Students will learn about and participate in individual and group counseling and after care programs. By practicing in the ambulatory care setting of a college campus health clinic, the medical student will be able to see a large volume of patients and a variety of medical problems. After an initial period of observation and supervision, the student will be able to assume responsibility as the patients' primary care physician. Thus, the student will be able to perform ample history and physical examinations, order laboratory and radiologic studies as indicated, make diagnoses, and issue treatment as necessary. This rotation gives the student the opportunity to improve his skills, not only at diagnosis and treatment, but also at dictating patient charts, consulting fellow physicians, making referrals to specialists when appropriate, and seeing patients for follow-up medical care.
Emphasis is on delivery of continuity of care in a constantly-changing environment.
Inpatient care in the continuum is also integrated. Students will be assigned readings in important current topics and discuss these in seminars with faculty. They will also participate in Ethics consultations and have opportunities to participate in research. To analyze the enzymic targets of new anticancer drugs currently used in clinical practice in the areas of purine, pyrimidine metabolism and signal transduction. This course will expand the student's fund of knowledge regarding the principals of breast cancer biology, diagnosis, and treatment of patients with breast cancer.