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Family and Community Medicine

Faculty teach the concepts of primary, rural and community health care. Faculty members also conduct population-based health services and clinical research. Methodologies are drawn primarily from clinical epidemiology, behavioral sciences and statistics. Students receive experience in the department's family-practice centers in Columbia, Fayette and Fulton as part of the required primary-care clerkship. They also participate in a four-week preceptorship during their third or fourth year of medical school. The preceptorship allows students to live and work with a practicing family physician in a small community. Faculty participate in the School of Medicine's problem-based curriculum as group facilitators and in the introduction to patient care component of the curriculum as preceptors. Electives include geriatrics, methods in community health education, health aspects of the environment, statistical epidemiology and medical care and chronic diseases.

Last Updated 9/4/08

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