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Predoctoral Education Family Medicine Electives The Department of Family Medicine offers the following electives and selectives:
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Acting Internship in Inpatient Family Medicine in Austin Course Number: FAMO-4150 Students will participate in the management and care of inpatients on the Family Practice service, perform Hx & PEs, write progress notes and orders, review pathology studies, and review x-rays. This elective is open to all senior students who have successfully completed the FM clerkship. Contact Tina Comeaux at 512-324-7318 : tcomeaux@seton.org Clinical Research in Family Medicine Course Number: FAMR-4002 Concepts from clinical decision making and clinical epidemiology will be emphasized in this elective. Students may select a clinical problem of their own interest or work with faculty on an existing project. This four-week or longer elective is open to senior students.Contact Carol Carlson at 409-772-9863: ccarlson@utmb.edu Urgent Care Elective Course Number: FAMU 4043 The student will work in the Family Medicine Urgent Care Clinic eight 1/2 days each week during the 4 week rotation. The student will be exposed to the rapid assessment and workup of acutely ill and injured patients. They will also gain experience in the diagnosis and initial management of common problems encountered in an urgent care center. The student will have the opportunity to learn and assist in a variety of procedures including: suturing, splinting, incision and drainage, wound care, and interpretating X-rays. Contact Diedra Walters at 409-747-9344: dwalters@utmb.edu The Healer's Art Course Number: FAMU-1044 (Preceptorship) Preclinical Preceptorship. Becoming a healer requires more of us than just the acquisition of technical knowledge and skills. The Healer's Art course will help students understand that medicine is a work of the heart and the soul as well as the intellect. The Healer's Art course takes an interactive, comtemplative and didactic approach to enabling students to perceive the personal and univeral meaning in their experience of medicine. While there is a didactic component to the course, by design it is process-oriented and allows for sharing of experiences, beliefs and personal truths. The course consists of 5 three hour sessions, each of which will be have a large group and a small group component. Faculty facilitators will be present for both small and large group sessions. Large group activities range include short faculty "seed talks" which help to stimulate large group discussion about the topic for the evening. Small group activities range from sharing personal stories of loss, grief, awe and mystery and composing a personal Hippocratic Oath. In addition, participants will have directed reading and journaling assignments and will write a short paper. The session topics are: 1. Discovering Your Wholeness 2. Sharing Grief 3. Honoring Loss 4. Allowing Awe in Medicine 5. Care of the Soul - Contact Diedra Walters at 409-747-9344: dwalters@utmb.edu Acting Internship in Family Medicine Course Number: FAMU-4001 This is a 4-week elective open to all senior medical students. The student is given the opportunity to become comfortable with an increased level of responsibility for total patient care on the hospital service.Contact Diedra Walters at 409-747-9344: dwalters@utmb.edu Family Medicine Preceptorship Course Number: FAMU-4002 The student may select a preceptor / site within the state of Texas. The student will participate in activities in which the preceptor is involved including office practice, hospitalized patients, nursing home care, office management, continuing medical education programs, emergency room call, surgical procedures, civic activity and medical staff meetings. This elective is open to all senior students and junior students who have successfully completed the IM or FM clerkship. Contact Shirley Pearson at 409-772-3126: spearson@utmb.edu Geriatrics for the Family Physician Course Number: FAMU-4003 The student will receive individual supervision as he or she performs appropriate medical and psychosocial assessment of geriatric patients, primarily in the ambulatory setting. This four-week elective is open to all senior students.Contact Diedra Walters at 409-747-9344: dwalters@utmb.edu Medical Spanish and Hispanic Culture Course Number: FAMU-4004 The emphasis of this elective is primarily linguistic with a focus on conversational medical Spanish. This four-week elective is open to all senior students.Contact Marianne Trainer at 409-0637: mtrainer@utmb.edu International Primary Health Care Course Number: FAMU-4005 In collaboration with faculty, students will identify a primary care, public