This project is an institutional,
collaborative effort between the three primary care disciplines.
It will develop a Community-Based Education Division that will
be an expanded administrative unit under the Department of Family
Medicine. Through this Division, the Institution administers
and provides quality clinical education and service experiences
that effectively and efficiently develops primary care oriented
and community-responsive physicians.
The Community Based Education
Division has the following specific objectives:
- To provide the administrative support and
organization of Community-Based Resources for the primary care
departments throughout the Medical Curriculum Program.
- To
establish liaisons or partnerships with community-based
primary care physicians and clinical practice organizations
that serve as a resource for clinical experiences throughout
the medical curriculum.
- To
develop and coordinate community service experiences for
medical students with underserved and high-risk populations.
A predoctoral Training Grant
in Primary Care Supported by HRSA for teaching Geriatrics in
Primary Care started in June 2004.
This project is an institutional,
collaborative effort between the Department of Family Medicine and
the Department of Internal Medicine.
Through this project, we will be working in developing a
curriculum, which goals are:
·
To prepare community-responsive
physicians with the competencies to assess the needs of the
elderly in a community and work with its members towards the
resolution of their problems.
·
To aid the student in evaluating
primary care as a potential specialty for practice by experiencing
community-based primary care which portrays the essence of
community practice and the role of the generalist practitioner.
The Project
will concentrate in attaining the following specific objectives:
1.
Develop and
implement a required Curriculum in Gerontology and Geriatric
Medicine for all students in years 1, 2, and 3 in the medicine
program and selective/electives in the fourth year.
2.
To recruit, develop
and retain a base of multi-disciplinary community-based training
sites to support the gerontology/geriatrics curriculum.
3.
To improve geriatric competencies in geriatric
practice and teaching by the creation and implementation of
faculty development activities in clinical training in geriatrics
for individual primary care physicians.
For more information contact Dr.
Marta Febo
, MD, Project Director mfebo@psm.edu)
or Dr.
Muņeca Rivera
, MD, Family Medicine Geriatrician Coordinator (murivera@psm.edu).
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