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- Third Year Clerkship
During the clinical years, an eight-week full-time clerkship is required. Core
learning experiences take place in ambulatory clinic settings. Students work with
experienced clinicians and senior residents, spending time in University teaching
practices and in community-based practices. Students also may spend time seeing
patients in emergency room, hospital and nursing home settings and taking call
with residents and practicing physicians. A high volume of patients of all ages
with a wide range of problems is encountered. Many patients have undifferentiated
problems.
- Family and Community Medicine Electives
Fourth-year students are encouraged to spend elective time in Family and Community
Medicine which provides students with experience in outpatient primary care. Each
student is assigned to senior family practice residents, fellows, and attendings
in their practices in Columbia or at one of the rural practices in the surrounding
area. Preceptorship with a family physician in private practice, laboratory and
clinical research, or a combination of these also may be arranged.
- Family Medicine Integrated Residency Program
The Family Medicine Integrated Residency program involves selected fourth-year medical students in the life of the residency program. This program includes a continuity care experience in one of our Family Medicine clinics in Columbia, Fayette, or Fulton and residency level rotations in hospital settings. Once accepted into the program, the Integrated Resident (IR) takes on intern responsibilities during their 3-6 “residency months” scattered throughout their fourth year of medical school. IRs participate in resident-level rotations (receiving both medical school and residency credit when available), attend weekly resident meetings and didactic sessions as well as start building a patient panel by working one-on-one with a third-year family medicine residents in clinic. This has been an outstanding educational experience for students confident that they wish to complete family medicine training at MU. Applications are available each year in February and the new class of Family Medicine Integrated Residents is announced on May 15th. For more information, please contact:
Blair Harris, Family Practice Residency Coordinator
MA303 Medical Sciences Building
(573) 882-6061
- A Community Health Preceptorship
Four-week assignment to a family physician in private practice.
- P Postgraduate Medical Instruction
A residency program in family medicine is offered to qualified physicians. A postdoctoral
program in faculty development in family medicine is offered.
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