Medical Student Education Program
Courses
FAP430: Family Medicine Clerkship (6 units)
This pass/fail clerkship is required for all third-year medical students. It is a six-week clerkship with five weeks spent in a primary care office with one week of didactics led by family medicine department faculty. In this clerkship, students will learn to evaluate and manage health problems commonly encountered in a primary care setting and will also learn how health care in the community is related to social, cultural, educational, economic, and environmental factors. Problem solving in the clinic setting will focus on realities imposed by limited time, financial and human resources. Students focus on their professional identity formation through a narrative reflection as well as observing the ways in which structural aspects delineate care through site reflections.
Clerkship Schedule
| Monday | Tuesday | Wednesday | Thursday | Friday | |
| Week 1 | Didactics/Aquifer Cases | Didactics/Aquifer Cases | Didactics/Aquifer Cases | Didactics/Aquifer Cases | Didactics/Aquifer Cases |
| Week 2 | Clinic | Clinic | Clinic | Clinic | Clinic |
| Week 3 | Clinic | Clinic | Clinic | Clinic | Clinic |
| Week 4 | Clinic | Clinic/Midpoint check-in with IORs* | Clinic | Clinic | Clinic |
| Week 5 | Clinic | Clinic | Clinic | Clinic | Clinic |
| Week 6 | Clinic | Clinic | Capstone/Self study | Clinic | Clinic |
Other Courses
The Department of Family and Community Medicine offers many elective courses spanning the course of medical school and encompassing undergraduate opportunities. The clinical courses have an emphasis on community-based preceptorships with excellent family physicians.
Two electives are available to non-UC Davis students (marked with ▲).
FAP 444: Advanced Preceptorship in Family Medicine ▲ (3-18 units)
Offered all quarters
The Advanced Preceptorship in Family Medicine is an educational experience in which a medical student spends a block of time with one or more physician preceptors in a family medicine setting. The primary goal of the preceptorship is to develop the student's knowledge and skills with common medical problems. The preceptorship in a community site is also an important means by which the student will see the family physician as a role model and will experience the scope and flavor of family medicine. Available to fourth-year medical students.
FAP 469: Inpatient Acting Internship in Family Medicine ▲ (3-12 units)
Offered all quarters
The goals of the Inpatient Acting Internship rotation are: (1) to experience a typical Family Medicine inpatient ward similar to what you might encounter in practice; (2) to learn to manage common conditions for which Family Medicine patients are hospitalized; (3) to learn from being primarily responsible for decision-making about patient care and management alongside the patient's Family Physician; (4) to practice patient-centered care and effective communication skills in order to understand the patient's psychosocial context and the impact of their illness and the hospitalization on their lives; (5) to develop effective patterns of practice through the appropriate use of evidence-based investigations and treatments, consultations, team resources, and discharge planning; (6) to work with the various team members to learn support services available in the hospital and community that can help manage patients in hospital, facilitate discharge, and maintain them at home. Available to fourth-year medical students.