Welcome to the Primary Care Clerkship.  I hope that you will find it to be a very challenging, and hopefully, enjoyable experience.

The aim of the clerkship is to introduce you to the various specialties involved in primary care (Family Medicine, Internal Medicine, Internal Medicine/Pediatrics, and Pediatrics), and to have you learn about and provide care for various patient populations in the outpatient setting.

The clerkship is a 12-week rotation that will provide you with the opportunity to experience the different primary care specialties. You will have a continuous experience with primary care faculty throughout the 12 weeks, which will sort of be a home base for you. You will then also go through various clinical experiences that focus on the different patient populations encountered in primary care - those which might require special care or consideration. Keep in mind that this clinical part of your medical education can vary. Each of you will work with different preceptors and patients, as is the case in all of your other clerkships. Your experiences will therefore differ. Through the use of assigned readings, didactic sessions, weekly quizzes, online case studies, and our frequent contact with our faculty we hope to maintain a comparable experience for all students.

I truly hope you will enjoy this clerkship. Everyone is working hard to make this clerkship the best possible. I look forward to working with you during this clerkship. If you have any questions or concerns, please do not hesitate to call or email Barbara Brooks or me.