Family Medicine Rotation
Assessment
Mid-Rotation Assessment
Mid-Rotation Assessment
Domains assessed: Fund of Knowledge, Knowledge Integration, History taking, Clinical Examination, Clinical Management, Learning Skills, Communication Skills, Professional Responsibility and Integrity, Pursuit of Excellence and Insight, Personal Interactions. Essential Clinical Encounters review.
Curriculum Block
Clerkship / Family Medicine Rotation
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Objectives
Clerkship Objectives
- Demonstrate an approach to the diagnosis and management of undifferentiated patient problems that present to family physicians.
- Discuss common ethical issues in family medicine through the life cycle including topics such as confidentiality, consent and capacity.
- 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).
- Identify and/or communicate with other health care providers and community programs to support and/or optimize patient care.
- Discuss evidence-based approaches to patient care and the challenges of applying guidelines to individual patients.
- Demonstrate life long learning practices in providing care to patients.
- 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.
- Conduct a sensitive, focused physical exam relevant to the patient’s presenting problem.
- Demonstrate an approach to health promotion and disease prevention during patient encounters that reflect best evidence and patient preferences and values.
- 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 the diagnosis and management of common patient problems that present to family physicians (see Essential Clinical Encounter presenting problems for Family Medicine).
- Gastrointestinal
- Describe how illness presents differently through the life cycle and in the family medicine setting compared to other settings.
- By the end of the rotation, the learner will be able to:
- Gain skills and experience in meeting patients’ needs for prevention, problem identification and management, and complex disease management through episodic care of patients and their families in the community practice setting.
- 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.
- Appreciate the challenges in addressing complex, diverse patient care issues longitudinally.
- An understanding of how virtual or same-site interprofessional teams function in the context of the primary care environment.
- An understanding of the broad scope of family medicine
- Genitourinary
- Respiratory
- Musculoskeletal
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
8.2 Practice flexibility and maturity in adjusting to change with the capacity to alter one’s behaviour
8.3 Develop the ability to use self-awareness of knowledge, skills, and emotional limitation to seek help appropriately
8.4 Demonstrate awareness and acceptance of different points of view
MeSH
Clinical Clerkship [I02.358.399.450.110]
