Electives by Department
Medical Student Fourth Year Electives - Family Medicine
FME2-3010/F JI ANY - FAMILY PRACTICE PRECEPTORSHIP – KNOX
Course Coordinator: M. David Stockton, M.D., M.P.H.
Location: University of Tennessee Medical Center
Max. Class Size: 2 students
Medical students at the M4 level may negotiate their learning activities with the course coordinator, as MANY options are available. Here is just one choice (traditional):
University Family Practice (UFP), adjacent to the University of Tennessee Medical Center in Knoxville, is a 30 year old family medicine practice staffed by residents and faculty. Students provide patient care for a patient population that is diverse and challenging in their health care needs under the direct supervision of family medicine residents and faculty. Various procedures are performed in the office including colposcopy, LEEP, OB ultrasound, minor surgery, “no-scapel” vasectomy, and others. Students may assist on procedures under direct faculty supervision. Students are also integrated into the UFP Inpatient Team, admitting and managing University of Tennessee Medical Center inpatients. One to two weeks can also be spent working with a board-certified family practitioner in the community. This very popular experience for the student can easily be in a rural or urban practice site. Patient care activities with family physicians at Interfaith Health Clinic or the Free Clinic and the Brakebill Nursing Home round out the learning experience. The student’s clinical interests are definitely integrated into the curriculum of their elective. Nearly any rotation site with a board certified family physician in our area will be considered.
FME2-4003/F AMBULATORY PEDIATRICS – KNOX
Course Coordinator:Larry Rodgers, M.D., F.A.A.P.
Location:Pediatric Consultants of East Tennessee, North 100 Tech Center Drive; Knoxville, TN
Max Class Size: 1 student
The students are expected to evaluate both sick and well infants, children and adolescents consisting of obtaining a history and performing a physical examination as well as perform accepted standard of care pediatric office procedures with direct supervision.
Direct one-on-one supervision will be by faculty course coordinator, rotating family practice residents assigned to this office and by pediatric board certified partners in this office. There will be weekly feedback to the student and an exit interview will be done.
At the final week of this elective, the medical student will be responsible for presenting a one-half to one-hour mini-seminar presentation on a general pediatrics topic (from a list of topics provided by the Course Coordinator) to the course coordinator and practice partners and family practice resident as a part of the family practice ambulatory educational program for this office. Also, the student is expected to attend all educational presentations by family practice residents rotating at this office.
No call is required during this elective
Following this course, students will be able to:
- Describe the experience of a busy exclusive urban private pediatric practice with an academic affiliation
- Describe the care of the child with special needs using the concept of a “medical home” in the private pediatric practice setting.
- Describe the private pediatric practice care of children with pervasive developmental disorders, ADD, ADHD, psychosocial disorders, Trisomy 21, and the developing premature infant
- Describe the continuity of ambulatory private pediatric practice with patients who need hospitalization
The University of Tennessee Graduate School of Medicine
Office of Student Affairs
1924 Alcoa Highway, U94
Knoxville, TN 37920
Phone: (865) -305-9618 or
(800)-596-7249
students@utmck.edu