Third-Year Clerkships - Family Medicine
 Clerkship Director: Jon Parham, DO, MPH jparham@utk.edu
Student Affairs: Missy Maples (865) 305-9618, Email: mmaples@mc.utmck.edu
Department of Family Medicine contact: Vickki Coy (865) 305-9352 or vcoy@mc.utmck.edu
Website: http://gsm.utmck.edu/family_medicine/main.htm
Third year medical students at UT Knoxville are integrated into a team of physician learners and teachers with about 30 residents and fellows in family medicine and over 30 community and academic faculty in the Department of Family Medicine. Students work with a community family physician, attend case discussion groups, give patient presentations, co-manage patients on the inpatient team, and see patients at a variety of community sites. Faculty-led workshops assist students in learning to interpret ECG's and chest x-rays, manage common complaints and diseases of adults and children, and decide on appropriate cancer screening strategies among other educational skill building exercises. Two weeks of inpatient care at UT Medical Center includes several call nights with a supervising family medicine resident. Students are introduced to outpatient and hospital based procedures. A small group presentation regarding a clinical question from their outpatient work orients students to Evidence-based Medicine (EBM) and assists them in developing PowerPoint 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 (6 weeks) will be spent exploring the professional life of their community family physician preceptor, primarily through supervised patient care in an outpatient setting.
For more information about the Knoxville Family Medicine clerkship, please contact Jon Parham, DO, MPH, Predoctoral Director, for information: jparham@utk.edu; Phone: (865) 305-9352; Fax: (865) 305-6532. For information about our M4 rotation opportunities and our residency program, please visit our website, http://gsm.utmck.edu/family_medicine/main.htm.
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