Third Year Clerkships
Family Medicine
Clerkship Director: M. David Stockton, MD, MPH dstockto@utmck.edu
Associate Director: Jon Parham, DO, MPH jparham@utmck.edu
Student Affairs: Missy Maples (865) 305-9618, Email: mmaples@utmck.edu
Department of Family Medicine contact: Victoria Coy (865) 305-9352 or vcoy@utmck.edu
Website: http://gsm.utmck.edu/fammed
Third year medical students at UT Knoxville are integrated into a teaching team of 24 resident physicians and over 47 community and academic faculty (MDs, DOs, PhDs, MPHs, and RDs) in the Department of Family Medicine. Students care for patients while fully-supported by a community-based family physician, attend case discussion groups, give patient presentations, co-manage patients with residents and faculty on the Family Medicine Inpatient Service, and see patients at a variety of community sites. Faculty-led workshops and small group talks assist students in learning to advance their interpretation skills for ECG's and chest x-rays, manage common complaints and diseases of adults and children, and decide on appropriate cancer screening strategies among other skill building exercises. Supervised acute care nursing home visits and patient care in a free Clinic for the working uninsured, offer learning opportunities with special outpatient populations. Two weeks of inpatient care at UT Medical Center includes several call nights with a supervising family medicine resident. Students are introduced to outpatient (ex. Exercise treadmills, colposcopy and LEEP, and no-scalpel vasectomies) and hospital based procedures. A small group presentation regarding a clinical question from their outpatient work further orients students to Evidence-based Medicine (EBM) and assists them in developing presentation skills.
Since family physicians address the diverse health needs of both individuals and families, the learning experience with clinical preceptors provides the optimal opportunity to consolidate and integrate information from the biological, clinical, and behavioral sciences learned in the M1 and M2 years. The majority of student's time (approximately 6 weeks) will be spent exploring the professional life of their community family physician preceptor, primarily through supervised patient care.
For more information about the Knoxville Family Medicine clerkship, please contact David Stockton, MD, Predoctoral Director, dstockto@utmck.edu; Phone: (865) 305-9352; Fax: (865) 305-6532. For information about our M4 rotation opportunities and our residency program, please visit http://gsm.utmck.edu/fammed.
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