and/or community health site. Activities will vary depending on the student’s interests and the specific site, but might include direct provision of medical care, assessing the health of the community, or involvement in health education projects. For more information, please visit the PAHO/WHO Collaborating Center for Training in International Health website.Contact Marianne Trainer at 409-0637: mtrainer@utmb.edu Family Medicine Ambulatory Community Selective Course Number: FAMU-4013 More information about this course can be found in the AC Selectives brochure by clicking on Family Medicine and then the course number. Complementary and Integrative Medicine Course Number: FAMU-4019 In this four-week course students will become familiar with the seven areas of alternative medicine and will develop skills to apply in their clinical practices. This elective is open to all senior students. More information can be found on the CIM elective webpage.Contact Nickie Prelow at 409-772-1847: wnprelow@utmb.edu Public Health Interdisciplinary Ambulatory Community Selective Course Number: FAMU-4020 More information about this course can be found in the AC Selectives brochure by clicking on Family Medicine and then the course number. Integrated Community Health Project Course Number: FAMU-4021 Students will be immersed in a Hispanic community at Brownsville, Texas. Students will spend two afternoons a week in a community clinic and one day per week at a federally qualified health center. Students will also participate in a community-based health education and promotion program emphasizing preclinical management and prevention of disease.Contact Dr. Kirk Smith at 409-772-9394: klsmith@utmb.edu Integrated Community Health Ambulatory Community Selective Course Number: FAMU-4022 Students will be immersed in a Hispanic community at Brownsville, Texas with clinic time at the Frontera de Salud Clinic in Cameron Park. Student clinic experiences will emphasize hypertension, hyperlipidemia, cardiovascular disease, diabetes and its complications, and mental illness. Students will also become acquainted with community-based health education and promotion programs and with ancillary services such as nurse-educators, social workers, and mental health counselors. This selective is open to all senior students. Contact Kirk Smith, MD at 409-772-9394: klsmith@utmb.edu Narrative Medicine Course Number: FAMU-4023 Students taking this elective will focus on the complex medical/societal problems disproportionately burden medically underserved populations. The constructs of narrative medicine will be introduced and used to guide personal, self- reflective writing assignments which will be based in part on students’ own experiences with patients, beginning with POM 1 and continuing through the 3rd year clerkships. Contact Diedra Walters at 409-747-9344: dwalters@utmb.edu Policy/Public Health Course Number: FAMU-4024 Students will gain firsthand experience in policy/legislation development processes while learning about the profession and practice of medicine in a community practice setting. Contact: 409-772-7884 The Healer's Art Course Number: FAMU-4025 Becoming a healer requires more of us than just the acquisition of technical knowledge and skills. The Healer's Art course will help students understand that medicine is a work of the heart and the soul as well as the intellect. The Healer's Art course takes an interactive, comtemplative and didactic approach to enabling students to perceive the personal and univeral meaning in their experience of medicine. While there is a didactic component to the course, by design it is process-oriented and allows for sharing of experiences, beliefs and personal truths. The course consists of 5 three hour sessions, each of which will be have a large group and a small group component. Faculty facilitators will be present for both small and large group sessions. Large group activities range include short faculty "seed talks" which help to stimulate large group discussion about the topic for the evening. Small group activities range from sharing personal stories of loss, grief, awe and mystery and composing a personal Hippocratic Oath. In addition, participants will have directed reading and journaling assignments and will write a short paper. The session topics are: 1. Discovering Your Wholeness 2. Sharing Grief 3. Honoring Loss 4. Allowing Awe in Medicine 5. Care of the Soul - Contact Diedra Walters at 409 747-9344: dwalters@utmb.edu BSHS Selective:The Healer's Art Course Number: FAMU-4026 Becoming a healer requires more of us than just the acquisition of technical knowledge and skills. The Healer's Art course will help students understand that medicine is a work of the heart and the soul as well as the