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CHFM plays a major role in medical student teaching and
maintains a key leadership role in educational policy within the
University of Florida College of Medicine. CHFM faculty have
chaired the Curriculum Committee and have had a major impact on
the curriculum, including several very successful innovations. One
of our faculty also serves as Chair of the Clerkship Director's
Committee, and another keeps the College of Medicine on the
cutting edge of educational technology in his role as Assistant
Dean for Informatics. Several other faculty serve on
education-related committees, such as the Curriculum Committee and
the Evaluation and Professionalism Subcommittees of the Curriculum
Committee.
The CHFM faculty involved with our Medical Education Program
are:
Our faculty teach in a number of required first, second and
third year courses, including Essentials of Patient Care; Ethical
and Legal Issues in Medical Practice; Physical Diagnosis;
Epidemiology, and the Medicine, Psychiatry, and Family
Medicine/Geriatrics clerkships. Our faculty serve as course
directors for the following 4 required courses, plus many
electives:
First Year Preceptorship:
This course consistently rates as one
of the highlights of the first year.
Ethical and Legal Issues in Medical Practice:
CHFM faculty
conduct two-hour Ethics sessions with all students on three
different third year clerkships: Pediatrics, Psychiatry, and IGC.
These sessions are rated very highly by students.
Family Medicine and Geriatrics Clerkship (formerly
Interdisciplinary Generalist Clerkship [IGC]):
In an evaluation of
all third year clerkships conducted by the Evaluation Subcommittee
of the Curriculum Committee, our clerkship and OB/GYN tied for the
highest overall rating. This rating was based on a combination of
student evaluations, clerkship structure, educational methods, and
syllabus quality; and
Required Fourth Year Medicine/Family Medicine option:
Students
can satisfy the fourth year Medicine requirement by spending four
weeks on the Family Medicine inpatient service. The Family
Medicine option is popular and all slots are filled early in the
process. Students have responded well to the changes that were
implemented to produce a more consistent and rigorous experience.
Fourth Year Electives:
Our faculty continue to offer a variety
of popular fourth year electives. These include several ethics
electives as well as electives that address rural health care,
student health, HIV, history of medicine, medical informatics,
managed care, and religion and culture.
CHFM also has an excellent track record of successfully
remediating students who have failed the College of Medicine
performance-based exams. Two of our physicians are called upon
each year to remediate students, using a highly effective model
developed by them.
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