Year 3 (Clerkship)

Welcome to Family Medicine!

This 6-week rotation is divided into 2-week and 4-week blocks. During the 4-week block you will work with a family physician preceptor in a private practice in London or in a smaller community in Ontario. You will spend the 2-week block with a family practice team in one of the family medicine teaching units located in London and Mount Brydges. 

This experience has been designed to give you an appreciation of the scope of Family Medicine, the importance of the doctor/patient relationship, and the role of family medicine in the community. Whatever your plans for residency, this rotation is a valuable learning opportunity for patient care in a family practice context. You will develop experience in dealing with the common problems that are seen in family medicine, in accessing community services, and in working on a team within a health care system that is changing and becoming more and more directed to ambulatory, multi disciplinary care.   We hope that this will be a rewarding and enjoyable rotation for you.
 
The central goal of the Family Medicine clerkship is to help you to enhance your skills in applying the Patient-Centred Clinical Method to understand the patient's personal experience of their illness and find common ground regarding management decisions. This includes:

· Becoming effective in interviewing patients

· Conducting a skilled and sensitive physical assessment

· Enhancing your clinical reasoning skills

· Finding and using the best evidence available

· Applying the principles of prevention whenever possible

· Understanding each patient in the context of the "big picture” – the patient as a person, their family and community and their ecosystem

· Demonstrating professional behaviour when interacting with patients, colleagues and staff.

 
Highlights:
6 week block split between 4 week community and 2 week teaching centre rotations
Various communities from Chatham to Tobermory.
Exit interview exam using electronic audience response system (clickers)
Access to dermatology modules and online cases
Mileage and accommodation paid for by Department

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