Mission
Foundations or Clinical Medicine seeks to develop a broad range of clinical and professional capabilities. FCM develops
the necessary skill sets through 4 separate, but integrated programs: Tuesday Seminars, the pre-clerkship patient-based curriculum: RAMP and CPCP, Physical Diagnosis, and Communication in Medicine.
Goal
Facilitate the transformation from student to doctor, focusing on the doctor/patient relationship, on the roles of physicians in systems and in society, on professionalism and leadership, and on clinical skills.
Programs Overview
Tuesday Seminars continues the theme of 'doctoring' begun in Block 1 through the examination of relationship between the physician and the patient, the family and the community; professionalism; healthcare disparities; cultural competence, quality improvement; law and medicine; medical error/patient safety, development of mindful practitioners and end of life issues
Communications: 7 workshops focusing on the range of skills needed for effectively talking with patients including the
basic medical interview, educating patients about a disease, counseling patients for health behavior change, and presenting difficult news and diagnosis.
Yr I & Yr II
RAMP: Rotating Apprenticeships in Medical Practice is designed to expose students to various clinical settings to
enhance observational and reflection skills in the context of the doctor/patient relationship and the role of physicians in society.
Yr I August-December
CPCP: in the Community Patient Care Preceptorship students spend 11afternoons in a community physician's office developing and reinforcing medical interviewing, physical exam and presentation skills (written and oral) with ongoing mentorship from a preceptor and an innovative online curriculum.
11 sessions: Spring or Summer or Fall Yr I or Yr II
Physical Diagnosis:
PD1: Introduction to the basic adult exam for 1 session/week for 7 weeks
Yr I September - November
PD2: 11 in-depth regional exams in various formats Yr I & Yr II
PD3: Complete history, physical and write up of 5 patients on the in-patient setting Yr II
OSCE (Objective Structured Clinical Exam)
Yr I: April
Yr II: January |
