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The UIC Family Medicine Clerkship
was established in 1992 as a 4-week required third
year clerkship and then was expanded to the current
6 weeks in 1998. The clerkship was awarded the first
ever "Outstanding Clerkship Award" at the
University of Illinois College of Medicine in 1998.
The Clerkship is also funded with a competitive grant
award from the Health Resources and Services Administration
to develop ways to graduate Culturally Competent Physicians.
This clerkship emphasizes training
in ambulatory sites and has made an effort to place
students in private practitioners' offices, community
health centers, and in quality residency programs.
We have locations throughout the State of Illinois,
but they are predominately located in the metropolitan
Chicago area.
The goals of the clerkship are to
increase students' ability to
- Provide comprehensive
patient care with a family medicine perspective
(which includes exploring family and cultural
factors which may impact their patients).
- Diagnose and manage common
acute and chronic ambulatory illnesses in a well
reasoned manner, and
- Recognize and address personal
knowledge, skill, and/or reasoning gaps that may
arise during their patient encounters.
The academic component of the clerkship is composed of various required portions. Currently, the students have a personal schedule reflecting courses they choose, called selectives. Other required courses are also offered in conjunction with the selectives. These courses emphasize common problems in clinical settings that challenge and provide the students with the ability to reason through these common, yet unique clinical cases. The selectives provide students to study areas of Family Medicine that they are especially interested in. The bulk of the training is provided by highly motivated, dedicated and volunteer family physicians who precept students during their clinical experience.
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