Family Medicine Student Opportunities in Chattanooga
The UTHSC College of Medicine Chattanooga offers the following three rotations for Medical Students. Please note that the Clerkship is limited to UT M3 Students, other than a four-week version that is offered to UTHSC PA Students assigned to the Chattanooga Campus. The other two courses listed are senior rotations open to both UT and Visiting M4 students:
Family Medicine Clerkship (for M3 UTHSC Students with a 4-week format for UTHSC PA
Students)
FME 30000 - Core Clerkship in Family Medicine (Chattanooga)
Session Length: 6 weeks
This is a face to face clinical rotation. This clerkship is a 6-week clinical experience during which students participate in the breadth of family medicine. Students spend 2 weeks in the inpatient setting caring for medical and obstetrical patients and 4 weeks in an office-based practice, either community or residency-based. Students will experience a broad range of clinical presentations and participate in both inpatient and office-based procedures. Students placed with community preceptors might also experience home visits and nursing home care. Every clerk will work at least one week of night float on an inpatient team. Students are responsible for writing H+Ps, progress notes, and discharge summaries while on inpatient, as well as completing several other written assignments, readings, and logging diagnoses and procedures (community preceptors also allow student EMR access). This clerkship is one of several site options for the core clerkship in Family Medicine.
Grade Mode: Standard
Max per section: 4
Instructional Method: Clinical-Required
Location offered: Chattanooga
Hospital: Erlanger Health System and the UT Family Practice Center in Chattanooga
Prerequisites: Satisfactory completion of 1st two years and Step 1 taken
Term offered: Fall, Spring
Fall - Instructor of Record: Sara Conway - sara.conway@erlanger.org
Spring - Instructor of Record: Sara Conway - sara.conway@erlanger.org
Course Coordinator: Charity Ross - charity.ross@erlanger.org
Website: https://uthsc.edu/comc/medical-education/clerkships/family-medicine.php
Prior Authorization: No
Blocks Not Offered: D
Off-cycle timing allowed: No
Deadline for Excused Absence: Thirty days before start of elective/rotation
Deadline for Cancellation: Thirty days before start of elective/rotation
Overnight Call and/or Float: Yes-1 weekend night shift
Time off for interviews: No
FME 40120 -- Junior Internship in Family Medicine (Chattanooga)
Session Length: 4 weeks
This is a face to face clinical rotation receiving 6 credit hours. The student will function as a junior intern with increased autonomy in patient care and must demonstrate competency in all of the Entrustable Professional Activities required for graduation. The primary purpose of this rotation is to allow senior medical students active participation in the care of patients in a comprehensive Family Medicine setting through selecting from a group of opportunities. Students can expect to achieve the following objectives: (a) Improve skills in providing patient centered care; (b) Exposure to a variety of types of care provided by family physicians; and (c) Development of a better understanding of the scope of Family Medicine. Student responsibilities include patient workups, histories, physical examinations, and review of laboratory and diagnostic data. The student will be expected to evaluate patients, develop a treatment plans, and precept the patient with the attending physician. The student will be directly supervised and guided through this process by members of the clinical faculty and approved preceptors. Continuing medical education and life-long learning are emphasized by requiring students to read daily and report on their reading.
Grade Mode: Standard
Max per section: 1
Instructional Method: Clinical-Required Selective
Location offered: Chattanooga
Hospital: Erlanger Health System and the UT Family Practice Center in Chattanooga
Prerequisites: Completion of 5 CORE Clerkships inclusive of FME-30000
Term offered: Fall, Spring
Fall - Instructor of Record: Sara Conway - sara.conway@erlanger.org
Spring - Instructor of Record: Sara Conway - sara.conway@erlanger.org
Course Coordinator: Charity Ross - charity.ross@erlanger.org
Prior Authorization: No
Blocks Not Offered: 7
Off-cycle timing allowed: No
Deadline for Excused Absence: Thirty days before start of elective/rotation
Deadline for Cancellation: Thirty days before start of elective/rotation
Overnight Call and/or Float: No
Time off for interviews: No
FME 45010 -- Advanced Family Medicine (Chattanooga)
Session Length: 2 and 4 weeks
This is a face to face clinical rotation receiving 3 or 6 credit hours. The student will function with increased autonomy in patient care and must demonstrate competency in all of the Entrustable Professional Activities required for graduation. This clerkship allows students to function as junior interns by assuming substantial patient responsibility on an inpatient teaching service. Available to students may be ambulatory patient care and office exposure to outpatient procedures. Responsibilities may include admission, histories, physicals, daily notes, and treatment plans. Students will be supervised by residents and Family Medicine faculty. The student will be directly supervised and guided through this process by members of the clinical faculty and approved preceptors. The student can expect opportunities for “hands on” experiences and for improving their clinical skills, both in history taking and in physical and laboratory examination as they pertain to medical problems common to Family Medicine.
Grade Mode: Standard
Max per section: 1
Instructional Method: Clinical-Elective
Location offered: Chattanooga
Hospital: Erlanger Health System and the UT Family Practice Center in Chattanooga
Prerequisites: Completion of 5 CORE Clerkships inclusive of FME-30000
Term offered: Fall, Spring
Fall - Instructor of Record: Sara Conway - sara.conway@erlanger.org
Spring - Instructor of Record: Sara Conway - sara.conway@erlanger.org
Course Coordinator: Charity Ross - charity.ross@erlanger.org
Prior Authorization: No
Blocks Not Offered: None
Off-cycle timing allowed: Negotiable
Deadline for Excused Absence: Thirty days before start of elective/rotation
Deadline for Cancellation: Thirty days before start of elective/rotation
Overnight Call and/or Float: No
Time off for interviews: Yes-Students may be allowed some time off provided they contact
the administrator at least 4 weeks prior to the onset of the rotation.