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The Family Medicine Clerkship is a 6 week clerkship required of all junior students as of
July 2000. This experience is focused on community-based ambulatory practice and is based
in offices of family physicians. The Department has developed a network of about 150
volunteer preceptors who serve as Tulane Clinical Faculty members, located from Lake
Charles across most of central and south Louisiana, into south Mississippi, and into the
Florida Panhandle. There are sites in rural and urban settings, with solo practitioners,
group practices and military practice sites, and in Family Medicine residencies.
The student learns one on one with a primary mentor, focusing on common acute and chronic diseases, undifferentiated complaints, prevention, and the process of primary care - skills and knowledge of great relevance to all students whatever their final choice of specialty. During the Clerkship, students live near the preceptor's office in facilities arranged through and provided by the local community. They adopt their host family physician's schedule and participate in the spectrum of family practice including office care, hospital rounds, the consultation/referral process, medical staff meetings, nursing homes care, and other community activities. Students also have the experience of designing, completing and then presenting a family medicine project to their peers at the completion of the rotation. For more information, please see:
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