Family Medicine Clerkship Tutorials
Activity
Tutorial
Tutorial
Family Medicine clerkship tutorials, a key component of the rotation, are weekly sessions, which are 90 to 120 minutes in length and are held throughout the 4 week rotation.
Curriculum Block
Clerkship / Family Medicine Rotation
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Objectives
Clerkship Objectives
- An understanding of the broad scope of family medicine
- Appreciate the challenges in addressing complex, diverse patient care issues longitudinally.
- Appreciate the nature of some of the specific challenges in the provision of primary care to patients, such as addressing undifferentiated illness, chronic illnesses and preventive care issues.
- Describe how illness presents differently through the life cycle and in the family medicine setting compared to other settings.
- Demonstrate an approach to the diagnosis and management of undifferentiated patient problems that present to family physicians.
- Demonstrate an approach to the diagnosis and management of common patient problems that present to family physicians (see Essential Clinical Encounter presenting problems for Family Medicine).
- Demonstrate effective communication skills in conducting a patient centered interview, including exploring the patient’s illness experience as well as the family and social context.
- Demonstrate an approach to health promotion and disease prevention during patient encounters that reflect best evidence and patient preferences and values.
- Conduct a sensitive, focused physical exam relevant to the patient’s presenting problem.
- Demonstrate effective oral and written communication skills in documenting clinical encounters, making oral case presentations, prescription writing and making referrals to other care providers through clear, concise, efficient communication strategies.
- Discuss evidence-based approaches to patient care and the challenges of applying guidelines to individual patients.
- Understand the special needs of vulnerable groups related to disparities and inequities in seeking and receiving care. (e.g. Aboriginals, recent immigrants, same-sex relationships, transgendered, marginally housed, disabled, age extremes).
- Discuss common ethical issues in family medicine through the life cycle including topics such as confidentiality, consent and capacity.
Assessments
Clerkship Tutorial Evaluation
Tags
Curriculum Block
Clerkship
Family Medicine Rotation
Discipline
Family medicine
McMaster Program Competencies
3.1 Solicit and respond to feedback from peers, teachers, supervisors, patients, families, and members of health care teams regarding one’s knowledge, skills, attitudes and professional behaviours
3.2 Integrate feedback, external measures of performance and reflective practices to identify strengths, deficiencies, and limits in one’s knowledge, skills, attitudes and professional behaviours
3.3 Set learning and improvement goals
3.4 Identify and perform learning activities that address one’s gaps in knowledge, skills, and/or attitudes
3.5 Understand principles of continuous quality improvement and how to incorporate them into practice improvement
3.6 Locate, appraise, and incorporate evidence from research related to patients’ health problems and the provision of healthcare
3.7 Use information technology and information systems to optimize patient care
3.8 Obtain and use information about individual patients and their caregivers, populations of patients, or communities with which patients identify to improve care
3.9 Continually identify, analyze, and implement new knowledge, guidelines, standards, technologies, products, or services that have been demonstrated to improve outcomes
3.99 Other practice-based learning and improvement
