The Continuity Clinic Clerkship is designed to better prepare medical students for the medical practice environment of the 21st Century.
Emphasis is placed on experiencing continuity of care of patients in an outpatient clinic setting.
The curriculum is also designed to introduce the student to basic managing care concepts beginning with basic information gathering and ending with decision making issues in ethics and resource allocation. To begin practicing evidence-based and clinical preventive medicine. To recognize and integrate health care resources of patient populations and community-based populations. To apply ethical principles to the challenges of clinical practice in health systems. To recognize the multiple roles of the clinician in health care systems and health finance.