Education
Family Medicine Clerkship BCC 7175
Contact Information
Suzanne Harrison, M.D.
Education Director
Phone: (850) 645-6438
Fax: (850) 645-2859
FAMILY MEDICINE CLERKSHIP
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COURSE DESCRIPTION
The Family Medicine Clerkship is a six-week, community-based, clerkship. Students spend at least 8 patient care sessions each week providing clinical care to patients under the direct supervision of a practicing family physician. These community-based family physicians are called "clerkship faculty" and are members of the College of Medicine's clinical faculty.
The educational goals of the Family Medicine Clerkship include:
- To familiarize each student with the principles and content that define the discipline of family medicine;
- To provide opportunities for each student to apply these principles and content knowledge in a supervised family practice clinical experience; and,
- To expose each student to an experienced and competent family physician role model.
The educational content of the Family Medicine Clerkship emphasizes the evaluation and treatment of ambulatory patients with common clinical problems/conditions. Inclusion of other educational content enriches the Clerkship experience, but the Clerkship's core content must focus on improving the student's ability to evaluate, recognize and manage these common clinical problems/conditions in ambulatory patients.
In addition to the clinical experience, students document and analyze their experience via the CDCS system, complete two (2) required clerkship projects and employ self-directed and faculty-directed learning activities to achieve clerkship objectives.
FACULTY ADMINISTRATORS
Suzanne Harrison, M.D., Education Director, Main campus
Christopher Dunlap, M.D., Clerkship Director, Tallahassee campus
Douglas Meuser, M.D., Clerkship Director, Orlando campus
Dennis Mayeaux, M.D. , Clerkship Director, Pensacola campus
Nicole Bentze, D.O., Clerkship Director, Sarasota campus
Nancy Baker, M.D., Clerkship Director, Ft. Pierce campus
George Bernardo, M.D., Clerkship Director, Daytona campus
plus, a host of clerkship faculty at each regional campus and at Rural Track sites in Marianna and Immokalee.
