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Medical Student Rotations
Family Medicine
Giving students the opportunity to observe and participate.
Opportunities
- 3rd Year Core Clinical Clerkship
- 4th Year Sub-Internship
- 4th Year Outpatient Sub-Internship
- 4th Year Combined FM/EM Elective
Unique Attributes
The first week of this rotation is spent in orientation, core lectures and electronic chart training. One week is spent in a family practitioner’s office in the community. Most of these physicians are graduates of our program and have practices that include all ages, from prenatal care to newborn to geriatric patients. Two weeks are spent seeing patients in one of our two Family Medicine Centers or our affiliated FQHC (federally qualified health center) Westside Health Center with a faculty member or residents.
One week is spent in some of the following activities:
Unique Attributes
Inpatient services are provided on our Family Medicine team at the Wilmington Hospital in an urban setting. We care for patients from our Family Medicine Center and other Family Medicine community sites, including nursing homes, juvenile detention facilities, community attending physician practices that use our service as their admitting hospitalist group, and also unassigned patients. This service is provided by a team that includes a faculty member, two upper-year residents and three interns. A 4th year student would function in this setting as a subintern with basically the same responsibilities as an intern. Night call is required once per week during this rotation. Students are not expected to stay overnight but can leave between 8:30 and 9 p.m.
Educational opportunities during this rotation include daily teaching rounds run by the faculty attending and/or specialists. Daily ICU rounds are attended by a board-certified intensivist. Noontime conferences are presented three times per week as well as our half day lecture series on Thursday afternoons.
Unique Attributes
This rotation includes 1-2 weeks in a family practitioner’s office in the community. This includes urban and suburban settings. Rotations are generally with graduates of our program who have practices that include all ages, from prenatal care to newborn to geriatric patients. 1-2 weeks are spent seeing patients in one of our two Family Medicine Centers or our affiliated FQHC (federally qualified health center) Westside Health Center with a faculty member or residents.
Educational opportunities during this rotation include our half day lecture series on Thursday afternoons.
This elective rotation would be beneficial to those students interested in pursuing a combined training in family and emergency medicine. Our residency program is the first of its kind in the country, offering a comprehensive and cohesive curriculum that synthesizes the best of these two strong departments.
Training will take place under the supervision of both specialties and is designed to provide the optimal educational experience for those seeking to practice in both specialties.
The Academy understands the importance of communication and high performing teams in the clinical environment and offers several self-paced learning offerings into evidence-based programs to enhance team effectiveness.
Grant will fund the first ChristianaCare Community Health Worker program dedicated to comprehensive support to reduce health disparities in older adults