Mercy faculty members at one, or more, ambulatory clinical sites
Length of Clerkship: 4 weeks
Educational Course Objectives and Links to EPOs:
- The students will interview and exmine patients with complaints relating to the full spectrum of ambulatory Family Medicine.(EPOs: MK-4, MK-6, PC-1, PC-6)
- Students will demonstrate and discuss how Family Medicine can be adapted to the interests and talents of individual physcians (EPOs: MK2-, MK-3, IPBL-1)
- Students will demonstrate physical diagnosis techniques and therapeutic program planning. (EPOs: PC-1, PC-7, IPC-1)
- Students will demonstrate communication skills to facilitate an ongoing partnernship with patients, their families, other health professionals, and within the community. (EPOs: PC-4, PC-9, PB-1, IPC-1, SBP-1)
Professionalism: UT/COM students will meet or exceed the institutional standards for professionalism
as stated in the current Educational Program Objectives and the current Educational
Course Objectives for the Sponsoring Department.
Instructional Methods:
- Ambulatory care experiences
- Resident program/department conferences
Evaluation methods employed:
- Faculty/resident observation and assessment of clinical skills
Clerkship Director: Rameez Bhatti, MD
Clerkship Coordinator: Lindsey Brillhart
Phone Number: 419.383.5557
Email: Lindsey.Brillhart@utoledo.edu
Special Requirements: None
ECC Approved
January 2024