The OSU Department of Family Medicine offers students extensive clinical opportunities.
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Students will explore the Patient-Centered Medical Curriculum, including Physician Development and the Doctor-Patient Relationship module.
The Ambulatory Care Clerkship family medicine month is a requirement for all medical students, and has become a model for the College of Medicine to teach about ambulatory health care. Structured as a four-week rotation, students may choose among the following clinical clerkships to better individualize their studies:
The Department offers experiences in the DOC-4 subinternship and DOC-3 Chronic Care Selective. The subinternships are offered at OSU, East, Mt. Carmel, Riverside Methodist Hospital, and Grant. Our DOC-3 selective is Healthcare for the Homeless. The Department of Family Medicine offers several elective rotations at the fourth-year level. These include an Advanced Family Practice Elective, which requires students to participate in an out-of-hospital setting and to prepare with his/her advisor specific goals, objectives, performance criteria, learning activities, and relevant evaluation mechanisms to stress advanced family medicine concepts. The Department also offers a variety of sub-internships in the DOC-4 selective to enhance students' inpatient skills.
Standardized patients provide students with realistic physician-patient experiences in an educational setting, helping to aid the transition to medical practice. Students practice patient examination and decision-making skills on volunteers that exhibit the symptoms of a wide range of diseases, along with the personalities, emotions and response patterns found in real-life scenarios.