Clinical Experiences

Goals

Specific goals for students assigned with faculty in the clinical setting are to:

• Acquire knowledge of the dynamics of a physician’s office.
• Develop skills by performing basic physical assessments
  in the presence of clinical faculty.
• Expand psychosocial skills.
• Draw from knowledge acquired in the classroom or lecture
  hall to understand the complexities of the human body and possible disease processes witnessed in this CCE assignment.

Objectives

While participating in the assignment with clinical faculty, medical students will:

• Recognize the manner in which the clinical faculty
  interacts with patients and the ancillary staff.
• Develop interviewing and psychosocial skills essential to the physician-patient relationship, such as:
  • Obtaining a history from the patient.
  • Interviewing patients regarding the chief complaint.
  • Providing appropriate patient education related to each patient (e.g. newly prescribed medications, lifestyle changes, newly diagnosed disease process, etc.)
• Develop basic physical assessment skills, such as:

• Performing assessments of chief complaint.

• Performing any other physical assessment skills with the preceptor as appropriate for each patient and student.

• Relate the knowledge acquired in this CCE to that acquired
  in classroom/lecture hall by:

• Asking the clinical faculty to suggest specific
  readings on a topic presented during the CCE.

• Reflecting upon the experience.

• Completing the evaluation forms in order to gain insight
  into the duties of the physician.

Remember: Open communication and enthusiasm to learn
lend themselves to a good educational experience.

Clinical Faculty Evaluation

The CCE evaluation form serves as both an educational tool and documentation of CCE participation.  Students will be submitting evaluations of clinical faculty electronically; a link to the form is available on Blackboard.  Comments will be sent to the faculty anonymously at the end of the academic year.

Faculty will complete evaluations of student by hand; the forms for you to print and take with you to your experiences are available here.  Learning goals to structure the experience are listed at the top of the form.  You will need one form for each CCE.
CPC1 (Fall 2011 / Winter 2012 / Spring 2012)
 
CPC2 (Fall 2011 / Winter 2012 / Spring 2012)

PCC 1 (Fall 2011/ Winter 2012/Spring 2012)
 
PCC 2 (Fall 2011/ Winter 2012/ Spring 2012)