This six week clerkship is a supervised experience in the evaluation and management of patients seen primarily in the ambulatory family medicine practice setting. Many of the patients have undifferentiated health problems. Evaluations and management of health problems are emphasized. Teaching sites are also in private practices located in Augusta, Thomson, Waynesboro, Jesup, Blackshear, Moultrie, Tifton, Valdosta, and Villa Rica, Georgia and Edgefield, South Carolina. This 12 week core clerkship provides background in the fundamentals, principles and skills of Internal Medicine.
Students actively participate in patient care as a member of the health care team.
Bedside clinical skills, patient presentations, writeups, logical approach to diagnostic decision making, as well as accumulation and synthesis of medical knowledge are emphasized. This 4 week clerkship provides an introduction to general neurological problems through direct supervised patient management. The acquisition of basic skills in history taking and physical diagnosis of neurological patients are stressed. Emphasis is placed on the ability to assimilate historical information and physical findings to diagnose an existing neurological lesion. The recognition and management of neurological emergencies is included.