3rd Year Ambulatory Primary Care Clerkship

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Department
Medicine
Course Number
MED 301-BA
Course Title 3rd Year Ambulatory Primary Care Clerkship
Course Director
Randi Braman, DO
Length (Weeks)

4
When Offered

Per cohort
Prerequisites

None
Availability Notes

This is a required clerkship for 3rd year students. See syllabus for additional details.
Contact Name
Amber Williams
Contact Phone
Contact Fax
Contact Email
amanuel2@lifebridgehealth.org
Other Contacts

Dr. Braman (rbraman@lifebridgehealth.org)
Location

Sinai Hospital of Baltimore
Limit
Report
Evaluation

Honors/High Pass/Pass/Conditional/Fail. See syllabus for additional details.
Description

The Primary Care Clerkship (PCC) is a four-week primary care-focused, immersive learning experience designed to help students acquire the knowledge, clinical skills, and professional behaviors necessary to develop specific competencies needed for the evaluate and care for patients in the ambulatory/primary care setting.

See syllabus for additional details.
Additional Notes

Clerkship Learning Objectives:

At the end of this clerkship, the student should be able to:

  1. Demonstrate the ability to evaluate health concerns through an appropriate history, physical examination, synthesize differential diagnosis, and formulate a diagnostic plan of care in the ambulatory care setting.
  2. Demonstrate effective written and verbal presentation skills.
  3. Demonstrate effective communication with patients, their families, caregivers, and members of the health care team.
  4. Apply evidence-based medicine principles and practice algorithms relevant to patients seeking
  5. preventative and chronic disease care.
  6. Demonstrate systems based practice through collaboration with other members of the health care team and assist patients in navigating complex systems of care.
  7. Demonstrate an understanding of health promotion and disease prevention principles.
    Interpret diagnostic results and develop an evidence-based, patient-centered treatment plan for common presentations in the ambulatory care setting.
  8. Apply knowledge of the basic sciences to clinical care in the ambulatory care setting.
  9. Demonstrate a commitment to lifelong learning through inquiry and reflective practice and systems based practice.
  10. Demonstrate an understanding of the means by which structural bias, social inequities, and racism undermine health and principles of achieving health equity.
  11. Use learner-centered, culturally responsive principles to educate patients about medical issues in the ambulatory care setting.
  12. Demonstrate professionalism in all interactions, duties, and responsibilities.

See syllabus for additional details.