3rd Year Longitudinal Primary Care Clerkship

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Department	Medicine
Course Number	MED 302
Course Title	3rd Year Longitudinal Primary Care Clerkship
Course Director	Tahira Lodhi, MD; Mia Marcus, MD
Length (Weeks)	Half year (longitudinal)
When Offered	During the clerkship year
Prerequisites	None
Availability Notes	This is a required clerkship for 3rd year students. See syllabus for additional details.
Contact Name	Keyana Askew
Contact Phone	202-677-6277
Contact Fax	202-741-2788
Contact Email	kaskew@mfa.gwu.edu
Other Contacts	Clerkship Director Dr. Lodhi (tlodhi@mfa.gwu.edu); Assistant Clerkship Director Dr. Marcus (mmarcus@mfa.gwu.edu)
Location	Offices throughout the DMV region
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Report	Course coordinator will contact registered students.
Evaluation	Honors/High Pass/Pass/Conditional/Fail. See syllabus for additional details.
Description	The goal of the six-month longitudinal primary care clerkship is to provide students with longitudinal experiences in managing patients employing contemporary themes in curriculum: preventing illness and promoting health, managing chronic illness and clinical relationships over time, finding best practice answers to clinical questions, dealing with clinical uncertainty, providing patient centered care with available resources, working in health care teams, and sharing decision making with patients. See syllabus for additional details.
Additional Notes	Clerkship Learning Objectives: By the end of this course, the student should be able to: Demonstrate the ability to evaluate common primary care health concerns through an appropriate history, examination, differential diagnosis synthesis, and diagnostic and treatment plan development. Demonstrate effective written and verbal presentation skills. Demonstrate effective communication with patients, their families, and members of the health care team. Apply evidence-based medicine principles and practice algorithms relevant to disease evaluation, management, and health promotion in primary care. Interpret diagnostic results in the evaluation of common symptoms and diagnoses in the primary care setting. Demonstrate an understanding of the role of primary care in promoting health equity. Demonstrate an understanding of the continuity of care of patients. Use learner-centered, culturally responsive principles to educate patients in the primary care setting. Demonstrate professionalism in all interactions, duties, and responsibilities. See syllabus for additional details.