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FAMILY MEDICINE 
For StudentsPrinciples of Primary Care Course Family Medicine Clerkship Requirements |
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Family Medicine Rotation Syllabus |
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Required Booklist |
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Evaluation Forms; Clinical encounter log, procedure logs |
Family Medicine Rotation Sites & Faculty |
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Meet the Family Medicine Faculty |
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Family Medicine Site-Specific Instructions |
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Family Medicine Fellowships and Careers |
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Family Medicine Web Links and Resources |
For Faculty |
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Faculty Development and CME Program |
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Useful Faculty Development Links (go to Quick Links) |
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Clinical Faculty Application |
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Preceptor Evaluation of Students |
Family Medicine Principles of Primary Care
The Principles of Primary Care Course is under the family medicine department, however its faculty includes family physicians, pediatricians, and internal medicine physicians. In Block 1 the Principles of Primary Care course provides a history of medicine, professional curriculum on entering the profession and becoming a professional, medical licensing and governance, basic patient communication skills, and cultural sensitivity. The course assists the student in developing the use of the most basic of senses including smell, touch, auscultation, visual inspection, and hearing to examine a system. The course is then extended throughout the eight blocks of curriculum and includes the skills in physical diagnosis in each system learned in both the lecture and laboratory setting, preventive medicine for each system, differential diagnosis and diagnostic reasoning, and critical thinking.
The course also works closely with the Osteopathic Principles and Practice Chair to integrate osteopathic principles in the care of patients, the osteopathic structural exam of the musculoskeletal system, structural changes that occur in each system with abnormalities, and introduces the most basic Osteopathic Manipulative Medicine techniques to correct structural abnormalities.
Course syllabi are developed for each block and may be found on (Scholar for the students and faculty login required)
VCOM TV houses lectures and video-demontrations of physical diagnosis exams and techniques (login required).