The Large group discussions will be designed to amplify, refine and resolve clinical questions. They will not cover material in the reading assignments from scratch. We urge you to read ahead of each session in order to be ready for each day's presentation. A number of the sessions will include patients and patient advocates demonstrations of interviewing or physical examination techniques. Whenever possible, videos and films depicting patient encounters will be used to illustrate common triumphs or difficulties encountered in patient evaluations.
Small groups meet in classrooms and a variety of health facility settings.
Ambulatory Preceptorships 7. A special written assignment follows the ambulatory preceptorships. All students are required to turn in one and maintain a file with a second copy of these write-ups. The small group faculty will make suggestions for improving the write-ups in a timely manner and return these to the students. Write-ups are also due after special sessions on physical diagnosis of the genitalia, breast, neurology and ENT examinations.