intellect. The Healer's Art course takes an interactive, comtemplative and didactic approach to enabling students to perceive the personal and univeral meaning in their experience of medicine. While there is a didactic component to the course, by design it is process-oriented and allows for sharing of experiences, beliefs and personal truths. The course consists of 5 three hour sessions, each of which will be have a large group and a small group component. Faculty facilitators will be present for both small and large group sessions. Large group activities range include short faculty "seed talks" which help to stimulate large group discussion about the topic for the evening. Small group activities range from sharing personal stories of loss, grief, awe and mystery and composing a personal Hippocratic Oath. In addition, participants will have directed reading and journaling assignments and will write a short paper. The session topics are: 1. Discovering Your Wholeness 2. Sharing Grief 3. Honoring Loss 4. Allowing Awe in Medicine 5. Care of the Soul - Contact Diedra Walters at 409-747-9344: dwalters@utmb.edu Preclinical Preceptorship in FM: Primary Health Care in Developing Countries Course Number: FAMU-4041 After 3 days of preparatory lectures and workshops, students will travel to rural Nicaragua as part of a comprehensive medical team sponsored by the First Presbyterian Church of Galveston. They will work in a rural clinic which provides primary health care services to poor women and children. Students will assist in triage and the pharmacy, as well as perform H & P’s and procedures under supervision of faculty and volunteer providers and have the opportunity to interact with local health care providers, and witness the challenges of providing medical care in a resource poor setting. For more information about this course, please visit the course's webpage on the PAHO/WHO Collaborating Center for Training in International Health website.Contact Contact Marianne Trainer at 409-772-0637: mtrainer@utmb.edu BSHS Selective: Developing Interactive Web-based Cases Course Number: FAMU-4051 Medical students that are interested in the integration of basic sciences into clinical care, teaching/academia in any specialty (especially suited for primary care) and those interested in web-case design and informatics would most benefit from this course. The objectives of this course are: 1) develop problem-based interactive clinical cases with integration of relevant basic science topics (anatomy, patho-physiology, and pharmacology) into the cases, 2) understand the importance of underlying basic science principles in clinical medicine, 3) learn to use the Design-A-Case online software to develop the web-based case.Contact Diedra Walters at 409-747-9344: dwalters@utmb.edu Complementary and Integrative Medicine Ambulatory Community Selective Course Number: FAMU-4053 This ACS provides students an in-depth experience with a practicing integrative family physician. Students will participate in clinical, experimental, and scholarly learning in Complementary and Integrative Medicine fields. Sites for this selective are in Houston and Austin.Contact Nickie Prelow at 409-772-1847: wnprelow@utmb.edu Pubic Health Interdisciplinary Ambulatory Community Selective- St. Vincent’s Clinic Course Number: FAMU-4059 More information about this course can be found in the AC Selectives brochure by clicking on Family Medicine and then the course number. Primary Care Telemedicine Course Number: FAMU-4115 Students taking this elective will be able to observe and participate in the delivery of clinical care at-a-distance. Telemedicine, as a delivery mode for primary care, will be looked at from both the physician’s and the patient’s perspectives. Every effort will also be made to match the student’s interest in a clinical discipline with a physician conducting telemedicine in that area. Delivery of clinical care through telemedicine technologies will be experienced firsthand and reflected upon in a research paper. This elective is open to all senior students.Contact Diedra Walters at 409-747-9344: dwalters@utmb.edu Medical Spanish Abroad Course Number: INTL-4042, INTL-1042 Students will enroll in a Spanish language course that has been approved by the PAHO/WHO Collaborating Center for Training in International Health. Most programs will include a homestay, at least 4 hours per day of language instruction, work in a clinic or hospital setting to practice their medical language skills, as well as cultural immersion activities. For more information, please visit the PAHO/WHO Collaborating Center for Training in International Health web site.Contact Marianne Trainer at 409-0637: mtrainer@utmb.edu |
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